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SECURITY forces are on high alert as Indonesia prepares to execute the three Islamists convicted over the 2002 bombings. But local survivors and foreign visitors are united in their determination not to dwell on the October night when 202 people, mostly tourists including 88 Australians, were killed when bombs ripped through packed bars. And the overwhelming feeling on the mainly Hindu island of temples, rice paddies and tropical beaches is that the government should not wait another day before standing the bombers before a firing squad. "The execution will deliver a message that the government is serious about upholding the...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Lawyers for three Islamic militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings lodged a legal challenge on Wednesday over Indonesia's method of executing convicts by firing squad, calling it inhumane. The three men -- Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Mukhlas, also known as Ali Gufron -- face a firing squad for their roles in the nightclub bombings on the island of Bali that killed 202 people. "We believe that execution by way of a gunfire is inhumane. It is for these reasons that the defense attorneys are applying to challenge the legislation," said lawyer Wirawan Adnan, adding...

Three Indonesian Muslim militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings have reaffirmed their readiness to die, provided the execution is done in accordance to the Islamic laws. Their lawyers have told Antara news agency the planned execution will only go ahead if the Supreme Court denies their third legal review; the latest attempt to stall their executions. The three men, Ali Ghufron, alias Muhklas, his younger brother Amrozi and Imam Samudra, are currently waiting for the legal decision. Indonesia's Supreme Court turned down the three men's final appeal in March 2004, and rejected a similar request for a...

American School Books Redefine 'Jihad' to Exclude Violence -- Where is Media? By Warner Todd Huston | June 8, 2008 - 21:49 ET In yet another example of why the west could be too weak to fight the sort of global terrorism that takes the form of Islamofascism, a textbook monitoring group is charging that American textbooks have been cleansed of mentioning the violence inherent in the Islamic "Jihad." Now, our children will not be taught what "Jihad" truly means, nor that it has been used as an excuse to kill their fellow citizens because our schools have sanitized Islam...

Bali bombing cleric attacks western tourists By Nick Squires in Sydney Last Updated: 1:56am GMT 25/03/2008 Western tourists in Indonesia are "maggots, snakes and worms" who should be beaten up, the alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings has told hardline Islamic followers. Abu Bakar Bashir, the cleric who was convicted of conspiracy over the Bali bombings but later cleared and released from prison after 26 months, said the island resort had been overrun by scantily-clad tourists who deserved to be attacked for their immorality. "Worms, snakes, maggots... those are animals that crawl. Take a look at Bali... those infidel...

THREE Bali bombers on death row over the 2002 bombings could soon be executed after a dramatic end to their final appeal today. Their lawyer Fahmi Bachmid today withdrew from their last-ditch legal appeal, bringing it to an abrupt end. Outside court, Chief Judge Ida Bagus Putu Madeg said the judges would now treat the appeal, known as a judicial review, as if it had "never existed". "With this, whatever happened in the previous hearings is considered to not exist," Madeg told AAP after the hearing for convicted terrorist Imam Samudra. "We will not convey this (case) to the Supreme...

(Updated 8:30 a.m.) A body believed to be that of Indonesian terrorist leader Dulmatin, wanted for the October 2002 Bali bombings, was recovered Monday afternoon by a joint military team in Tawi-Tawi province. Intelligence reports said the body was found 1:30 p.m. at the vicinity of Sitio Salisit in Balimbing village, Panglima Sugala town in Tawi-Tawi. "(The) said corpse was jointly identified by informants with notable wounds in the head, chest and right foot to include clothing in physical characteristics matched with previous revelations," the report said. The body was exhumed for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing for confirmation. Reached for...

Today is Australia Day. And I believe it is right to acknowledge some Australian heroism from this War on Terror. On October 2003, at Bali, Indonesia, Islamist terrorists detonated a number of bombs in an attempt to kill innocent victims. 202 people were killed. 88 of these were Australians. This makes it, by far, the greatest terrorist atrocity in Australia's history - and it ranks quite highly on the overall list. We remember the dead, but for some reason, in my opinion at least, we haven't really remembered the heroes of that day. While, by no means, all those heroes...

