The Jakarta Post, 5/1/2006 4:56:47 PM
Court convicts three Islamic militants of terrorism
JAKARTA (AP: Three Islamic militants were sentenced to up to seven years in prison
Monday for helping shelter Southeast Asia's top terrorist mastermind and financing
bombings in Indonesia.
The South Jakarta District Court said all three hadconnections with the
al-Qaida-linked militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, blamed for a string of deadly suicide
attacks that left more than 240 dead over the past four years.
Abdulah Sunata and Joni Ahmad Fauzani both admitted meeting Noordin Top,
believed to be one of the group's key leaders, but denied terrorism charges. They
received prison terms of seven andfour years respectively.
The third defendant Joko Sumanto, was found guilty of financing terrorism and
gunrunning and sentenced to four years, the presiding judge said. (**)
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