Malaysian accomplice gets 3 years<\/p>\n
Urip Hudiono, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The South Jakarta District Court sentenced Samsul Bahri bin
\nHusein, alias Farhan, on Thursday to three years in prison for
\nhis role in the Aug. 5, 2003, Marriott hotel bombing that killed
\n12 people and injured 47 others.<\/p>\n
The court found the 37-year-old Malaysian guilty of violating
\nArticle 13(c) of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law No. 1\/2002
\n-- as amended by Law No. 15\/2003 on terrorism -- for facilitating
\nan act of terrorism.<\/p>\n
"The defendant was proven to have assisted in the bombing
\nthrough his concealing of information about the group's
\nactivities, which eventually lead to the bombing," presiding
\njudge Ariansyah B. Dali said in the verdict.<\/p>\n
The court also found the defendant guilty of violating Article
\n266 of the Criminal Code for asking another party to include
\nfalse information in state documents, through the forgery of
\nidentification cards using his alias Farhan.<\/p>\n
In addition, the defendant, who is a member of the Southeast
\nAsian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), was also found
\nguilty of illegally entering and residing in the country, which
\nis a violation of Article 53 of Law No. 9\/1992 on immigration.<\/p>\n
The court, however, dismissed charges that the defendant was
\ndirectly involved in the plotting and execution of the bombing,
\nciting a lack of evidence, even though witnesses testified that
\nthe tech-savvy, Afghanistan-trained defendant had coached the
\nattackers on how to assemble bombs.<\/p>\n
When asked by judge Ariansyah, the defendant said he would
\naccept the verdict. Bahri has been in custody since September
\nlast year, which will count toward his three-year sentence. This
\nmeans he has just over two more years to serve.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Ramos Hutapea also said he accepted the verdict,
\nalthough it was more lenient than the five years he had been
\nseeking.<\/p>\n
Bahri is the seventh person sentenced for the Marriott
\nbombing. Just this month, Samhuri was sentenced to three years in
\nprison for attending JI meetings that were held to plot the
\nattack, while Mohammad Solihin and Heru Setyanto were each
\nsentenced to seven years in prison for storing and transporting
\nthe explosives used in the bombing.<\/p>\n
In June, Malikul Zurkoni was sentenced to three years in
\nprison, also for storing explosives, while Slamet Widodo and
\nLutfi Fadilah were each sentenced to three years in prison for
\nfailing to notify authorities of the planned attack.<\/p>\n
In May, Muhammad Rais was sentenced to seven years in prison
\nfor helping the two main suspects in the bombing -- Azahari and
\nNoordin M. Top -- to obtain, store and transport the explosives.<\/p>\n
Another suspect, Edi Suprapto, is awaiting his sentence, which
\nis expected to be announced next week. Prosecutors in the case
\nasked for a 10-year prison term for the defendant.<\/p>",
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