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Southeast Asia
Prosecutors argue Indonesia's Bashir knew of bombs
2005-02-23
Indonesian prosecutors made their final push on Tuesday to convict militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on terrorism charges by arguing he was aware of plans for deadly bomb attacks but never tried to stop them. Prosecutors wound up their case against 66-year-old Bashir on charges that link him to the October 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists, and the 2003 blast at Jakarta's JW Marriott Hotel in which 12 died.

Bashir is charged with criminal acts of arson and explosion in relation to the Bali blasts and with "evil conspiracy" under Indonesia's anti-terror laws over the Marriott bombing. The white-bearded cleric has repeatedly denied the charges, which he says resulted from Western pressure. Prosecutors had earlier cited a lack of evidence when they dropped a charge that Bashir had incited terror attacks as the leader of the militant, al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) network in Southeast Asia.
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