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...SENTENCE REDUCED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 65, jailed Indonesian cleric and accused spiritual leader of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiah, which has been blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings; by Indonesia's Supreme Court; in Jakarta. Abubakar was originally sentenced to four years in prison for subversion and immigration violations. But the subversion conviction was thrown out in December, and last week his jail term was cut to 18 months including time served, allowing Abubakar to be released in a matter of weeks. The court's decision sparked concern about Indonesia's commitment to fighting terrorism. Visiting Jakarta last...
...They have the mentality of colonialists-all white people are like that." ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, Indonesian Muslim cleric accused of being the spiritual head of a terror group, responding to U.S. and Australian concerns over the halving of his prison sentence by Indonesia's Supreme Court...
...Osama bin Laden is not a cleric, and his movement's policies and strategies have been formulated on a political basis. As former CIA operative Reuel Marc Gerecht noted three years ago, "Bin Laden's vision was designed to appeal to the larger Muslim world. His primary target is the enemy without, the United States, not the enemy within, the 'impious' Muslims. The goal is to unify Muslims, not to divide them by doctrine or even by the intensity of their faith." Gerecht cites passages from key policy documents of al-Qaeda stressing the need for bin Laden's supporters...
...after Mahmoud Shakir Mohsen arrested a member of the religious militia, the religious militia arrested him. "They told me, 'Your time is over,'" says the police sergeant. "'Now it's our time.'" Bound and blindfolded, Mohsen was taken to the Islamic courts of Muqtada al-Sadr, the most militant cleric in the holy city of Najaf, where he was beaten with a police baton and held in an underground prison for 16 days, until his commanding officer negotiated a $200 fee for his release...
...accused of peddling pornography have had their shops bombed. The court's claim of religious sanction is particularly potent in Najaf, where portraits of religious leaders have replaced statues of Saddam Hussein. While al-Sadr's critics may whisper that his courts are more concerned with stamping out the cleric's enemies than with doing God's work, few dare say it aloud. "The most important man in Najaf can't say no to this court," says Saeed Tryak al-Jubori, a senior police officer in the city...