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« on: November 08, 2008, 02:57:04 pm »
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I want proof though. The Indonesians are known for corruption.....I want to see evidence they're dead. These guys killed 202 people and maimed many more....one victim, a twin in her early 40's and a florist owner, lived next door to my aunty...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/09/2414368.htm

You know, that aunty was linked to 3 people's misfortunes due to acts of terrorism....

1. she lived next door to a victim. 2. a former collegue was car bombed by bikies and 3. seeing my house get burned down from arsonists....it sorta of puts a person in the front line of what is going on around the world with these sick criminal acts.
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« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2008, 06:21:14 pm »
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from the ABC website...



Three Bali bombers have gone to their deaths shouting for their God, five years after being sentenced to die for killing 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Crack Indonesian soldiers, handpicked for the job, took aim and shot the Islamic militants through the heart on their prison island just after midnight (0400 AEDT) on Sunday.

The executions reportedly took place in an orchard on Nusakambangan Island in Central Java, where Mukhlas, his younger brother Amrozi and Imam Samudra lived out their last years in a high-security prison.

A source at the prison said the condemned men had shouted "Allahu Akbar", or God is greater, as they were escorted from their isolation cells shortly before the executions.

The news brought mixed reaction in Australia, with many survivors and relatives of those killed expressing relief, but others worried about reprisal attacks.

"At 12.15am (04.15 AEDT), the convicts ... were executed by shooting and followed up with an autopsy," Jasman Pandjaitan, a spokesman for Indonesia's Attorney General's Office, said.

"They have been stated as dead. At this moment the bodies are being washed by the family."

Attorney General Hendarman Supanji will hold a press conference in Jakarta at 11am local time (1500 AEDT) on Sunday.

The family of Mukhlas and Amrozi said they had been advised of the executions and were waiting to receive the bodies, which will be flown to their home village of Tenggulun by helicopter later on Sunday.

"May our brothers, God willing, be invited by green birds to heaven now," the men's brother Mohammad Chozin said outside an Islamic boarding school in the east Java village, as supporters shouted "Allahu Akbar".

Many Australians expressed relief that the men were finally dead, six years after they brought carnage to Bali by sending suicide bombers to attack the Sari Club and nearby Paddy's Bar on October 12, 2002.

The men were sentenced to die in 2003, but five years of legal appeals delayed their executions and exhausted those waiting for justice.

"... we've waited a very long time for this and this is our justice," Sydney woman Maria Kotronakis, who lost two sisters and two cousins, told CNN, struggling at times to speak.

"Finally the moment has come."

Erik de Haart, a member of Sydney's Coogee Dolphins football club who lost six mates in the bombings, said he didn't quite believe the news when he heard it.

"It took a while to sink in. It's been so long that you kind of don't expect it ... you think they've found another excuse not to do it," he told Sky News.

"We can close this chapter of the book and move on a bit."

But he said the grief for his lost mates would never end.

"The guys are never going to come back, all we're left with is our memories and our thoughts of these guys," he said.

Survivor Peter Hughes, of Perth, who suffered horrific burns in the bombings, said the three bombers had paid the highest price for mass murder, but their executions did not bring him any joy.

"These guys went to set about mass murder and paid the highest penalty. It doesn't feel good but they did do the crime and they've paid for it," he told CNN.

Former Adelaide magistrate Brian Deegan, who lost his son Josh, said he was full of trepidation about reprisal attacks.

"I have (a sense of) trepidation as to what might happen as a result of this," he told AAP.

"I'm very concerned about that. There's no shortage around the world of persons that are prepared to commit suicide to achieve a result."

Mr Deegan said he continued to grieve for his son.

"The tears don't roll quite as often, that absolute gut-ache has diminished a bit. But they don't go away."

The bombers' bodies will soon be flown by helicopter to their home villages for burial within 24 hours, in accordance with Muslim custom.

In Tenggulun, sobbing mourners are converging on the home of Amrozi and Mukhlas' mother.

Hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir - the co-founder of Jemaah Islamiah, the group blamed for the Bali bombings - praised the bombers as "holy warriors" during a visit to the village on Saturday.

