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JAKARTA, Indonesia — One of Indonesia’s most senior radical Muslim clerics could face the death penalty after prosecutors formally lodged terrorism charges against him Wed nesday.
Abu Bakar Bashir, an elderly cleric long accused of being a main terrorist ideologue, was charged with coordinating and financing a militant group that was violently suppressed by the police last year after it set up an armed training camp in the northern Sumatran province of Aceh.
Bashir, who leads an above- ground Islamic organization called Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, was being persecuted to please the United States, his lawyer said.