A POLICE officer awarded a medal for helping the injured in the aftermath of the Bali terrorist attack is selling it, reportedly because it brings back bad memories. Perth Senior Constable Tim Britten was taking leave in Bali while working with the UN in East Timor when the Sari Club was bombed on October 12, 2002. Sen-Constable Britten was burnt while rescuing victims after the blast in the Kuta night club district. A WA police spokesman said today that Sen-Constable Britten was on annual leave and did not want to speak to the media. However, it is understood he wants...

THE three Bali bombers on death row say they are ready to die and will not be asking for a pardon. They have also expressed delight at the controversy surrounding their impending executions, saying the more pain they cause, the greater their reward in heaven. "I'm very happy, especially after hearing that John Howard is very angry with us," Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, the so-called smiling assassin, said yesterday at the island prison where he is held. "The more he is angry, the more I will get rewards from God, right? "The more I make infidels angry, the more I will...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Three Indonesian militants on death row for their involvement in planning the Bali bombings five years ago said on Saturday they were ready to die and would not seek a presidential pardon. Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Mukhlas, also known as Ali Gufron, were sentenced to death for the October 12, 2002 resort island bombings in which over 200 people died. They face execution by a firing squad after the country's top court rejected their appeal. "Clemency is not from Islamic law. I have been living as a Muslim and will die as a Muslim," state news agency...

CANDICE Buchan was dancing and having an "awesome time" with friends when a series of bomb blasts ripped through Bali's Sari club, killing both her parents. After being left an orphan at the age of 15, she spoke publicly for the first time today about the death of her mum and dad Gerardine and Stephen in the 2002 Bali bombings. "I still remember being in the Sari Club that night for (a friend's) birthday with a big group of us having an awesome time," Ms Buchan, now 20, told a ceremony at Coogee in Sydney to mark the fifth anniversary...

LABOR yesterday attacked John Howard for supporting the death penalty for the Bali bombers as it launched a campaign to stop all executions in Asia. Four days before the fifth anniversary of the first Bali bombing, which killed 202 people including 88 Australians, Labor pledged its leadership would speak out "consistently" against the death penalty, whether for terrorists or Australian drug smugglers. Labor has thrown the death penalty in Asia into the election campaign. Its push also comes as the Bali bombers and the Australian "Bali nine" heroin smugglers go through the final stages of their appeals on death sentences....

The Supreme Court has rejected appeals to have their death sentences commuted by all three men convicted over the 2002 Bali bombing. The court announced Monday it had decided not to overturn the capital punishment handed down by a lower court to Imam Samudra and Ali Gufron, also known as Muklas. Amrozi, who is also on death row, had his plea for a case review refused on Sept. 10. "They all have exhausted all the legal avenues for a reprieve," said Supreme Court spokesman Nurhadi, as quoted by detik.com. The three men have been on death row since being captured...

To be a "good" Muslim References -  'Palestinian' child abuse -  Evil 'Joy' -  'Blessing' Hitler -  Mourning the wicked -  Australia - Muslim land -  Jihad on all Buddhists -  Spain - Muslim land -  Europe - Muslim land -  Arabs DON'T care about 'Palestinians' -  72 virgins - Loyalty -  'Pallywood' -  (use of) Ambulances for terror -  (use of) Women for terror -  Human Shields -  Middle east background -  September 11 terror plot on London -  Myth on: 'Terrorists are desperate' -  Beheadings -  Ilan Halimi [an example of monsterous wild prolonged torture motivated by hate only] -  Muslims attacking Jews in France -  Ahmadinejad ' Islamic Hitler' -  Cutting -  'Honor killing' -  Jews & Christians as "Apes & Pigs"? - ...

Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. on Thursday confirmed reports that a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) operative wanted for the 2002 deadly bombing in Bali, Indonesia was injured in an encounter with Army troops last August 9 in Sulu province. Esperon said the military has received reliable information confirming that Indonesian terror suspect Dulmatin sustained injuries after fighting alongside Abu Sayyaf members against government troops in Maimbung town. Aside from Dulmatin, the military also believes that Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Doc Abu was wounded while his son was killed in the encounter. Dulmatin is a 32-year-old Indonesian electronics expert suspected...

