Thursday, December 21, 2006

[mass-murderer freed] bashir’s release a mockery

Indonesia's Supreme Court has ruled that convicted mass-murderer, cleric Abu Bakar Bashir did not give his blessing after all to the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 88 Australians,. The ruling overturns Bashir's conviction on conspiracy charges in the Bali bombings that killed a total of 202 people.

"The decision came out this morning from chief judge German Hoediarto. It says to free the defendant from all charges," Lauris Ramly, the head of the Supreme Court's judicial review unit said yesterday.

A five-judge panel of an Indonesian court ruled in 2005 that Bashir had known in advance of the Bali nightclub attacks. Western and regional intelligence officials say Bashir was the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a South-East Asian extremist group blamed for the Bali bombings and a string of other deadly attacks in Indonesia in recent years.

This makes a complete mockery of both the Indonesian judicial system and by association, the Islamic religion, by showing once and for all that it is not interested in truth and justice but in collusion and the sanctity of murder.

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