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Bali bombers sound defiant tone during Eid festivities
Three Islamic militants on death row for the deadly 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali sounded a defiant tone on Wednesday during Eid Al Fitr celebrations marking the end of the Muslim fasting month
- Agencies
- Published: 10:30 October 1, 2008
Nusakambangan: Three Islamic militants on death row for the deadly 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali sounded a defiant tone on Wednesday during Eid Al Fitr celebrations marking the end of the Muslim fasting month
"Please stay out of immoral places, because if my friends bomb the place, there will be casualties," Amrozi, one of the three bombers, told reporters who were allowed to cover the event at a maximum security prison on Nusakambangan island off Java.
Amrozi was dubbed "the smiling bomber" because of his constant grin during the trial after the attacks on Bali's Kuta strip on October 12, 2002 that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesian citizens.
After praying, the two other militants, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra, pointed at several Australian and American journalists and said: "Number one enemy."
Indonesia's attorney general said in August his office would wait until after Ramadan to execute the men, who have refused to seek clemency from Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and said they want to die as martyrs.
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