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Indonesia's Megawati Condemns Threats Against U.S. Citizens
Tuesday, October 02, 2001
(1:12 PM)
The Associated Press

The U.S. State Department has warned Americans not to travel to Indonesia.

Megawati stops short of supporting U.S. retaliation - Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri meets Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on September 27 at the start of talks in Tokyo. Megawati said she was against all terrorist acts but refrained from giving full support for U.S. retaliation for the September 11 attacks.
Photo Credit: REUTERS / Eriko Sugita.

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- AP
Indonesia's president on Tuesday condemned groups that have threatened Americans in the wake of last month's terror attacks, even as a militant group demanded the U.S. ambassador to be expelled.

Anti-American sentiment has risen sharply in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, since Washington blamed Islamic terrorists for the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.

Thousands of Indonesians have demonstrated and called for a holy war against America if it attacks Afghanistan, which the United States suspects of harboring those responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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