To be a "good" Muslim References 'Palestinian' child abuse -  Evil 'Joy' -  Australia - Muslim land -  Spain - Muslim land -  Europe - Muslim land -  Arabs DON'T care about 'Palestinians' -  Loyalty -  'Pallywood' -  (use of) Ambulances for terror -  (use of) Women for terror -  Human Shields -  Middle east background -  September 11 terror plot on London -  Myth on: 'Terrorists are desperate' -  Jews & Christians as "Apes & Pigs"? -  Non Muslims as "Cows" -  Early history -  Early terrorism -  Muslims & WW2 -  World domination & Caliphate -  'Palestinians' in Lebanon -  Jordan - Black September -  Syrian Crimes -  Lobbies -  Excuses -  Global conflicts Respond violently to anyone that says, writes, draws that...

INDONESIA'S Supreme Court has overturned a guilty verdict against Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for conspiracy in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings, a court spokesman said today. Some foreign governments accuse the cleric of having led a regional extremist group and the move is likely to anger countries such as Australia, which lost 88 nationals in the bomb attacks on nightclubs on the Indonesian resort island. Bashir was released in June after completing a 30-month jail sentence for being part of a conspiracy behind the bombings. The Supreme Court, in response to an appeal by Bashir challenging the verdict, ruled...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has extended for two more years the imprisonment of a terror suspect linked to al-Qaeda's attempts to produce chemical and biological weapons, saying he has more information about terrorist operations. Yazid Sufaat, a U.S.-trained biochemist and former Malaysian army captain, was arrested in late 2001 as he returned home from Afghanistan, where officials say he was working on a biological and chemical weapons program for al-Qaeda that was ended by the U.S.-led war. Since then, he has been held without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act on accusations of being a member of Jemaah...

FAMILIES of Australians and others killed in the first Bali bombing four years ago have held an emotional service on the Indonesian resort island. About 150 families, friends and victims of the October 2002 blast gathered to mourn at Garuda Wisnu Kencana on the hills overlooking Kuta. The October 12, 2002, bombings on two bars killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, and were blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist network. Australia's Ambassador to Indonesia, Bill Farmer, today extended Australia's sympathies to victims and families of the blast. He pledged that Australia would remain determined to fight terrorism. "We...

No quarter in dealing with terrorists By KARL WEINBERG COMMUNITY VOICE On the subject of how to treat terrorists once caught in our fight against Islamofascists, the mainstream media would have us believe that we are torturing the captives by using sleep deprivation, loud rock'n' roll music, female interrogators and such. Many Americans, including me, do not believe this is torture at all. Instead, we believe that much harsher treatment should be used to get information from these terrorists. While the U.S. Supreme Court, Sens. John McCain and Lindsay Graham have said these terrorists are covered under Common Article three...

A collection of 9/11 tributes I’ll add to the list below, and if you have any you’d like to add to this (or any other sort of tribute/remembrance), please do so here. Either leave a comment with the link, or link to this post and send a trackback. 9/11: The 5th Year Anniversary Tribute Blood of Heroes September 11th, Uncensored From Brain Terminal: Crystal Morning: September 11th, 2001 From William Teach: 9/11 Plus 5 From Crusader: WTC Tribute More from YouTube: 911 tribute September 11th - Five Years Later: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 September 11th - Flash...

HAMBALI, the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombing, has been transferred to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba from a secret CIA prison and is expected to face a military trial. For more than two years since Thai authorities captured Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, and handed him over to US authorities, the Bush administration has refused to comment on his whereabouts. But President George W.Bush admitted yesterday that Hambali, Jemaah Islamiah's operational commander and senior al-Qa'ida leader, had been held in a secret CIA detention system outside the US - believed to be in eastern Europe - along with 13...

Top 10 Reasons Islam Might Not Be a Religion of Peace Written by Don Feder Thursday, August 31, 2006 A passenger revolt occurred on a Malaga-Manchester flight.  Vacationing Brits refused to fly with two Arabic-speaking men.  This came in the wake of arrests of 21 British-born Muslims who were plotting to blow up as many as 11 trans-Atlantic flights. A spokesman for Britain’s opposition Tory party said the passengers panicked into “behaving irrationally.”  Fancy that, not wanting to fly with members of a faith whose adherents keep trying to blow things up.  Oh, how irrational! Within days of this incident, a Lebanese student...

