terror poker

i'll see your "raised money for hizbullaah" and raise you one "approved bali bombing that killed 202 persons".

fuckmullah bashir, whose sentence could have been death for his part in the bali bombing, got thirty months in jail. fuck me, you'd get more jail time for not wearing long sleeves while swimming on an Acehnese beach. you'd get more time eating in public during ramadhan. what the fuck are the indonesians thinking? gee, nothing boosts tourism, one of the mainstays of your already shitty-ass economy, like telling a mass murderer he's been a bad wittwe boy and has to go to his woom wivout dinnah.

i wish we could engage the eye-for-an-eye thing here: we could just put him inside one of the casinos they are demolishing to make way for a newer, better Las Vegas and then push the button. splat. no more mr. fuckmullah.

Bashir's sentence shocks world

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A court in Jakarta sentenced the Muslim cleric to 30 months in prison for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, but found him not guilty of three more serious charges, including ordering the attack.

The father of one victim slammed the sentence as representing just two weeks in prison for each Australian killed in Bali.

Judges also cleared Bashir of charges that as the alleged head of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group he planned the 2003 suicide bombing of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta which killed 12 people, and that he incited his followers to launch terrorist attacks.

Bashir, who could be released by October 2006, had faced a maximum penalty of death in the three top charges.

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Regional security officials had expected Bashir to received at least four-year jail term, which would have made it easier to obliterate his influence among Jemaah Islamiyah and other extremists groups, Malaysian security official said.

The relatively short sentence simply means his links with Jemaah Islamiyah must continue to be monitored, said the official speaking on condition of anonymity.

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Brian Deegan, whose 21-year-old son Josh was killed in the Bali blast, called the verdict "outrageous."

"What it represents mathematically is two weeks jail for every man, woman and child that was slaughtered and nothing for those that were inexorably injured," Deegan said in a telephone interview. "As far as I'm concerned there is not a shred of justice here."

full AP article here.