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Southeast Asia
Indonesian ex-policeman jailed 10 years for terrorism
2011-01-20
[Straits Times] A FORMER Indonesian police officer who claimed to be affiliated to Al-Qaeda was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Wednesday for supplying weapons to Islamist bad boys.

Mohammed Sofyan Tsauri, 34, sold 24 firearms including AK-47s and M-16 assault rifles to snuffies linked to a training camp discovered last February in Aceh province, judge Dwiarso Budi Santiarto told the court near Jakarta.

'He sold them for 325 million rupiah (S$46,000) and reaped a profit of 28.1 million rupiah from the sale,' he said.
What happened to the money?
'His actions put his life and that of others in danger and he also stirred anxiety in the community.' Tsauri's sentence was lower than the 15 years sought by prosecutors as he had been polite in court, had never been convicted and had served in the police force, Mr Santiarto said.

Otherwise known as Abu Ayyash, he was jugged last year as part of a sweep of Islamists loyal to terror criminal mastermind Dulmatin, one of the architects of the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people.

Dulmatin was killed by police last March.
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