Trial against 'Time' adjourned<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: The South Jakarta district court adjourned for more
\nthan two months on Tuesday a defamation lawsuit filed by Muslim
\ncleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir against U.S. magazine Time and its
\njournalists after the accused failed to show up.<\/p>\n
There was no explanation for their absence.<\/p>\n
\"The trial is adjourned until March 11 to give a chance to the
\naccused to attend the court hearing,\" said member judge Zainal
\nAbidin on behalf of presiding Judge Lalu Mariyun.<\/p>\n
Ba'asyir filed a defamation suit on Oct. 16 against Time
\nmagazine, its editor Karl Taro Greenfeld, writer Romesh Ratnesar
\nand reporter Jason Tedjasukmana for an article in its Sept. 23,
\n2002 issue.<\/p>\n
Time alleged that Ba'asyir, 64, believed to be the spiritual
\nleader of regional terrorist network Jamaah Islamiyah (JI),
\nauthorized Omar Al Faruq to use JI operatives and resources to
\nattack the U.S. embassy in Singapore. Al Faruq, according to
\nTime, also said that Ba'asyir was behind the 1999 bombing of
\nJakarta's largest mosque to provoke religious conflict.<\/p>\n
It also wrote: \"Al-Faruq told the CIA that Ba'asyir was just
\nas eager to work with Al-Qaeda, even dispatching his aides to
\nprocure weapons and explosives for Al-Faruq and his cronies.\"<\/p>\n
Ba'asyir had denied the report's contents, saying he was
\nslandered. --JP<\/p>",
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