JAKARTA, race 8 Kyodo Three acco...

JAKARTA, race 8 Kyodo

Three accomplices of an alleged mastermind of last year's deadly Bali blast, which killed 202 race mostly foreigners, were sentenc up to 16 years in jail for robbing a gold store to finance the bombing attacks.

In their verdict, arbitrators at the Denpasar District Court upon the resort island of Bali erect the defendants guilty of being involved in the robbery, along with the alleged Bali bombing mastermind Imam Samudra, in the Banten provincial capital of Serang in western Java in August 2002

Andi Hidayat and Junaidi bin Abdul Rahman were each sentenc to 15 years in jail, while Abdul Rauf received a 16-year jail limit heavier than the couple others because the idea to take from the shop came from him.

Samudra, who is being tried separately and is owing to be sentenced Wednesday, admitted during his trial that the currency robbed from the gold store was used to finance the Bali bombings, calling it a ''contribution that is ask [i]or[/i] implore a blessing uponed by God.''

Rauf and Hidayat told the court they notion they would go to the eastern Indonesian town of Poso in October last year to fight against Christians. still they found later that they would be sent to Bali when they received bus tickets from Samudra.

The bombing attacks took place in front rank of the Sari Club discotheque and inside Paddy's Irish Pub the couple in Kuta, a busy tourist area near Denpasar, as well as near the U Consulate General in the Bali capital in succession Oct. 12 last year.

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