Скачать или смотреть Prisoner testifies that Bashir is head of Jemaah Islamiyah

(26 Jun 2003)
1. Exterior court building
2. Various shots of security outside court
3. Wide shot of judges sitting down
4. Close-up shot of head judge Mohammad Saleh opening session
5. Alleged terror leader Abu Bakar Bashir walking into courtroom and sitting down, greeted by his supporters
6. Audience
7. Bashir listening
8.SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Mohammad Assegaf, Bashir's lawyer:
"In order to defend our client Abu Bakar Bashir, who is greatly harmed by the testimonies of witnesses through this teleconference, we as the team of defence lawyers hereby reject this session."
9. Defence lawyers walking out of courtroom
10. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Abu Bakar Bashir, Alleged terror chief:
"If I am forced to stay in this room, I will not fight. But I regard myself as a defendant who is not present at this trial session."
11. Alleged Jemaah Islamiyah member in Singapore Faiz bin Abu Bakar Bafana sitting down (through teleconference monitor)
12. Wide shot of courtroom
13. Audience
14. Audience watching Bafana being sworn in through teleconference monitor
15. Bafana being sworn in
16. Bashir not listening
17. SOUNDBITE:(Malay) Faiz bin Abu Bakar Bafana, Alleged Jemaah Islamiyah member
Q: (prosecutor) "To your knowledge, was the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah Ustadz Abdullah Sugkar?
A: (Bafana) Yes
Q: (prosecutor) Did anyone replace Abdullah Sugkar? (as the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah)
A: (Bafana) Yes
Q: (prosecutor) Who is it?
A: (Bafana) Ustadz Abu Bakar Bashir."
18. Policemen and audience
19. SOUNDBITE: (Malay) Faiz bin Abu Bakar Bafana, Alleged Jemaah Islamiyah Member
Q:(prosecutor) "When you attended a meeting (with Abu Bakar Bashir) to discuss the assasination of Megawati, was it discussed the reason why she has to be killed?
A:(Bafana) Abu Bakar Bashir said Megawati and her government is supported by Christian people."
20. Audience
21.SOUNDBITE: (Malay) Faiz bin Abu Bakar Bafana, Alleged Jemaah Islamiyah Member
"We (Abu Bakar Bashir and myself) talked about the plan of attack on churches and the programme of Sheikh (Osama Bin Laden) to attack American interests in Singapore."
22. Security outside courtroom

STORYLINE:

A terror suspect detained in Singapore told an Indonesian court on Thursday that Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir heads the group blamed for the Bali bombings and linked the preacher to Osama bin Laden.

Faiz bin Abu Bakar Bafana, testifying via teleconference from Singapore in the trial of Bashir, also said that the cleric allegedly planned to assassinate Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Bashir, the alleged head of the regional group Jemaah Islamiyah, is accused of treason and a series of church bombings on Christmas Eve 2000 that killed 19 people.

Bashir's lawyer, Mohammad Assegaf, objected to the televised testimony, claiming Bafana, who is in a Singapore prison, was forced to make it.

The defence team walked out of the court in protest as dozens of Bashir's supporters cheered.

Bafana, who is Malaysian and used to own a construction company, told the court he joined Jemaah Islamiyah in 1986 and that Bashir was at his swearing-in ceremony.

He said that at the time another man, Abdullah Sugkar, was the group's leader but that Bashir took over when Sugkar died in 2000.

Bafana said he visited Bashir at an unspecified date in the cleric's Indonesian hometown of Solo, on Java island, and was accompanied by Riduan Isamuddin, or Hambali, who is still at large and believed to be bin Laden's point man in Southeast Asia.




Bashir declined to respond to Bafana's comments.


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