JAKARTA: Attempts by prosecutors to link a radical Muslim cleric to terrorist bombings suffered a blow yesterday when five people convicted over the blasts failed to implicate him.
Abubakar Ba'asyir, 66, is on trial for inciting followers to carry out the October 2002 Bali nightclub bombings in which 202 people died and plotting an attack in August last year on the Jakarta Marriott hotel in which 12 were killed.
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