Abu Bakar Bashir
Fundamentalist Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was sentenced to 30 months jail by Indonesian judges for allegedly giving help and approval to Amrozi for the October 2002 Bali bombings. He was recently released from prison.
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In 2002, a task force was set up in order to combat militant Islamic separatist group Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines. Basilan's biggest towns had once been a nightmare for locals as terrorist and criminal organizations flooded the streets.
The Abu Sayyaf organization received support from Al-Qaeda in the early 1990s and it has long been the belief that it is sheltering leaders of the Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah.
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SYDNEY - ABOUT 150 people joined a sombre beachside memorial here on Monday, exactly seven years after 88 Australians died in the 2002 Bali bombings.
Mourners held a minute's silence on Sydney's Coogee Beach for the victims, who were among 202 killed in nightclub bombings carried out by Islamist militants.
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Residents of Mijen village of Kudus have prohibitted cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir from leading funeral of terrorist Bagus Budi Pranoto alias Urwah.Read More
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