Bali Bombing Mastermind to Go Free

(Jakarta, Indonesia) To refresh everyone's memory, over 200 people died in the first Bali bombings in 2002. In my mind, this report just besmirches their memory.

From Xinhuanet.com:

Elderly cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir will be released next week after spending two and a half years in prison for his role in the first Bali bombings in 2002, the Jakarta Post reported here on Wednesday.

"Based on his legal process, the due date is June 14. This is strictly according to the law. There are no strings attached whatsoever. (Ba'asyir) received remissions several times and is about to complete his jail term by that date," Justice Minister Hamid Awaluddin said on Tuesday, quoted by the newspaper.

Ba'asyir, spiritual leader of the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group Jamaah Islamiyah, was given a mere 30 months for conspiring in the attack and then given a seven-month reduction in his sentence due to good behavior.

More than two hundred innocent people are dead and Ba'asyir gets to go home next week. Some justice.