Man gets 10 years for embassy bombing<\/p>\n
Agencies, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The last of six Muslim militants accused in the 2004 suicide
\nbombing at the Australian Embassy was sentenced on Thursday to 10
\nyears in prison for helping the alleged masterminds carry out the
\nattack.<\/p>\n
Syaiful Bahri, alias Apuy, said he would appeal the verdict.
\nThe sentence was in line with prosecutors' recommendations.<\/p>\n
The South Jakarta District Court found him guilty of violating
\nantiterrorism laws in the suicide bombing last September that
\nleft 11 people dead and more than 180 injured in the business
\ndistrict of Kuningan, South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
"The defendant is legally and convincingly guilty of violating
\nantiterror laws by helping others commit acts of terrorism,"
\nchief judge Sutjahyo Padmo said when reading out the verdict.<\/p>\n
The judge said Bahri, 26, was guilty of "providing assistance"
\nto Malaysians Azahari bin Husin and Noordin M. Top, who are both
\nwanted over the Sept. 9, 2004 attack.<\/p>\n
Padmo said evidence and testimonies proved that Bahri helped
\nAzahari and Noordin find a safe house, as well as helped
\npurchase, store and prepare materials for the bomb.<\/p>\n
The defendant also helped load the 30 plastic containers of
\nexplosives into a small van, which exploded just outside the
\nembassy.<\/p>\n
The two Malaysian fugitives, Azahari and Noordin, are accused
\nof playing key roles for the al-Qaeda-linked regional terrorist
\ngroup Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) in a string of terror attacks in
\nIndonesia, including the Australian Embassy bombing.<\/p>\n
The two main suspects were also blamed for the October 2002
\nBali bombings, which left 202 people dead -- mostly foreign
\ntourists, and the August 2003 J.W. Marriott Hotel blast in
\nJakarta, in which 12 people were killed.<\/p>\n
Bahri was the last of six Indonesians to have faced trial over
\nthe suicide car bombing outside the heavily fortified embassy.<\/p>\n
Two other suspects, Achmad Hasan and Iwan Darmawan Mutho alias
\nRois, have been sentenced to death, while three others have
\nalready been given sentences ranging from 42 months to seven
\nyears' imprisonment over the attack.<\/p>\n
Judges ruled there was enough evidence to convict Rois because
\nhe told police that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had funded
\nthe attack.<\/p>",
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