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Umar Patek accused of making explosives used in 2002 blasts and leaving trail of terror from Indonesia to Pakistan
The trial has begun in Jakarta of the top suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings: a militant known as Demolition Man for his expertise with explosives.
Umar Patek is being tried for his role in the nightclub blasts and is also accused of seeking out and engaging in other acts of terrorism during a nine-year flight from justice that took him from Indonesia to the Philippines to Pakistan. He was captured in January 2011 in Abbottabad, the Pakistani town where US navy Seals would kill Osama bin Laden a few months later.
He is charged with making the explosives used in the Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Patek was tightly guarded as he entered the West Jakarta district court on Monday. He smiled to reporters and photographers but did not respond to questions shouted by journalists.
Wearing a white robe and a white skullcap, Patek, 45, sat quietly as the indictment was read out loud by state prosecutors, led by Bambang Suharijadi.
Patek's real name is Hisyam Bin Alizein and he has several other aliases.
In a 29-page indictment, prosecutors charge Patek with premeditated murder, hiding information about terrorism, illegal possession of explosives and conspiracy to commit terrorism. He faces a possible death sentence.
He is further accused of providing explosives for a string of Christmas Eve attacks on churches in 2000 that claimed 19 lives.
In a re-enactment organised by police in Bali while he was in custody, Patek showed how he and other conspirators stashed a 700kg bomb in four filing cabinets and loaded it into a Mitsubishi L300 van along with a TNT vest bomb.
The van was detonated outside two nightclubs on Bali's famous Kuta beach.
Patek left Bali a few days before the 12 October attacks were carried out, while Imam Samudra and two other masterminds of the Bali attacks – brothers Amrozi Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron – were caught, tried and executed.
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