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Indonesia receives 125 Hambali interrogation transcripts
Indonesia has received 125 valuable transcripts from the US interrogation of top terror suspect Hambali, a foreign ministry official said on Wednesday. "They do contain valuable intelligence information. The police will study this information further and make use of it as they see fit," said Dino Pati Djalal, the director of the North America desk at the ministry. He did not reveal the contents or say whether the transcripts might be used to open a new case against militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, whose three-year jail sentence for immigration offences and the Supreme Court halved document forgery this month.The Asian Wall Street Journal said last week that new information allegedly implicating Bashir in planning attacks had emerged from the questioning of Hambali. A spokesman for Bashirâs Indonesian Mujahideen Council said earlier he feared police could use the documents as new evidence of terrorism against Bashir. "With those new transcripts, I fear that that ustadz (teacher) Bashir will be dragged back to jail upon his release," said Fauzan al-Anshori. A security ministry official has said the cleric may be tried again if new evidence emerges linking him to terror attacks. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-03-18 |
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