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        "msgid": "singapore-says-disappointed-by-baasyir-verdict-1447899208",
        "date": "2003-09-24 00:00:00",
        "title": "Singapore says disappointed by Ba'asyir verdict ",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Singapore says disappointed by Ba'asyir verdict Reuters Singapore Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Tuesday he was disappointed by a Jakarta court's four-year jail term for an Islamic cleric suspected of heading a militant Southeast Asian militant network. \"It's not the result which we would like to see, but it's the result which we've got to accept,\" Goh told British Broadcasting Corp. in an interview.",
        "content": "<p>Singapore says disappointed by Ba'asyir verdict<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<br>\nSingapore<\/p>\n<p>Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Tuesday he was <br>\ndisappointed by a Jakarta court's four-year jail term for an <br>\nIslamic cleric suspected of heading a militant Southeast Asian <br>\nmilitant network.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's not the result which we would like to see, but it's the <br>\nresult which we've got to accept,\" Goh told British Broadcasting <br>\nCorp. in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian prosecutors are appealing the verdict on Muslim <br>\ncleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, whose treason sentence this month was <br>\nseen as too lenient in much of Asia and the West.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutors failed to prove Ba'asyir was the emir, or <br>\nspiritual leader, of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), a militant group <br>\nblamed for the Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mainly <br>\nAustralians, last October.<\/p>\n<p>\"In Singapore, based on the evidence that we have, we will <br>\nbelieve that he is the head of Jamaah Islamiyah,\" Goh said. <br>\n\"That's the intelligence that we have from the people arrested in <br>\nSingapore.\"<\/p>\n<p>Singapore was among the first nations to identify the threat <br>\nposed by Jamaah Islamiyah. Thirty-one people associated with JI <br>\nare held now in Singapore suspected of planning to blow up the <br>\nU.S. embassy and other Western targets in the city state.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors had demanded the prominent cleric be jailed for 15 <br>\nyears. Many saw this as tantamount to a life sentence for the 65-<br>\nyear-old Ba'asyir, who has suffered from poor health.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the Jakarta court came up with the wrong result <br>\nin its Sept. 2 decision, Goh said: \"I would say the result is <br>\nfairly undecided.\"<\/p>\n<p>A Singapore government white paper this year said Ba'asyir <br>\ntook over leadership of the group in 1999. Singapore has also <br>\nlinked JI to the al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden, blamed for <br>\nSept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.<\/p>",
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