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By P. S. Suryanarayana
SINGAPORE, MARCH 3. A high-profile Muslim cleric of Indonesia, Abu Bakar Baasyir [Bashir], was today sentenced by the South Jakarta District Court to two years and six months in prison for his role in "a sinister conspiracy" that led to the terrorist carnage in Bali in October 2002. The death toll was nearly 200, with Australian holiday-makers being the largest single group of victims. The Chairman of the Panel of Judges, Sudarto, acquitted Mr. Baasyir of all other charges of inciting or planning terrorist attacks across Indonesia, including the bombing of a luxury hotel in Jakarta in August 2003.
Rejects verdict
Mr. Baasyir, leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, which is widely regarded as the southeast Asian affiliate of the Al-Qaeda, rejected the court's verdict and blamed the U.S. for the manner in which he was being treated. There was no immediate indication about the future course of this case. Mr. Baasyir, who was arrested in 2002 in the wake of the Bali bombings, was acquitted of the charges of treason and sentenced, a year later, for immigration offences. He was charged afresh on the basis of claims about new evidence. With the case having attracted much international attention, regional diplomats and observers took the general line that no rigorous sentence was expected in the light of a recent judicial ruling that Indonesia's stern anti-terror laws, passed after the Bali bombings, could not be applied to any "conspiracy" that might have triggered that tragedy.
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