Posted on 03/06/2005 3:45:49 AM PST by Kitten Festival
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 for these victims, only a charade of it. The terrorists have gotten away with it.
Grinning to a mob of Indonesian supporters brandishing anti-Bush signs in glee at his barely-there punishment, Bashir also completely escaped justice in the Jakarta Marriott bombing, which killed another 12 people, mostly Indonesians.
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Link is wrong - here is the correct link to this:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4304
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