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| Four survivors of Bali bombings testify at trial | |
| 2012-04-06 | |
| JAKARTA, Indonesia: Four foreign victims of the 2002 Bali bombings testified Thursday in the trial of an Indonesian militant accused of helping to build the massive car bomb used in the terrorist attack. Australians Jason McCartney, Peter Hughes and Stuart Anstee and American Steven William Cabler told an Indonesian court how explosives carried in a backpack and a van destroyed two packed nightclubs. The attack was AsiaÂ’s most deadly terror strike and killed 202 people, including 88 Australians and seven Americans. Umar Patek, 45, a leading member of the Al-Qaeda-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah, was arrested last year in Pakistan. He is the last key suspect to be tried in the Bali bombings and faces a possible death penalty if found guilty of various terror-related and criminal charges. Prosecutors plan to use the testimonies of the foreign victims to support their sentencing demand.
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| Posted by:Steve White |