Two more Makassar bombers jailed<\/p>\n
Andi Hajramurni, The Jakarta Post, Makassar, South Sulawesi<\/p>\n
The Makassar District Court in South Sulawesi sentenced on Monday
\ntwo accomplices of last year's bombing in the city, that killed
\nthree people, to three-and-half-years in prison.<\/p>\n
The panel of judges found the defendants guilty of assisting
\nconvicted-bomber Anton bin Labasse, while he was a fugitive.
\nAnton had earlier been imprisoned for eight years by the same
\ncourt.<\/p>\n
Judge Muhammad Adnan, who presided over the trial, said both
\nSyaifullah Amir, alias Imam Nawawi, and Muhammad Amir, alias
\nExel, had helped Anton evade the police at their house in Pare-
\npare, about 150 kilometers south of Makassar.<\/p>\n
Anton had been in a state of panic, following the arrest of
\nother perpetrators of the attack on a U.S.-franchised McDonald
\nfast food outlet on Dec. 5, 2002.<\/p>\n
The blast killed three people, including a suspected bomber,
\nand injured 15 others.<\/p>\n
A nearby car dealership, owned by Coordinating Minister for
\nPeople's Welfare Jusuf Kalla, had been bombed on the same day.<\/p>\n
"Anton even entrusted an address book, a savings book and a
\ncellular phone to the two defendants," Adnan said.<\/p>\n
"Instead of informing the police of Anton's whereabouts, the
\ndefendants had planned to move him to a safer place in Mangkutana
\narea in Pare-pare," he added.<\/p>\n
Adnan explained that their actions were a violation of Article
\n13 of Government Regulation in lieu of Law No. 1\/2003 and Law No.
\n15\/2003 on terrorism.<\/p>\n
Upon hearing their verdicts, both Syaifullah and Amir said
\nthey would appeal, denying that they had known Anton was wanted
\nby the police.<\/p>\n
The sentence was more lenient than the seven years in prison
\nsought by prosecutors for the defendants, who, like Anton, were
\nallegedly members of Laskar Jundullah, a little known militant
\ngroup.<\/p>\n
Police earlier said that some of the suspects had ties with
\nthe regional Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist network, which was
\nblamed for the Bali bombings on Oct. 12 last year, in which 202
\npeople were killed.<\/p>\n
The court had earlier sentenced 13 other defendants in the
\nMakassar bombing case to between two years and 20 years in
\nprison.<\/p>",
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