Indonesian militant sentenced for 2001 bombing
By Kenneth Conboy
Solahudin, a 30 year old Indonesian militant, was sentenced to four years on Thursday for helping store explosives that were used in a failed 2001 bombing at the entrance to a shopping mall in Central Jakarta. Their target was not the mall itself, but rather a church congregation that regularly waited for a bus near that entrance. The bomb went off prematurely, taking off the legs of one of the terrorists. One Malaysian militant has been sentenced to death and two Indonesians have already been given life sentences for the incident. Solahudin was arrested in April during a raid on a suspected safehouse used by Jemaah Islamiyah fugitive Noordin Top.