Posted on 03/02/2005 10:17:37 PM PST by Crackingham
The accused leader of an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group was sentenced to 30 months in jail by an Indonesian court on Thursday for conspiracy charges related to the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing that killed 202 people, including seven Americans.
Abu Bakar Bashir was cleared of more serious charges that he ordered the bombing, which was aimed at foreign tourists and also killed 88 Australians. He was also cleared of charges related to the 2003 bombing of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta that killed 12 and charges he incited his followers to launch terrorist attacks.
"Neither the defense witnesses nor the prosecutors' witnesses said that the defendant has planned or provoked other people to commit the bombings," the court said in its verdict.
"The perpetrators of the Marriott bombings admitted they did that on their own will," it said. "Therefore the defendant has to be acquitted from primary charges."
Australia and the United States consider Bashir to be the spiritual head of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group. Intelligence officials say the group has cells across Southeast Asia.
The five-judge panel said that Bashir, who has been in jail since April, would get credit for time served and could be freed before the end of 2006.
Hey it always helps when you get a Clinton appointee from the San Francisco area as a judge
30 months? 30 years would be too light.
This sentence is okay with me as long as he serves his 30 months in general population in a jail in the heart of Texas.
let's hope something 'happens' to the old coot while in the slam , alot of Indonesian Christians from Ambon Is. and elsewhere hate his bloody guts...
I hope all the American and Australian parents who stupidly sent their kids lunch money down the rathole of Tsunamigate feel better now. These are our enemies. Let there be no doubt about it.
So are the Acehnese. The ordinary people of Aceh are worlds away from the insanity of somebody like Abu Bakr Bashir, who is after all, not a true Indonesian.
Abu Bakr Bashir is a hated Wahabbi Yemeni propagandist who flaunts his contempt of traditional Javanese (and by extension Indonesian) values.
The man is undeniably clever, and more importantly, he is old. Hopefully he will die in prison. If not, we can hope that he will die painfully soon after his release at the end of 2006.
What a bunch of crap. This sentence is a signal to terrorists that the Indonesians are very terror-friendly. I wonder if the son-of-a-bitch will get credit for time served?
Whether he dies in prison isn't important. He shouldn't be allowed two steps from the exit before he is hit smack between the eyes with a dose of his own medicine.
This is why the CIA needs covert field operators to go and whack this guy when he gets out. 007 where are you?
Yes, he WILL get credit for time served, and I too indeed hope somebody whacks the perverted maggot the moment he steps into the light of day, if not before.
I'd do it myself if I could.
Whack, is right!
Gee, thirty whole months. I'm sure that makes all those Aussie families feel that justice has been served, lightly, in the Muslim country of Indonesia. Well, I guess they could have given him a reward for killing infidels, so I guess this is a tiny concession.
202 innocent Human Beings slaughtered and 30 months prison time?Am i missing something?
Im surprised he got such a harsh sentence, after all he only killed infidels!!!
Mmmm..IIRC, a certain RAT or two gutted our CIA infiltration type folks on the ground worldwide.
Yeah, this really ought to send a message -(sarcasm)-
NO TV for a week....now go to your room.....
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