Indonesia jails leaders of 'terrorist' JI (AFP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Mon, 04/21/2008 - 7:58am

Indonesian policemen stand guard at the blast site on Bali, following a 2002 car bombing that killed 202 people.<br /><br />An Indonesian court has sentenced the self-proclaimed leader of the Islamic militant group blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings to 15 years' jail on terrorism charges.(AFP/File/Oka Budhi)AFP - An Indonesian court sentenced two leaders of the Jemaah Islamiyah group, blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings, to 15 years' jail on Monday and slammed the Islamist outfit as a "terrorist organisation."




 

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