SURABAYA: A district court here on Thursday sentenced a

SURABAYA: A district court here on Thursday sentenced a
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used by the Bali bombers to make explosives.

Silvester Tendean, who owns a chemical store in the East Java
capital of Surabaya, was found guilty of possessing and selling
two metric tons (2.2 U.S. tons) of potassium chlorate to Amrozi,
a key suspect in the Bali bombings.

Potassium chlorate was used to make explosives in the Oct. 12
nightclub blasts that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists,
on the resort island of Bali.

Tendean is the first person to be tried in connection with the
Bali blasts. Amrozi's trial is expected to begin within weeks in
Bali's capital, Denpasar.

"The defendant has been found ... guilty of possessing,
storing and selling illegal explosives," said Judge Muhammad
Alim.

Tendean had told the court that he did not know the chemical
would be used to make explosives. - AP