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Curfew in northern Nigeria : Protesters attack US Embassy in Jakarta

JAKARTA: Demonstrators angry at depictions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) attacked the US embassy in Jakarta on Sunday, beating on the gate with sticks and pelting the building with tomatoes, eggs and stones.

More than 200 white-clad members of Indonesia’s militant Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) were protesting over Danish cartoons lampooning the Prophet (pbuh) as well as his depiction in a sculpture at the US Supreme Court in Washington which shows him holding a Koran in one hand and a sword in the other.

Maksuni, an FPI deputy leader, told reporters after the protests: “This is not the last warning. This is only the beginning. There will be bigger actions against them.”

An embassy statement read to Reuters by a spokesman said the US government deplored the violence, and believed the event “was staged for television by a small group which seeks to disrupt the relationship between the US and Indonesia”.

Troops enforced a curfew in parts of northern Nigeria on Sunday after protests over the cartoons triggered riots in two cities that left 16 people dead and 11 churches burned. agencies

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