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Update: 11: 21 pm: On Twitter, Marriott International says "We are currently working to assemble a list of employees and registered guests staying in the hotels," and "As always, the safety and security of our guests and associates is a high priority."
Update: 11:10 pm: CNN's Anderson Cooper's interviewing eyewitness Peter Puomey, who was staying on the 17th floor of the J.W. Marriott. Puomey said he was in his room when "I heard a huge explosion, and the building shook. I went to the window and I looked out on the left-hand side. On the ground floor was a big plume of smoke." Speaking to Cooper from the area outside the Ritz-Carlton, Puomey said security is tight. He had to go through an airport-style metal detector and security sweep to enter the hotel.
ORIGINAL POST: Bomb blasts went off in two luxury hotels that are popular with Americans within minutes of each other in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, according to media reports from BBC, Reuters and CNN.
The blasts struck the Ritz-Carlton and the 30-story J.W. Marriott in the city's central business district, killing at four people believed to be foreigners. The latest Associated Press story says that the blasts killed six and injured 18.
AL QAEDA. FLEXING FOR OBAMA. AFTER ALL: WEAKNESS ALWAYS INVITES ADVENTURISM AND APPEASMENT ALWAYS INCREASES VIOLENCE.
UPDATE; WE PREDICTED THIS ATTACK.
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