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Bashir calls for global sha'riah law
Militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir lashed out at the United States just hours after his release from jail on Wednesday, as he headed to his hometown to resume teaching at an Islamic school, notorious for producing deadly militants.Bashir was given a hero's welcome by about 150 supporters outside Jakarta's Cipinang prison after serving a 26-month sentence for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people, mostly young, foreign tourists. Famed for his fiery rhetoric, 68-year-old Bashir is alleged by the US and Australia to be a founder and top leader in Jemaah Islamiyah, the al-Qaeda-linked terror group blamed for the Bali bombings, and a host of other bloody attacks and failed plots in Indonesia and elsewhere in South-east Asia. "The United States is a state terrorist because it is waging war against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan," he told waiting reporters. Bashir made the remark after he stopped for midday prayers in the town of Tegal, east of Jakarta, en route to his boarding school in the central Javanese city of Solo, where about 1 000 people waited to greet him. Earlier he urged "all Muslims to unite behind one goal" and implement Islamic sharia law around the world, showing he'd lost none of his militancy while in prison. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-06-15 |
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