Court acquits bombing suspect<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The East Jakarta District Court has acquitted an
\nAcehnese student, who earlier faced a possible 15-year prison
\nsentence for his alleged role in the bombing of the Jakarta Stock
\nExchange building.<\/p>\n
Presiding judge Mansyur Nasution said in the verdict announced
\non Friday that there was no strong evidence proving that Iswadi
\nH. Jamil had acted as a middleman in the purchase of 43 bars of
\nTNT (trinitrotuluene) that was later used in the JSX building
\nbombing.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Agus Widodo had earlier told the court that Iswadi
\nbought the explosives at a price of Rp 21.5 million for Corp.
\nIbrahim Hasan, who then gave the defendant Rp 400,000 for his
\nhelp. Iswadi bought the explosives from Edi Wanda, following
\nadvice from Muklis and Rani, according to the prosecutor.<\/p>\n
Ibrahim, Edi, Muklis and Rani, however, are all still at
\nlarge.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the South Jakarta District Court sentenced Iswadi
\nto seven years in jail for his involvement in a grenade explosion
\nat the Malaysian Embassy.<\/p>\n
Iswadi was one of eight people who were tried in relation to
\nthe JSX bombing in September 2000, and in the blast at the
\nMalaysian Embassy in August last year.<\/p>",
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