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November 23, 2009 Another Attack Against Foreigners in Aceh After Gunmen Shoot at American Academics' House Gunmen fired at the home of two American academics in the Indonesian province of Aceh on Monday, the latest in a string of attacks directed against foreigners in the region, police said. No one was injured in the attack on the home of Michelle Ahmad and Sarah Willis in the provincial capital Banda Aceh at around 5:45 am, police and witnesses said. "I heard about six gunshots," Ahmad said. "We woke up and sprawled on the floor. A few minutes later, I called another friend... and we called the police." Police intelligence chief Bambang Soetjahjo said the motive for the attack was unknown. He said it was not clear if it was connected to a recent spate of shootings targeting Westerners in the province, a deeply Islamic and ethnically distinct part of Indonesia which is recovering from a bitter separatist war. "We don't know the motive and who did it and if it's connected to previous incidents," Soetjahjo said. Police said two shots hit the house's walls and one hit the roof. The attack comes less than a week after motorcycle riding gunmen fired on the home of the European Union's local representative, a British national, in the deeply Islamic province. The local representative of the German Branch of the Red Cross was also wounded in a shooting attack earlier this month, forcing the medical relief agency to briefly suspend its operations in Aceh. No one has claimed responsibility for the shootings. Agence France Presse Related articles 36,000 Hectares of Aceh's Leuser Ecosystem Lost to Logging 9:54 PM 11/11/2009 Aceh Shariah Police Chase the 'Immoral' 6:07 PM 08/11/2009 Civic Groups Call on Indonesia to Annul Aceh Stoning Bylaw 10:43 PM 05/11/2009 Protest Over Ban on Tight Pants in Aceh 10:39 PM 29/10/2009 West Aceh to Ban 'Tight' Trousers, Shorts 4:25 PM 27/10/2009
