[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Lawyer: Indonesia Murder Suspects Lured On False Promises
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Lawyer: Indonesia Murder Suspects Lured On False Promises
JAKARTA (AP)--The men accused of killing two U.S. teachers in Indonesia agreed
to meet FBI agents at a hotel in remote Papua province because they were told
they were going to be sent to the United States for trial, one of their lawyers
said Saturday.
But when the suspects arrived at the Amole II Hotel in Timika Wednesday
evening, the agents shoved them into a container truck and delivered them to
Indonesian police, said Anum Siregar. He accused the FBI of entrapment.
U.S. and Indonesian authorities denied the allegation.
The eight suspects now in police custody include Anthonius Wamang, indicted by
a U.S. grand jury in 2004 for the murders of Rickey Lynn Spier, 44, of
Littleton, Colorado, and Leon Edwin Burgon, 71, of Sunriver, Oregon.
The teachers' vehicle came under fire as they returned from a picnic close to a
massive gold mine owned by New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold
Mine Inc. (FCX) in Papua province in 2002.
Suspicion that Indonesian security forces may have been involved chilled
relations with Washington, which had already cut military ties with the
Southeast Asian nation over human rights concerns.
The FBI, working closely with Indonesian police, found no evidence implicating
the military and in November full ties were restored - largely because
Washington wants to help the mostly Muslim Indonesia fight terrorism.
The eight suspects were flown Saturday to the capital Jakarta, where they will
be questioned by police, said national police spokesman Brig. Gen. Anton
Bachrul Alam.
Siregar said the suspects, described as Papuan separatists, agreed to meet U.S.
agents at the hotel because they were told they would be brought to the U.S.
for trial.
They were eager to go, he said, and had already packed their bags and said
goodbye to their families.
"They were promised that once in U.S. custody they could speak freely and that
their safety would be guaranteed," Siregar said. "They were even told they
would be given daily allowances while in the United States."
Officials at the U.S. Embassy and Alam, the police spokesman, said while the
two sides worked together closely, this was not a case of bait-and-switch.
"We got the information that (the suspects) were gathering in the hotel, so we
nabbed them," said Alam. "We don't know anything about entrapment."
Some U.S. observers, meanwhile, said they wanted more details about Wednesday's
arrests to make sure the suspects weren't treated unfairly, and weren't
targeted simply because they opposed the government.
"There are so many unanswered questions in this case, including who these
people are and what role they may have had in these crimes," said Tim Rieser,
an aide to U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy.
A tiny separatist movement has persisted in Papua province, the primitive,
resource-rich western half of New Guinea island. Rights groups maintain that
about 100,000 people have died as a result of military action or atrocities
carried out by Indonesian troops.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
01-14-06 0615ET
Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc
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