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To: energyplay who wrote (53147)	9/9/2004 3:18:32 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Embassy blast kills 7 in Jakarta By Indonesia correspondent Tim Palmer and agencies Seven people are now reported to have been killed after a blast outside the Australian embassy building in Jakarta this afternoon, but no Australians have been badly hurt. Hospital officials in Jakarta say at least seven people were killed and nearly 100 injured. Indonesian Radio is also reporting around 100 people have been injured. ELMAT COMMENTS: Indonesians have their peculiar way of doing thier thing! Message 20477712 Doctors at Jakarta's Metropolitan Medical Centre, close to the scene of the explosion, said four dead people had been received at their facility and at least 99 injured. Mardiono, a medic at the morgue of Jakarta's Ciptomangunkusumo General Hospital, said three unidentified bodies had also been sent there from the blast scene. All Australian staff working in the embassy in Jakarta have been accounted for but some are reported to have suffered minor injuries. ABC Indonesian correspondent Tim Palmer says embassy guards and police took the brunt of the massive blast. "I saw motorcyclist dead, still on his bike, and a woman apparently waiting to visit the embassy also among the dead," he said. There is enormous damage in the street outside the embassy with every window up to around 15 storeys high in four surrounding office towers shattered. Motor vehicles destroyed in the blast, are still strewn across the street. So massive was the explosion that there is no evidence apart from a water-filled crater of the vehicle that carried a bomb. One Australian embassy official said the bomb must have been high quality, because there is no residue left from the explosive. ABC radio journalist Megan James, who is living in Jakarta, says the blast is fuelling rumours in the expatriate community. She says parents are collecting children from an Australian school to take them to a safe-house, while Indonesian authorities try to control the scene. "There are firemen at the scene, there are emergency services, Indonesian security guards trying to keep people out of the area, but there are thousands of people in the area, the blast blew out everywhere and it would look to be a number of people killed," she said. Witnesses The chairman of the Australia-Indonesia Business Council in Western Australia, Ross Taylor, says he was about two kilometres away from the embassy when he heard the blast. "I heard it in the most dramatic form, I mean it was a very very loud bang and enough of my colleagues around in different locations in Jakarta were aware of it as well, so this is a very powerful bomb," he said. "There would be at least at any one time eight or nine armed police officers and a large military truck that is always maintained at the front of the building, now I understand that truck's gone, I mean literally gone. Megan James says the scenes are horrible. "There are people being pulled out of gutters, there are the remnants of motorbikes in the middle of the street burnt out with the remains of bodies on top of them, there are security guards pulling themselves out of bushes and then collapsing on the sidewalk, it would look that there would be the Marriott bomb toll plus," she said. "People who were nearby reported a 50-metre high smoke plume from that explosion and the sound of that explosion was heard at least in a five kilometre radius, and windows were shaken in a friend of mine's building for instance who lived in the regent department about five kilometres away." "One would assume from that there'll be a number of casualties and the tragedy of this is of course that this is Indonesians that are getting killed in this." Howard Prime Minister John Howard says it is believed a car bomb was responsible for the explosion. Addressing media conference in Melbourne this afternoon, Mr Howard said his information from the Australian Federal Police indicate six people may have died. Mr Howard says all Australian staff have been accounted for and apart from a few minor injuries there have been no deaths or major injuries. He says some local staff are not yet accounted for. Mr Howard says those killed could include some locally based security personnel and passers-by. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is going to Jakarta tonight along with nine bomb experts senior medical officer and a staff counsellor. Mr Howard says he will speak to Mr Latham as soon as possible about the incident and has extended an invitation to the Federal Opposition to send a representative with Mr Downer. Crisis centre The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed there have been no casualties among Australian embassy staff. However a spokesperson says some locals employed at the embasssy have yet to be accounted for. The embassy has been evacuated and a crisis centre set up. Australians are being advised to avoid non essential travel to Jakarta. Any enquiries about relatives or friends there can be directed to the Consular Emergency Centre on 1300 555 135. In other developments: The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) says the Australian embassy has been evacuated and a crisis centre established. (Full Story) Prime Minister John Howard has been advised by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) that at least six people have been killed in the Jakarta bomb blast, but no Australians are among the dead. (Full Story) The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has altered its travel warning for Indonesia after today's blast in Jakarta, saying Australians should defer non-essential travel to the country. (Full Story) The principal of the Australian International School in Jakarta says the school of 450 students will remain open. (Full Story) Related Links: Travel Advice for Indonesia Latest information on the bombing in Jakarta from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

To: energyplay who wrote (53147)	9/9/2004 3:32:05 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<<Guess why Elmatador is out of here June 15th!!>> Message 20185317 Glad I'm not there.

To: energyplay who wrote (53147)	9/9/2004 3:55:03 AM
From: Taikun	Respond to of 74559

Last night on CNBC a European fund manager was talking very positively about CRTs in general and PenGrowth and Canadian Oil Sands in particular.

To: energyplay who wrote (53147)	9/9/2004 5:24:57 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 74559

music, thank you