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| 10 Islamic militants sent to prison in Indonesia |
| 2012-02-01 |
| A court has sentenced 10 Islamic militants to up to eight years in prison for acquiring materials to be used in terrorist activities in Indonesia. The defendants were arrested after a suicide bombing last April that wounded 28 people in a mosque attended by police in the West Java town of Cirebon. The judges ruled today that the 10 defendants violated Indonesia's anti-terror law by either possessing or acquiring illegal arms and explosives material. Dzulkifli Lubis and Musolah Saifullah were sentenced to eight-year terms. The other defendants received between five and seven and half years. The trial was held in Tangerang city, just west Jakarta. The April 15 bombing was the first attack in a house of worship in Indonesia, where a string of terrorist attacks have occurred since 2002. |
| Posted by:tipper |