ANOTHER i don't believe in hell

BUT if there is one, the people responsible for this WILL BURN


Indonesian Christians Terrified After Children Beheaded

POSTED: 7:16 am EST November 1, 2005

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesian troops were on high alert Monday, bracing for a new cycle of sectarian violence in a province where machete-wielding assailants beheaded three Christian schoolgirls and seriously wounded a fourth.

Religious leaders called on their followers to remain calm and to refrain from revenge attacks, reminding them that investigators have yet to determine who was behind Saturday's grisly murders in Central Sulawesi province.

Suspicion has fallen, however, on Islamic militants responsible for a series of attacks on Christians since a peace deal in 2002 ended a bloody conflict that killed as many as 1,000 people from both communities.

National police spokesman Maj. Gen. Aryanto Budihardjo said there were no key suspects in the killings, and that only six people have been questioned so far -- among them the wounded teenager who was being kept under close watch at a police hospital.

He blamed the attacks on "terrorists" seeking to destabilize the province "just as relations between Muslim and Christian communities were improving," and said the perpetrators should not be allowed to plunge the region back into violence.

The attack, which occurred days before the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, has dominated national TV reports and been splashed across the front pages of newspapers.

Many people fear Muslims, flocking to outdoor markets and shops to prepare for the celebration marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, could be the target of Christian retaliatory acts.

Preparing for the worst, the government deployed more than 1,500 soldiers and police armed with assault rifles across Central Sulawesi Monday, the large majority of them in the predominantly Muslim town of Poso.

Muslim leaders condemned the weekend killings, but cautioned Monday it was too early to lay blame.

"Until authorities arrest the killers and disclose the motive, it's too early to say this attack was religiously motivated," said Syafi'i Ma'arif, leader of Indonesia's second-largest nonpolitical Muslim group Muhammadiyah...........