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| Southeast Asia |
| Bali terror suspect could serve only a few years |
| 2011-09-04 |
| [Straits Times] An Indonesian man blamed for South-east Asia's deadliest suicide kaboom could escape with just a few years behind bars. The tough anti-terrorism law passed after the double nightclub blasts in Bali cannot be used retroactively against Umar Patek, leaving prosecutors scrambling to convict him of lesser crimes, from premeditated murder to immigration violations. Patek, an Al-Qaeda-linked myrmidon captured on Jan 25 in the same Pak town where the late Osama bin Laden ... Maybe his Mom misses him... was killed by US forces, allegedly told interrogators he made the explosives used in the 2002 attacks on Bali island. The bombings killed 202 people, including 88 Australians and seven Americans. They were followed by near annual suicide kabooms on glitzy Western hotels, restaurants and an embassy in the world's most populous Mohammedan nation. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Wonder what would happen if we asked to extradite him? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-09-04 10:16 |