Islamofascism the term (article by WSJ)Islamofascism's 1936What Is 'Islamofascism'?Yes, the problem is 'Islamic fascism'Islamic Fascism the Enemy, Not Terror, Says Santorum -- 07/21/2006Oriana Fallaci and the War Against IslamofascismThe Meaning of 'Islamofascism'Michael Ledeen on Fascism & War on TerrorIslamic Fascism The only proper response to Islamofascism is total warThe Devilfish of Islamofascism Neo-Nazi becomes fanatical Muslim (24/5/2006)Lebanon, Islamofascism and democracyRogmios on IslamofascismIslamo-Nazis, The Historical Collaboration of Nazis with Muslims/Arabs

The Meaning of 'Islamofascism' The MEMRI Report By STEVEN STALINSKY May 24, 2006 Since the war on terrorism began many new Arabic and Islamic terms including "Fatwa" and "Jihad" have been introduced to Western vernacular. To the displeasure of some Islamists other terms such as "homicide bomber" and "Islamofascism" have also been introduced. An article titled "How the Right Played the Fascism Card Against Islam" on the Web site of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is highly critical of using the term "Islamofascism":

How [radical] Islam makes one into a fascist, whether you are Arab, black, etc. The broader view of the deep & wide reality of Islamofascism What do the Arab Muslim massacre in NYC WTC, The Pakistani Muslim bombing in London, the Arab Muslim bombing in Madrid, an Indonesian attack on Australians in Bali, an Arab Muslim racist attack on an ordinary Jew in Paris, Arabs' onslaught in the genocide campaign in Sudan, WW2's Bosnian Muslims attacking Christian Serbs, Jordanian Arab murderer: Zarqawi that seperated (Nazi style) between Shiite & Sunni kids on a bus, Arab slave masters in Mauritania, a...

Militan cleric Abu Bakar Bashir gestures during a press conference at his residence in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, Thursday, June 15, 2006. The Freed cleric on Thursday described the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings as "God's will" and encouraged non-Muslim survivors of the attacks to convert to Islam. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)","DITA ALANGKARA", "AP"); June 15, 2006, 10:08AMCleric Calls on Bush to Convert to Islam By IRWAN FIRDAUS Associated Press Writer © 2006 The Associated Press SOLO, Indonesia — A reputed leader of an al-Qaida-linked terror group blamed for deadly bombings across Indonesia on Thursday accused President Bush and Australia's prime...

MELBOURNE, June 12 (Bernama) -- The scheduled release on Wednesday of Abu Bakar Bashir, alleged spiritual leader of the extremist group Jemaah Islamiah, could spark a fresh round of terror strikes. Rohan Gunaratna, Head of the International Centre for Terrorism and Political Violence Research, told "The Australian" newspaper the early release of Abu Bakar would send a dangerous message to terror groups. "Bashir is also the leader of the Majelis Mujahedin Indonesia, an umbrella organisation of jihad groups in Indonesia," Dr Gunaratna was quoted as saying. "He will mobilise them, he will politicise them. He has the credentials because he...

Militant Islamic Cleric Released from Indonesian Prison Tuesday , June 13, 2006 JAKARTA, Indonesia — A hardline cleric alleged to be a top leader in the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group was released from prison Wednesday to cries of "God is great" from scores of cheering supporters. Abu Bakar Bashir, 68, had served 26 months for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people and thrust Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, onto the front lines of the war on terror. "I thank Allah that I am free today," a smiling and waving Bashir said after...

BRAVERY AWARDS CROSS OF VALOUR (CV) For acts of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme peril. Senior Constable Timothy Ian BRITTEN, WA Citation: At approximately 11.30pm on 12 October 2002, following a terrorist bombing in Bali, Constable Timothy Britten placed his life in danger by repeatedly entering the burning Sari Club to rescue a seriously injured woman and to search for survivors. Constable Britten, a West Australian police officer on secondment to the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in East Timor, was in Bali on leave. As he walked to his hotel, he heard an explosion that he...

A heads up for Australians (I know there's a few of you out there). If you have access to Foxtel channels, Seconds From Disaster, 8.30pm this evening on the National Geographic Channel will be analysing the first Bali bombing (October 12th, 2002). They are doing quite a bit on terrorism at the moment. Last night, National Geographic broadcast 7/7: Attack on London while Discovery Channel broadcast The Flight That Fought Back.

