Trials start against 4 over Bali bombings

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/09/news/bali.php

Trials start against 4 over Bali bombings
The Associated Press

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2006
DENPASAR, Indonesia Four people suspected of being Islamic militants went on trial Tuesday, accused in the bombings in 2005 on the resort island of Bali. A prosecutor said the attacks had been aimed at avenging the deaths of Muslims killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Security was tight at the trials, the first to be held over the triple suicide bombings that killed 19 people and were blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian terrorist group sometimes linked to Al Qaeda.

Jemaah Islamiyah is blamed for several attacks in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, including the Bali nightclub blasts in 2002 that killed 202 people, most of them foreign tourists.

A prosecutor, Olopan Nainggolan, read from a videotaped statement of responsibility released soon after the blasts by Noordin Top, who is alleged to have been the ringleader, to shed light on the motives of the accused.

"We declare our enemies are those that help the American alliance kill Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan," Nainggolan quoted the statement as saying. "This was revenge for that."

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