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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...
Amrozi bin Hasyim, his older brother, Mukhlas, and accomplice Imam Samudra were executed by firing squad five years after being convicted for the terrorist attacks that killed 202 people, many of them tourists, on the resort island. The three Indonesians, shot just after midnight, were the first to be put to death under the country's tough anti-terrorism law, after numerous appeals for leniency were rejected by the government. (See pictures of Suharto's Indonesia...
...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...
...hell, you infidels." IMAM SAMUDRA, mastermind of the Bali bombings, to courtroom spectators?including relatives of people who died in the attack?after being sentenced to death in a court in Bali...
...Imam Samudra Alleged operational chief of the Bali attacks Trial Status: Nearing conclusion, with a verdict possible within weeks Most dramatic moment: Samudra's screaming outburst against "infidels" and "crusaders" when confronted by relatives of Bali victims...