Security forces are on high alert across the mainly Muslim country, after the bombers urged supporters to carry out revenge attacks if their executions went ahead.

Australian authorities have advised Australians to reconsider the need to travel to Indonesia.
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« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2008, 05:01:29 pm »
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Bali bomber and smiling assassin Amrozi died pale and afraid

By Cindy Wockner in Cilicap

The Courier-Mail

November 10, 2008 01:39am



AMROZI, the smiling assassin, was not so brave when faced with his own death. His older brother Mukhlas was more defiant and praised God to the end.

And when the time came - about 11pm on Saturday, local Indonesian time - to be shackled hand and foot and led from their jail cells to the execution ground, the three Bali bombers accepted their fate without struggle.

Sources inside Batu prison and involved in the execution of Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Mukhlas, aka Ali Ghufron, and Imam Samudra, aka Abdul Aziz, yesterday revealed to The Courier-Mail details of how the trio were put to death six years after their crimes.

One source said that of the three, Amrozi was the least brave and that as his end neared he looked "pale" and afraid.

He was also the quickest to die after all three were strapped to wooden posts and shot at the same time by firing squads.

His older brother Mukhlas was more defiant, repeatedly shouting "Allah Akbar" until his last moments. One source said that even as he was dying he praised God.

It was Amrozi who earned the contempt of Australians and the world when, after his arrest, he smiled for the cameras and took pride in the devastation caused.

When he was sentenced to death, he cheered and gave the thumbs up to judges, then to his victims' families.

The three men had known death was stalking them and, according to jail sources, seemed resigned to their fate.

At 11pm on Saturday, about 30 members of the paramilitary Brimob police, wearing balaclavas to hide their identity, went to the cells of the three men.

The three were shackled hand and feet, chains running from wrist to the ankle.

"They looked like they accepted their fate. They didn't struggle," one witness said.

As they were lead from their cells, their ankles were bound so tightly they had to shuffle.

The rest of the jail was quiet except for the bombers' exhortations of "Allah Akbar".

Other prisoners didn't join in. Several days earlier the bombers had said their goodbyes to prisoners and guards and asked for the traditional Muslim forgiveness.

"They were shouting but it was not really loud. The situation was quite calm. Not all three of them were shouting (Allah Akbar) at once. It was separately, one then the other," another source said.

The bombers had been praying all afternoon and when the officers came to collect them, Amrozi said he knew it was time. They had also been fasting.

They were taken out to waiting double-cab pick-up trucks. Each man was put in the second row of seats, in the middle and flanked by armed police on either side.

More police sat in the back of the truck.

The cars then drove off in procession to the execution zone of Nirbaya, about 3km south of the jail.

Amrozi was in the first car, followed by Imam Samudra in the second car and then Mukhlas.

It took longer than anticipated to reach the site because a torrential downpour earlier in the evening had made the narrow and windy track slippery and difficult to negotiate.

When they arrived at Nirbaya, the bombers were taken from the trucks and tied to posts. They were ministered to by three Muslim preachers who read to them from the Koran.

It is believed that Amrozi was tied to the middle post with Samudra to his left and Mukhlas to his right and that the men were standing up.

The Bali prosecutor, Ida Bagus Wiswantanu, proceeded to read out the execution order, detailing the men's crimes and their sentences.

Black hoods were put over their heads and at 12.15am the signal to shoot was given.

It was a dark night, the moon shrouded in cloud and there were no stars.

But the air was crisp and clean after the earlier monsoonal rain.

At 12.20am the doctor pronounced them dead and at 12.25am the three bodies were untied and taken to a nearby jail clinic for an autopsy.

Afterwards they were washed in the Muslim tradition by Ali Fauzi, the brother of Amrozi and Mukhlas, and the Muslim clerics.

At dawn the men's bodies were flown in police helicopters to their home villages in East and West Java for burial.

Additional reporting by Komang Suriadi and Gita Anggun Athika.
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« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2008, 10:47:54 am »
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These men acted like they'd never die.

The clerics in Indonesia have condemned them and that is a good sign.
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