Author: Cindy Wockner
Publication: NEWS.com.au
Date: November 23, 2007
URL: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22808468-2,00.html
One of the key Bali Bombers has issued a chilling
warning from his death row prison cell, warning Australia "will be down
next year".
Imam Samudra and two of his cohorts on death
row for their role in the 2002 bombings were yesterday defiant, unapologetic
and welcoming of their forthcoming executions as they were visited in their
island jail by some of their family members.
Samudra, the so-called field commander of
the Bali bombers, took the opportunity to hold a "press conference"
to correct what he said was misinformation.
He had never said he was sorry about the bombing,
he was only sorry that Muslims died, he said.
"I regret that there are Muslim people
(who died) and Allah akbar if there are kaffir people (unbelievers) who died,"
he said.
As the 2½ hour visit ended, Samudra
beckoned The Daily Telegraph over and issued his warning:
"Australia will be down, next year Australia will be down."
Mukhlas, aka Ali Ghufron, gave a copy of his
final will and testament to his wife and six children during the family visit
yesterday.
During the visit Amrozi, the so-called "smiling
assassin", was smiling and laughing, kissing and cuddling his brother's
young children and telling them that when he was executed as a martyr his
family would be blessed.
"There will be a benefit if I die ...
my children will get the blessing, my family will get the blessing and they
will be happy," he said.
All three men, who played leading roles in
the Kuta nightclub attacks that killed 200 people, including 88 Australians,
say they welcome execution.
They have now lost their final appeal against
the death penalty - a judicial review . But their lawyers say they are now
working on another appeal.
