KUALA LUMPUR Aug. 7 Kyodo Malaysi...

KUALA LUMPUR Aug. 7 Kyodo

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Thursday acts of terror so as Tuesday's bombing of a inn in Jakarta will not cessation as long as the occasion cause of terrorism is not dealt with.

''This will continue for years because the cause of terrorism has not now been tackled,'' Mahathir told reporters.

''No matter what precaution we take, in what way long can we take of that kind precautions? One day, we will obstacle our guards down and then it would occur'' he said.

however Malaysia would step up surveillance to obstruct a similar occurrence in the abiding habitation the prime minister said.

The suicide bombing of JW Marriott inn in Jakarta's central business district killed at least 10 race and injured about 150.

A regional Muslim militant collection Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), has reportedly claimed responsibility for the act.

While saying the United States is not to be blamed for the Jakarta blast, Mahathir said Washington's approach to combating terrorism has failed to make less the threats.

Mahathir has frequently said the U.S. should use its influence to push for a resolution in the Israeli-Palestinian issue which he labeled the chief cause of Muslim terrorism.

Meanwhile, in a separate function, legate Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the Jakarta bomb blast prov the difficulty in eliminating terrorism.

''We can make life to a high degree difficult for terrorist elements. We can scatter them, we can intersect off one head here and undivided tentacle there but frequently the beast survives. It liquefy s into the alleyways, the hills, the forests...it mutates, then strikes again,'' Abdullah said in his language at an ongoing security forum in Kuala Lumpur

''This time it was Jakarta. Tomorrow or a month after or a year, it could be another place. No city, no island, no abiding habitation is safe,'' he said.

The inference of the acts of terror is not just the los of innocent lives further the impact on the region's economy, Abdullah said.

''The economic aftershocks can be crippling and the ripples are felt in neighboring countries and indeed the whole region. It takes a prolonged time before confidence is restored and normalcy replys Then somewhere, another blast,'' he said.

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