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| Southeast Asia |
| Top Indonesian terror suspect goes on trial |
| 2010-12-30 |
| [Straits Times] THE trial of one of Indonesia's top terrorism suspects has opened in the capital. Abdullah Sunata is accused of setting up a terrorist cell of Mohammedan hard boyz with ties to the Middle East and the Philippines. Prosecutors say he also helped set up a jihadi training camp in western most Aceh province to prepare for high profile liquidations and attacks targeting Western hotels and embassies in Jakarta. Sunata was arrestd in June and faces a maximum penalty of death if convicted of violating anti-terrorism laws. Indonesia, a predominantly Mohammedan nation of 237 million people, has been hit by a series of suicide kabooms blamed on Al-Qaeda-linked hard boyz since 2002. More than 160 people have died, many of them foreign tourists. |
| Posted by:Fred |