INDONESIAN prosecutors today called for a two-year prison term for a man accused of using his science degree and Islamic militant experience to run bomb workshops and plot terror attacks on Western interests. Adi Suryana alias Qital, a 41-year-old chemical engineering graduate and alleged member of the Jemaah Islamiah regional militant network, led a meeting in February 2003 to set up attack teams, South Jakarta district court was told. Prosecutor Helmi Tajuddin said Suryana was a veteran extremist who helped train militants in Afghanistan between 1986 and 1993 and returned to Indonesia to join the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah group. In 1999 he became an instructor at a military camp run by the Muslim rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the southern Philippines, Tajuddin said. Suryana was also accused of giving several bomb-making classes for fellow Afghan alumni in 2003. | Make it 20 years and keep him in solitary. |
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