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...SENTENCED. Abdul Aziz, 31, Dwi Widiarto, 34, and Mohammad Cholili, 29, to eight to 18 years in prison for their roles in the October 2005 suicide bombings in Bali, Indonesia, which killed 20 people and injured over 100; in Denpasar. Aziz reportedly harbored Jemaah Islamiah plotter Nurdin Mohammed Top and designed websites for the terror organization, while Widiarto helped film the bombers' farewell tapes. Both received eight-year sentences. Cholili, a former mobile-phone vendor who assembled circuitry for the bombs, was sentenced to 18 years in jail...
...MAWARDI NURDIN...
...police source told TIME that at 5 a.m. on Nov. 8, the day before the raid in which Azahari died, Yahya emerged from the Batu house. Having tapped Yahya's mobile phone, authorities believed he was on his way to meet Azahari's suspected chief accomplice, fellow Malaysian Nurdin Mohammed Top, in Semarang in Central Java. Yahya apparently spotted his tails during the journey. The police source says Yahya tried to detonate an explosives vest he was wearing but was arrested and later admitted he was a courier passing messages between Azahari and Nurdin. The source says that the information...
...wreckage police found a workshop for manufacturing small bombs suitable for suicide missions. A police source says 33 packets of explosives were discovered-one of which was already packed into a knapsack, while others were at various stages of assembly. The upshot: Azahari, 48, and Nurdin, 33, were almost certainly planning a string of fresh attacks...
...Azahari's death deals a serious blow to Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the Southeast Asian network of militants to which he allegedly belonged, and which is widely believed to have been behind the Bali bombings of last month and of 2002. But many militants are still at large, most notably Nurdin. Shadowy and less flamboyant than Azahari, Nurdin was given responsibility for planning and executing J.I.'s bombing campaign, which was launched by the group's operations supremo Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali) at a terrorism summit in Bangkok in early 2002. (Hambali was arrested in Thailand...