December 14, 2010 8:09 PM

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Fresh details of terrorism allegations against radical cleric Bashir released

Indonesian police on Tuesday revealed fresh details of the terrorism allegations against radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. National Anti-Terror Agency director Petrus Golose said the grizzled 72-year-old preacher was assembling a new network featuring some of the region's most wanted militants. At a press conference in Solo city, central Java province, he said Abu Bakar Bashir was the figurehead of a new Al-Qaeda-style terror network. Bashir was arrested in August and remains in custody awaiting trial on charges including inciting terrorist acts, which carries the death penalty. It is the third time the bespectacled cleric has been arrested on terror-related charges since 2002 but police have failed to make any of the allegations stick. He served almost 26 months for conspiracy over the 2002 bombings of tourist nightspots in Bali that killed more than 200 people, before being cleared and released in 2006.

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