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| Noordin's father-in-law on trial |
| 2010-06-25 |
| [Straits Times] THE father-in-law of slain Malaysian terror leader Noordin Mohammed Top went on trial in Indonesia on Thursday, facing up to 15 years in prison for helping the fugitive evade capture. Baharudin Latif alias Baridin, 55, was arrested five months after suicide bomb attacks on two luxury hotels in Jakarta in July last year that killed seven people. 'The defendant deliberately provided assistance and facilities to the perpertrator of terrorism by hiding from police the most-wanted terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top,' prosecutor Firmansyah told the court. Noordin was killed in a police raid in September, ending one of Southeast Asia's biggest manhunts. He led a group he called Al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago and was responsible for multiple deadly attacks in the mainly Muslim country, including the hotel bombings and a truck-bomb blast at the Australian embassy in 2004. Firmansyah said Latif had been a member of regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) since 1995 and led a local branch in East Java province in 2000. . Noordin visited Latif's house three times and married his daughter, Arina Rahmah, in 2006. |
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