A US war court has charged an Indonesian detainee at Guantánamo Bay in connection with the 2002 bombing in Bali that marked Indonesia’s deadliest terror strike, according to court documents obtained by the Associated Press.  The detainee known as Hambali also was charged in connection with an attack on the JW Marriott in Jakarta in 2003. According to rules of the US military commission, a military court will later decide whether a trial will be held.

The 12 October 2002 Bali resort island attacks killed 202 people including 88 Australians and seven Americans. A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a nightclub jammed with tourists at a popular beach, killing many instantly and forcing others to run outside. Another suicide bomber detonated a massive bomb loaded in a car parked on the street in front of two clubs.

In the second bombing on 5 August 2003 the JW Marriott Hotel was targeted because the building was conducive to the type of bomb being constructed. The perpetrators believed there would be a large American presence at the hotel and they “believed it would have the biggest overall impact”, the charging documents said. The attack killed 12 people and wounded 150. Hambali was captured in Bangkok in 2003, in a joint operation by the CIA and Thai police.(guardian)…[+]

A black St Louis police officer who was off duty when he heard a commotion near his home and tried to help fellow officers arrest three black suspects was shot by a white officer who did not recognize him, police said. A white officer who had just arrived on the scene of a suspected crime on Wednesday night saw the off-duty black officer walking toward other officers and, “fearing for his safety”, shot the officer in the arm, a police statement said. The wounded officer, who is 38 years old and has been with the department 11 years, was taken to a hospital and later released. The incident began with a report of a stolen vehicle. Police followed the vehicle and the suspects inside opened fire at officers’ vehicles until they crashed the vehicle believed to be stolen. The suspects got out of their vehicle and ran. The off-duty officer heard the commotion from his home nearby and rushed to the scene with his department-issued weapon. Two officers ordered the off-duty officer to the ground, but then recognized him and told him to stand up and walk toward them. As he was doing so, another officer arrived and “apparently not recognizing” him, shot the off-duty officer, police said.(guardian)…[+]

The Franco-Swiss journalist Veronique Robert has died in hospital in Paris after being wounded in an explosion in Mosul earlier this week. She was caught up in a mine explosion in the Iraqi city that killed the Iraqi journalist Bakhtiyar Haddad and the French journalist Stephane Villeneuve. Samuel Foley, who works for Le Figaro, suffered injuries to his face and arm. Robert, 54, underwent surgery in Iraq before being transferred on Friday to Percy hospital in south-west Paris. She was an experienced conflict reporter and one of four people accompanying Iraqi special forces trying to retake Mosul from Islamic State. Robert and Villeneuve were working on a report for the French weekly television programme Envoyé Spécial.(guardian)…[+]