Indonesia Frees Radical Cleric Accused of Links to '02 Bali Bombings — BenarNews
Kusumasari Ayuningtyas/BenarNews Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, a co-founder of the group blamed for Indonesia’s deadliest terrorist attack, returned home to his Islamic boarding school in Central Java upon being freed Friday after almost a decade behind bars on militancy-related charges. The former spiritual leader of al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) left a maximum-security prison in Bogor, south of Jakarta, in a van in the early morning, a spokeswoman for the Directorate General of Corrections said. “He was in good spirits and good health,” Rika Aprianti told repo...
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