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Indonesian cleric gets 15 years on terror charge
Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir talks to reporters from behind bars of a holding cell before the start of his trial at a district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, June 16, 2011.(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has sentenced radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to 15 years in prison on a terrorism charge.
Bashir, 72, was accused of helping to sanction and fund a jihadi training camp in westernmost Aceh province that brought together men from almost every known Indonesian extremist group.
The sentence was announced Thursday amid high security at a Jakarta court where hundreds of Bashir supporters gathered.
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