Four Indonesians arrested last week have been named suspects under anti-terrorism laws in October's restaurant bombings on Bali and for hiding a key militant. "These four people are believed to have been involved in the 2005 Bali bombings," deputy national police spokesman Anton Bahrul Alam said. "They also helped hide Noordin M Top during and after the bombings." Police have been conducting a nationwide manhunt for Top, a senior member of Jemaah Islamiah - a shadowy militant group seen as the South-East Asian arm of Al Qaeda. Top is blamed for helping mastermind a series of bombings in Indonesia in...

A SYDNEY man allegedly telephoned the suspected leader of al-Qa'ida in Spain – Abu Dahdah – seeking help to move a "brother" and his family throughout Europe. The allegation about former Qantas baggage handler Bilal Khazal – made in documents tendered in Mr Dahdah's terrorism trial – contradicts claims by him that he had never spoken to the alleged terror chief, or even knew who he was. As more details of a network of alleged terror supporters in Australia emerged yesterday, it has been claimed a second Australian named in the Spanish court documents, Melbourne cleric Sheikh Mohammed Omran, was...

MOST of the ball bearings that ripped through Terry Fitzgerald's body - partially severing his spinal cord, cutting nerves to two fingers and shredding his spleen - are still there. Doctors have been able to remove six but the other 26 will remain lodged in his back, arms and head, constant reminders of the Bali bomb blast in October that killed his son Brendan, badly injured his daughter Jessica and changed his life forever. "The one in the head went through the side of my neck here, missed all the important stuff and ended up at the top of my...

Indonesia will investigate a hardline Muslim boarding school founded by radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir as part of a crackdown on Islamic militancy following recent triple suicide bombings in Bali. Police in Bali also said they would charge an extremist accused of being the right-hand man for fugitive terrorist Noordin Top with involvement in the October 1 attacks, meaning he will face a possible death penalty. Indonesia's Religious Affairs Department said it would investigate the teachings of the Al Mukmin boarding school founded by Bashir near the town in Ngruki. The school counts several of the original Bali bombers among...

UNTIL the last minute of his life at 3.30pm last Wednesday, the logistics skills that the Bali bombing mastermind known as the “Demolition Man” had polished at Reading University did not desert him. As a team from Indonesia’s elite police unit, Detachment 88, crept into place around his hideaway, Azahari bin Husin, 48, was working with an accomplice on the explosive devices that had made his name. They had more than 30 small charges with intricate electronic settings, which police experts think were intended to detonate larger bombs. Computer disks, several mobile phones and jihadi tracts littered the main room...

Indonesia's most wanted man and the terrorist blamed for a string of attacks including the Bali bombings has reportedly blown himself up after police raided his East Java hideout this afternoon. Malaysian bomb mastermind Dr Azahari Husin apparently triggered a bomb killing himself and two accomplices after police surrounded a villa in the hill resort town of Batu, near Malang, local television news stations reported. An undated police handout photo shows Malaysian bombmaker Azahari Husin. Photo: Reuters Witnesses told of gunshots and at least two explosions after crack anti-terror police raided the house around 3.30pm this afternoon. The area was...

INDONESIA on Thursday confirmed that master bomb-maker and Islamic radical Azahari Husin, one of Asia's top terror suspects and most wanted men, was killed after a shootout with police. Azahari, a Malaysian from the al-Qaeda linked Jemaaah Islamiyah (JI) militant network who was known as the 'Demolition Man', was tracked down Wednesday at his remote hideway in Batu and reportedly blew himself up to avoid capture. Indonesia's national police chief said fingerprinting had confirmed that Azahari, known as a master of disguise, was killed during the stand-off in East Java. "There were two comparative (sets of fingerprints) and both are...

Jakarta: Malaysian terrorist and Bali bombing ringleader Azahari Husin is believed to have been killed during a shoot-out with Indonesian police. A senior member of an Indonesian anti-terror squad confirmed that two suspects were killed during a raid yesterday afternoon on a villa in the central Java town of Batu. The local police chief was quoted later as saying seven suspects were killed during the gun battle. The anti-terror squad member told The Age that one of the dead was thought to be Azahari. "One has the physical characteristics of Azahari. Now we are identifying him," he said. Azahari, along...

