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...Indonesia Protests over Bali Bomber Executions Three perpetrators of the 2002 nightclub bombings that killed 202 people on the resort island of Bali were executed Nov. 9, prompting demonstrations by Islamic radicals who gathered at their funerals to vow revenge and hail the dead--Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron--as martyrs. Southeast Asian terrorism experts expressed concern that the executions could inspire future attacks and criticized government officials for allowing sympathy for the bombers to grow as the case dragged on. Still, the threat posed by the group behind the attacks, Jemaah Islamiah, is believed to have...
...popular belief is that the Jemaah Islamiyah terror cell that claimed responsibility for the Bali bombs has been decapitated. Three of the key operatives - Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, the smiling bomb builder, Ali Gufron, the devout preacher, and Imam Samudra, the fanatical field commander - have been convicted and sentenced to death, and are in the final stages of the appeals process...
SENTENCED TO DEATH. AMROZI BIN NURHASYIM, 41, the first defendant to be tried in last year's terror attack on a Bali nightclub that killed 202 people; in Bali. Following the sentencing, the former motorcycle mechanic, who has said he wants to be a martyr, grinned and flashed a thumbs-up sign to the courtroom. Nevertheless, his attorneys have filed an appeal...
...Marriott bombing, and the jitters over fresh terrorist plots, come at a particularly tense time for Indonesia. Last week, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, the first man arrested in connection with the Bali bombings, was sentenced to death by a court in the island's capital, Denpasar. Meanwhile, a verdict is imminent for Abubakar Ba'asyir, the alleged spiritual head of JI, who is charged with treason and bombings unrelated to Bali. A conviction for the revered cleric?who denies that JI exists, although he did concede late in his trial that he believed attacks on Christian churches were permissible...
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