The Jakarta Post, 9/22/2005 5:33:36 PM
Another Australian bombing accomplice gets 10 years in jail
JAKARTA (Agencies): The South Jakarta district court convicted another militant on
Thursday for his involvement in last year's bombing outside the Australian embassy
and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
The court found Saipul Bahri, alias Apuy, guilty of violating anti-terrorism laws in the
suicide bombing last September that left 12 dead and some 100 people wounded in a
busy central Jakarta business district.
"The defendant is legally and convincingly guilty of violating anti-terror laws by helping
others commit acts of terrorism," Chief Judge Sutjahyo Padmo said when reading the
verdict.
The verdict against Saipul was met with shouts of "God is great" by around a dozen of
his supporters in the South Jakarta District Court. The 36-year-old unemployed man
said he would appeal.
Saipul is one of six Indonesians to have faced trial over the bombing. Two of them
have been sentenced to death, while the other three are serving sentences of between
3 1/2 years and seven years in jail.
The court said the defendant had been found guilty for helping the most wanted
Malaysian terror suspects Azahari bin Husin and Noordin Mohammed Top find a safe
house, as well as for helping purchase explosive materials used to make the bomb.(*)
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