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| Indonesian police accuse Ba'syir in Bali bomb, but yet to find details |
| 2003-02-02 |
| Jakarta Post Indonesia's National Police Chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar said on Saturday that cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir took part in last year bombings in Bali, Antara reported. He said that the conclusion came after the investigations of a number of suspects, who currently being detained by the police. Da'i said, without elaborating, that Ba'asyir attended several meetings with Bali bombing suspects before and after the carnage. Oh, I am so surprised. But he added that police has yet found information about the detail of the meetings. Ba'asyir has been in jail in October last year, only several days after the Bali bombign, for alleged involvement in a series of bombings in the city in 2000 and a plot to assasinate Megawati Soekarnoputri, who was then the country's vice president. Ba'asyir has repeatedly denied involvement of the bombings. "Y'got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!" His lawyer, M. Assegaf, said that police has accused Ba'asyir for the Bali bombings since the beginning of the investigation. That could be unfairness on their part, or unreasoning hatred of innocent Islamists. It could also be because Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, the U.S., and Australia had been warning them about Bashir pulling something similar for the past year. Being an infidel, I prefer to think it's the latter. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |