A side deal and delay in handing over evidence meant Malaysians Mohammed Farik bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir bin Lep now only have to serve five years in jail, instead of 23.
While no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State has ravaged Mali for eight years. The military junta that seized power in 2020 has been struggling to stem the violence.
fled the scene. they also threw grenades at police. at least two civilians were killed and dozens of people were wounded. our senior international correspondent ivan watson is joining us now live from jakarta. ivan, this is the world s most populous muslim country. the attacks seem to be aimed at westerners. what is the very latest? that s right, it was an attack that started with a suicide bomb detonated in a starbu starbucks. it s about 150 feet from where i m standing right now in a very busy intersection, a popular shopping mall that normally right now would be open 24 hours, the fast food restaurants. it s all quiet right now after this attack. we then hear that two of the attackers tried to grab two people and pull them out into the street. believe they tried to target foreigners and kill them. and then there was another group of attackers on motorcycles who tried to attack a very nearby
catastrophic bombings that were linked to al qaeda that indonesia experienced a decade ago. it looks like they were going after these western targets like a starbucks, you say fast food restaurants, i understand a burger king was not very far away. in the statement that isis released, did they specifically say they were hitting western targets in jakarta? they singled out that they re trying to target what they call the crusader alliance. and that s one of the terms that they used to refer to basically westerners, christians, infidels and so on. now, it s important to keep this in context. indonesia was battling in the last decade, in the decade after 9/11, an al qaeda linked movement jemaah islamiyah that carried out some pretty devastating attacks that bali that killed hundreds of people at the start of the decade. 2009 was the last significant attack that was carried out by this movement.
neighboring countries including syria and also escalating these operations. you re seeing them at a clip now with the frequency we didn t see in the aftermath after 9/11 or in the last decade and a half going after al qaeda so this is quite dangerous. there are hundreds, i m told, hundreds of indonesians who have gone to syria and to iraq for that matter to work with isis, right? absolutely. you know, look, indonesia is one of the most pluralistic, you know, moderate muslim countries. but it has a tradition of, you know, accepting and tolerating minority groups, buddhists, hindus, you name it. you re seeing now this pushback in indonesian society. another element to this. both al qaeda and zarqawi had targeted australia, indonesian, we mentioned the bali attacks in 2002. the reason for this, the justification was australia had helped liberate east timor from indonesian colonism.