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Southeast Asia
Standoff as cops question Bashir
2004-04-27
Indonesian police Monday postponed plans to question jailed Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir as a terrorism suspect after he and his lawyers complained that the summons was legally flawed. "Allahu Akbar!" (Holy shit! God is greatest) shouted about 50 supporters of the elderly cleric as police announced the delay outside Jakarta’s Salemba prison. "Fight American intervention," read posters displayed by members of the Islamic Defenders Front and other supporters from the Javanese city of Solo. "Drag and hang Bush," read one placard.
Friendly folk, aren't they?
Bashir, 65, is due to be freed on Friday after serving a sentence for immigration offences. But his release is uncertain after police formally declared him a terrorism suspect. Hardline and some mainstream Islamic groups say police are being pressured by the United States to keep the cleric behind bars. "I have a conviction that my arrest has been demanded by America. The US government, not American people, are infidels who are fighting Islam and we must not yield to their demand," Bashir told reporters after being visited by popular preacher Abdullah Gymnastiar. "I want to make an enemy — which is America — angry, and that is a good deed," Bashir said.
Congratulations, you've done your good deed. Now die.
Gymnastiar was among several moderate Islamic leaders who have visited Bashir in jail in a show of contempt for perceived foreign meddling in the case. Mohammad Assegaf, a lawyer for Bashir, said a police officer visited the jail earlier Monday to try to serve a summons. But they rejected it since it was only issued Sunday night. He said that by law police must submit a summons three days before a planned interrogation. Had they allowed Bashir to be taken to national police headquarters for interrogation, investigators might have continued his detention till Friday, he told reporters. "On that day they could issue a new arrest warrant," said Assegaf, who insisted that his client has the right to walk free on Friday. National police spokesman Bashir Barmawi said police plan to question Bashir sometime this week and would only determine his status afterwards. Bashir on Monday reiterated that he would cooperate with the police investigation as long as they did not try to keep him in jail during the inquiry.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#4  Unreal. And I've never been more proud to be a "red, white, and true blue" infidel, you Islamic morons.

These (types of) guys were spewing this exact same thing at my university more than twenty years ago. "It's the government of the American people, not the American people we have a problem with . . ." At that time they planned to use it as a direct-line strategy against America, by fooling the American people into protesting against the government, and planned on getting their little "message" of solidarity with "Americans" (they like us so very much, you see) out through the press.

Heard it from the horse's mouth.

B: I told them the same thing. And yes, it does pass them by. They have this big bad 'father' image to contend with in their thinking about governments. But they are smart enough to realize that the people have "some" influence on U.S. politics, so . . .
Posted by: ex-lib   2004-04-27 1:32:43 PM  

#3  The US government, not American people, are infidels About 99% of us are infidels. .

Sounds to me like the entire jihadi world has been clued into peacenut rhetoric. Fascinating...
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-04-27 8:19:45 AM  

#2  um...in America, the American people ARE the government. This concept really just seems to pass these people by.
Posted by: B   2004-04-27 7:52:51 AM  

#1  
The US government, not American people, are infidels

About 99% of us are infidels.
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Posted by: Mike Sylwester   2004-04-27 7:43:38 AM  

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