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  • Indonesian appeals court clears militant leader of treason [Abu Bakar Bashir]

    11/30/2003 11:59:00 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 1 replies · 189+ views
    Associated Press | December 1, 2003
    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian appeals court has cleared militant leader Abu Bakar Bashir of treason and reduced his sentence from four years to three, court officials said Monday. The court upheld Bashir's conviction on lesser charges of forging identity documents. Bashir was convicted in September of treason in a plot to overthrow Indonesia's secular government but cleared of charges of being the leader of the al-Qaida linked Southeast Asia terror group Jemaah Islamiyah. The decision was widely criticized by foreign governments who maintain that Bashir is the spiritual head of the group, which has been blamed for...