Jakarta August 06. 2003 Indonesia

A suspected suicide bombing at a Marriott Hotel created lunchtime carnage in Jakarta's business district the sixth of august 2003, killing 13 people and wounding 149, setting cars afire and scattering glass shards for blocks in a bloody reminder of the continuing threat of terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation. The blast came two days before a verdict in the trial of a key suspect in the Bali nightclub bombings last Oct. 12 that killed 202 people, many of them foreigners. A Dutch banker was among the dead and at least 10 foreigners, including two Americans, were reported injured. The attack occurred on the first day of testimony in another bombing case by the alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, which has been blamed for the Bali bombings. Authorities have linked the group to al-Qaida and say it hopes to create an Islamic state across Southeast Asia. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the Marriott bombing. Photographed 20 April 2005.

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