Terrorist Plot to Kill Obama

(Jakarta, Indonesia) Probing last month's hotel bombings, investigators were able to expose a plot by a group called the Indonesian Islamic State to kill President Obama in November during a planned visit.

Authorities were also probing whether the suicide bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels on July 17 received overseas funding from a group linked to Al Qaeda, said Dynno Chressbon, an intelligence analyst at the Center for Intelligence and National Security who is close to the police investigations.

He said two of four wanted suspects — Ario Sudarso and Mohamad Syahrir — who police released pictures of on Wednesday had been prepared as snipers for an attack on Obama.

“For Obama, they planned to attack the convoy around the airport using MK-IIIs,” he said, referring to a type of Russian-made sniper rifle that he said was used by the Taliban in Afghanistan and also in Muslim conflict areas in the Philippines. [...]

Obama has been widely expected to include a stopover in the world’s most populous Muslim nation when he attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore in November.

The Indonesian Islamic State terrorists are supported by the Jemaah Islamiah group led by Noordin Mohammad Top.