JAKARTA, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir is denying testimony at his Indonesian terror trial he visited a Philippines militant training camp in 2000, the BBC said.
Prosecutors in Jakarta had charged Bashir's visit to the camp, which was run by the Muslim militant group MILF, incited followers to carry out a 2003 bombing.
As with every other charge, the 66-year-old Bashir denied it.
"In 2000 I was in Indonesia and I didn't go anywhere," he told the court.
Prosecution witness Yudi Lukito, a Muslim militant now in jail on weapons charges, said he learned bomb-making and to handle weapons at the camp in the Philippine island of Mindanao, and quoted Bashir as saying, "All Muslims are brothers so we have to help each other."
Bashir faces charges that as leader of Jemaah Islamiah, or JI, he incited acts of terrorism, including the 2003 suicide bombing of the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta, as well as charges over the 2002 Bali bombing.
He alleges all the charges were fabricated as part of a U.S.-led conspiracy.
