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| | AM - Abu Bakar Bashir awaits verdict |
 | | LINDA MOTTRAM: But first this morning, the radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, accused of being the Emir or supreme leader of the extremist Jemaah Islamiah movement, awaits a verdict today that could send him to jail for the rest of his life. |
 | | But those who have leaned towards supporting Abu Bakar Bashir see a deeply flawed case, prosecution claims are a conspiracy, they say, engineered by forces outside Indonesia and driven by witnesses who didn't even appear in court. |
 | | TIM PALMER: In Jakarta, it's considered certain that the grey-bearded radical cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, will by tonight be sentenced to a lengthy prison term for treason, specifically for planning to overturn the Indonesian state and along the way, bomb churches and plan to assassinate then Vice-President Megawati. |
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