INDONESIA: Islamic militant suspect appears in court in connection with 2009 bomb attacks on two hotels in Jakarta and plan to assassinate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Record ID: 791951

  • Title: INDONESIA: Islamic militant suspect appears in court in connection with 2009 bomb attacks on two hotels in Jakarta and plan to assassinate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
  • Date: 11th February 2010
  • Summary: JAKARTA, INDONESIA (FEBRUARY 10, 2010) (REUTERS) ***CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** EXTERIOR OF SOUTH JAKARTA COURT WHERE THE TRIALS TOOK PLACE SOUTH JAKARTA COURT'S LOGO TWO SUSPECTS ARRIVING AT COURT HOUSE COMPOUND CAMERAMEN TWO SUSPECTS AMIR ABDILLAH AND ARIS SUSANTO AT COURT HOUSE DETAINED ROOM AMIR ABDILLAH BEHIND BARS CAMERAMEN WAITING AT COURT ROOM COURT ROOM WITH PANEL JUDGES ABDILLAH ENTERING COURT ROOM ABDILLAH SITTING IN FRONT OF PANEL JUDGES ABDILLAH'S FEET COURT ROOM PROSECUTORS (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) TOTOK BAMBANG, STATE PROSECUTOR SAYING: "Who do evil deeds, trying or help terrorist crime intentionally using violence or threat of violence that led to an atmosphere of terror or fear people widely." JOURNALIST SITTING ON FRONT ROW ABDILLAH LISTENS TO THE INDICTMENT FROM PROSECUTOR AMIR ABDILLAH ABDILLAH'S HAND COURT SESSION COURT ROOM
  • Embargoed: 26th February 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Indonesia
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA453INUMPXQRJ3Y3ISAAMC8L31
  • Story Text: A south Jakarta court starts procedures against Islamic militants for their alleged involvement in a terror plot and last year's hotel bombings.
    An Indonesian suspect appeared in court Wednesday (February 10) in connection with bomb attacks on two luxury hotels in Jakarta last July and a plan to assassinate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
    Amir Abdillah, 34, is the first a group of defendants set to appear in court believed to have taken orders from Noordin Mohammad Top, the head of a violent wing of the militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah, which police said was behind the attacks.
    State prosecutor Totok Bambang told the court that Abdillah along with other group members launched suicide bomb attacks at the Ritz Carlton and J.W. Marriott hotels in July 2009, killing 11 people including the suicide bombers, and wounding 53.
    "Who do evil deeds, trying or help terrorist crime intentionally using violence or threat of violence that led to an atmosphere of terror or fear people widely", state prosecutor Totok Bambang told the court.
    Prosecutors said Abdillah was nearby on the morning of the hotel attacks, and, according to his statements to police, said "Allahu Akbar", or "God is great", before and after the bombs exploded.
    Abdillah had told police that Top, who was killed by police in a raid in September, had ordered the attacks on the hotels, and had planned to assassinate the president using a car bomb shortly afterwards.
    Under Indonesian law, the maximum penalty for abetting acts of terrorism is death.
    The group Jemaah Islamiah, which is believed to want to create an Islamic state linking Muslim communities in Southeast Asia, has been previously linked to al Qaeda.
    The same group was blamed for a string of attacks that killed hundreds of civilians, including the bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta in 2004 and of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2003.
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