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Publication: The Sydney Morning
Herald
Date: April 14, 2004
URL: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/14/1081838758633.html?oneclick=true
The mastermind of the Bali bombings,
Imam Samudra, has issued a message to Australians saying he is a winner
following the blasts which killed 202 people.
Samudra has been sentenced to death
under Indonesia's anti-terrorist laws for planning, financing and carrying
out the October 12, 2002 attacks on two nightclubs in Kuta, which killed
88 Australians.
He is on death row in an Indonesian
jail, along with co- conspirators Muklas and Amrozi.
But Samudra said he welcomed death
because it meant he would go to an Islamic paradise for killing Christians.
"We kill to get peace," Samudra
said in an interview with Sydney radio 2UE.
"I want the Australian people and
the USA people (to) feel the pain. I also I want to say to them 'I win'."
His view of paradise was that it
held the promise of 72 women for single men, but only 23 women if a man
had been married on earth.
"(I would be) very, very happy (to
die) because it's the key to paradise. Everything will be very, very nice,"
he told interviewer Justin Hale.
Samudra said there were many more
martyrs willing to attack Australia and the US in the name of Islam.
"(There are) more than billion Imam
Samudras around the world who will attack Australia ... who will kill John
Howard, Bush, Colin Powell, Tony Blair ... ready with their souls, their
bombs, their guns," he said.
