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Indonesian woman wishes to die a martyr, terrorism trial told
Apr 7, 2010, 11:36 GMT
Jakarta - An Indonesian woman on trial for allegedly harbouring a wanted Islamic militant before he was killed in a police raid resisted arrest because she wanted to die a martyr, prosecutors told a court Wednesday.
Putri Munawaroh could face 20 years in jail if found guilty of abetting Noordin Mohammad Top, a Malaysian-born terrorist suspect who was killed in the September raid on a house Munawaroh shared with her husband, Susilo Adib, in Central Java.
Prosecutors said in their indictment that Noordin had stayed in the couple's house for two weeks with three other suspects when police surrounded it, demanding they surrender.
'Putri Munawaroh and Susilo Adib wished to die as martyrs because they wanted to protect their guests,' prosecutors told the trail before the South Jakarta District Court.
Police shot dead Noordin, Adib and another suspect in the raid.
Munawaroh, who was pregnant at the time of the raid, was wounded.
Police said Noordin orchestrated attacks in July on two luxury Jakarta hotels, which killed nine people, and a string of other bombings in Indonesia since 2003.
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