Indonesian Radical Leads Campaign on Anti-Terror Police
The 68-year-old firebrand Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, who was convicted of being behind the 2002 Bali bombings and then freed by Indonesia’s Supreme Court, is now trying to wipe out the elite anti-terror squad that linked him to the bombings because, he says, it is “unfair to Islamic activists.”
Just days after his supporters called on him to run …
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