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Southeast Asia |
Sonata faces court over terrorism charges |
2005-12-30 |
![]() One charge, of planning and motivating others to commit terrorist acts carries a penalty of life imprisonment or death. Police say Sonata's arrest stopped the flow of foreign funds to Indonesia's main terrorist groups and the head of the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) says this has forced the terrorists to turn to armed robberies and to planning kidnappings to try to finance their operations. |
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