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Southeast Asia
Militant jailed over Australian embassy bombing
2006-12-15
An Indonesian court has sentenced a Muslim militant to three years in jail for storing explosives used in the 2004 suicide bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta. Twelve people, including the bomber, were killed when an explosives-laden van exploded in front of the mission on September 5, 2004.

Judges at the state court in Surabaya, East Java, sentenced 27-year-old Ahmad Arif Hermansyah. "The panel of judges found him guilty of having intentionally assisted acts of terrorism and withholding information on act of terrorism," a court clerk said.

The clerk said the defendant and his lawyers had filed an appeal. The sentence was two years lighter than the prosecution had recommended.
And Ahmad won't serve much of that.
Prosecutors had accused the defendant of agreeing to store a cardboard box for a friend, who was tried separately, but failing to ask what it contained. Prosecutors said it contained explosives later used in the embassy attack. They also told the court the defendant had been an active member of the Jemaah Islamiah militant network in 1997.
"What's in the box, Mahmoud?"
"Shaddup and put it in a safe place."
Posted by:Steve White

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