Security tight ahead of Bali bombing executions

[Coventina]

Source: Associate Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Police tightened security across Indonesia Friday and braced for possible terrorist attacks ahead of the executions of three Islamic militants convicted in the 2002 Bali bombings.

Tourist destinations, vital installations and Western oil companies were under heavy guard, national police spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira said.

The government has said the three men sentenced to death five years ago for planning and helping carry out the Oct. 12, 2002, twin nightclub attacks that killed 202 people will go before a firing squad within days.

Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim, and Ali Ghufron have shown no remorse for the bombings and have publicly expressed hope that their executions would trigger revenge attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation.



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[Kajsa]

1. I would not travel to Indonesia right now.

:(

[Coventina]

2. Indonesia Islamists protest bombers execution plan

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE49U2UM20081031

SOLO, Indonesia (Reuters) - Over 100 members of a hardline Islamist group staged a protest in Indonesia on Friday against the planned execution of three militants on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people.

Indonesia has said it will execute the three men -- Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Mukhlas, also known as Ali Ghufron -- in early November, but has not specified a date.

The protesters from Ansharut Tauhid -- a new hardline group led by firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir -- said they would continue the fight of the three bombers, who were sentenced to death in 2003.

"Amrozy et al, we are the successors of your fight," read a poster held by a man whose face was covered with a scarf at the rally outside the police and prosecutor's offices in Solo, about 500 km (310 miles) from the capital, Jakarta.

[cobalt1999]

3. Good riddance boys!

I won't shed any tears over you either.

[Hulk]

4. They need to fry in hell...if there is in fact...for the pain and suffering ....

...they are responsible for. Innocent young people, with so much future....wasted!

[Turbineguy]

5. What punishment

to wait so long for their virgins!