COTABATO CITY -- Alleged Indonesian terrorists Dulmatin and Omar Patek were reportedly sighted in Lanao del Sur province last week, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police chief said Tuesday. Senior Superintendent Akmad Mamalinta said the two were seen in the company of Muslim gunmen near Marawi City. Mamalinta said they would track down the two Indonesians, reportedly bomb experts from the regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah. Copyright 2005 Inquirer News Service. All rights reserved.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A militant cleric jailed for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings will be among 53,000 inmates receiving sentence reductions to mark Indonesia's independence day, authorities and media reports said Saturday. Abu Bakar Bashir, alleged spiritual head of the al-Qaida-linked terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, was convicted in March of conspiracy in the Bali bombings that killed 202 people, many of them Australian tourists. Others convicted in the Bali blasts will also receive reductions in their prison terms, Minister of Justice and Human Rights Hamid Awaluddin told the Jakarta Post. "Convicts with a record of good behavior...

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, upholding his 30-month prison sentence for his part in the conspiracy behind the 2002 Bali bombings, a lawyer for Bashir said yesterday. The appeal had been filed in late June after appellate judges at Jakarta High Court upheld a 30-month jail sentence handed down by the lower court in March. “The appeal was rejected, but we will pursue a judicial review of the case,” the aging cleric’s lawyer, Mahendra Data, said. Data said he had been notified “verbally” on August 3 about the court’s decision,...

By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's president said Tuesday he will hand over senior al-Qaida terrorist suspect Abu Farraj al-Libbi to the United States for prosecution, even though the man is believed behind two assassination attempts against him and could have received the death penalty here. ADVERTISEMENT President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said al-Libbi was cooperating but had not provided any useful information on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, and that Pakistan has no interest in keeping him. "We deport al-Qaida suspects to the United States," Musharraf told a CNN conference in Atlanta,...

This week's Indonesian court verdict against Abu Bakar Bashir on 'evil conspiracy' charges meted out a pickpocket's punishment to a terrorist ringleader responsible for an atrocity second only to 9/11. Bashir's 2 ½ year sentence for the October 2002 Bali nightclub bombing is a parody of justice and an insult to the lost lives of the U.S., Australian, Indonesian and other citizens who died in the attack. This sentence is especially bitter because the U.S. and Australia have expended so much blood and treasure to rid the world of terrorism elsewhere in Asia. But in Indonesia, there is no justice...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A witness Tuesday for the first time linked an aging Indonesian cleric to a regional terror group affiliated with al-Qaida and blamed for nightclub bombings in Bali that killed 202 people two years ago. The witness, Nasir Abbas, said he was a former operative with the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group and that cleric Abu Bakar Bashir claimed to have met with al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Bashir is being tried on charges of leading Jemaah Islamiyah and inspiring his followers to carry out the Oct. 12, 2002, bombings - whose victims included seven Americans...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Indonesian government yesterday opened the retrial of an Indonesian cleric charged with leading an al-Qaida-linked group and inciting its members to carry out attacks against U.S. interests. Prosecutors seek to prove Abu Bakar Bashir, 66, is responsible for last year's suicide bomb attack on the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, which killed 12 people, mostly Indonesians. The charges are filed under a new anti-terror law, which authorizes the death penalty if he is found guilty. The government also charged Bashir with involvement in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. That...

Indonesian police say they will not charge a militant Islamic cleric for the 2002 nightclub bombing on the island of Bali. The decision was made just days after Indonesia's Constitutional Court limited the use of the country's anti-terrorism legislation. Indonesian police said Wednesday that Abu Bakar Bashir, the militant cleric alleged to have been the leader of the terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, will not be charged in connection with the October 2002 Bali bombing. More than 200 people were killed in that attack. Most of them were young western tourists. The decision comes just days after Indonesia's Constitutional Court ruled...

<p>LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.</p>

A German under investigation for alleged terrorist connections after being deported from Indonesia has been linked to the financing of the Bali bombings by suspects in the attack, a German magazine reports.Seyam Reda, a German citizen of Egyptian descent, returned to Germany in July after serving a 10-month prison sentence for visa violations.Federal prosecutors said he was being investigated on suspicion of supporting al-Qaeda, but no arrest warrant has been issued for him.The German weekly Der Spiegelsaid two suspects in the October 2002 Bali attacks in which 202 people died, including 88 Australians, said Reda helped finance the nightclub bombings...