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The Jakarta Post, 11/30/2004 4:43:51 PM

Jailed militant says Ba'asyir never spoke to him of plotting attacks

JAKARTA (AFP): A Malaysian Muslim militant jailed in Indonesia said on Tuesday that alleged former regional terror chief Abu Bakar Ba'asyir never spoke of plans to attack Western interests during encounters with him.

Syamsul Bahri, testifying in Ba'asyir's terrorism trial, said he was told by another militant that Ba'asyir had succeeded Abdullah Sungkar as the leader of the Jamaah Islamiyah extremist group but was not aware of his inauguration.

"I've never heard of bombing plans from ustadz (teacher) or talk of that sort. There were only religious messages," Bahri, a 27-year-old British-trained engineer, told the court.

Bahri said he met Ba'asyir on three occasions -- in Pakistan when he was studying Islam, in Malaysia and in Indonesia. Ba'asyir denied he met Bahri in Pakistan.

A Jakarta court jailed Bahri for three years in July for attending Jamaah Islamiyah meetings last year to plan terror attacks in Indonesia.

Ba'asyir, an Islamic cleric, is accused of inciting followers to carry out the October 2002 Bali nightclub bombings in which 202 people died and of plotting last year's attack on the Jakarta Marriott hotel in which 12 were killed.

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