Marriott accomplices get 3 years in prison<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The South Jakarta District Court sentenced two accomplices of the
\nHotel Marriott bombing on Tuesday to three years in prison
\nrespectively for withholding information on an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n
Presiding judge Ridwantoro said the prosecution had failed to
\nprove that defendant Slamet Widodo alias Pepeng was directly
\ninvolved in executing the bombing on August last year, in which
\n12 people were killed and 147 others injured.<\/p>\n
The victims, mostly Indonesians, included six drivers and a
\nDutch banker.<\/p>\n
\"The defendant is guilty of withholding information on a
\nplanned terrorist attack,\" the judge said in the verdict.<\/p>\n
In a separate trial at the same court, presiding judge Ahmad
\nSobari sentenced Lutfi Fadilah alias Zubair to three years in
\nprison, also for withholding information.<\/p>\n
The sentence is more lenient than the prosecutors' demand of
\n10 years imprisonment.<\/p>\n
Both panels of judges considered the defendants' cooperative,
\ncourteous approaches as a mitigating factor.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors charged them with violating Government Regulation
\nin lieu of law (Perpu) No. 1\/2002 rectified by Law No. 13\/2003 on
\nterrorism.<\/p>\n
The law carries the maximum penalty of death.<\/p>\n
Last month, the same court sentenced Muhammad Rais to seven
\nyears in prison for helping the two main suspects, who are still
\nat large, Dr. Azahari bin Husin and Noordin M. Top, to gather,
\nstore and transport the materials that caused the explosion.<\/p>\n
The judges also found Rais, who has six aliases, including Edi
\nIndra, guilty of forging an identity card to elude capture.<\/p>\n
The first Marriott bombing suspect convicted was Sardona
\nSiliwangi, who was sentenced in February to 10 years in prison by
\nthe Bengkulu District Court. Sardona was found guilty of storing
\nthe explosive materials that were later brought to Jakarta.<\/p>",
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