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| School head visits Bali bombers |
| 2004-02-20 |
| THE principal of a Jemaah Islamiah-linked Indonesian boarding school visited the Bali bombers in jail this week, declaring them his "brothers". Principal Zakaria visited the three Bali bombers sentenced to death - mastermind Mukhlas, Imam Samudra and the so-called smiling bomber, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim - as well as Ali Imron and Mubarok, both serving life sentences. Zakaria is in charge of about 170 students aged from 12 to 20 at his East Java Al-Islam school. May God... ooppps Allah help them He has in the past called the bombers heroes and condemned the West as corrupt. He also applauded the deaths of 202 people in the 2002 Bali bombings, saying foreigners in Bali were "like animals". Just a reminder, Indonesia is Austrila’s next door neighbour Ali Imron and Mubarok once taught at his Al-Islam school in the village of Tenggulun. The trio of Bali bomber brothers, Ali Imron, Mukhlas and Amrozi, lived in Tenggulun before their arrests, and Mukhlas’s older children now go to the school. The principal said he first met Imam Samudra in prison, but he had known the others for years. "The meetings were very enjoyable; we talked about family things," he said. "I asked them to be patient, and told them I would guard their families patiently." Zakaria said all the condemned men were physically and spiritually well, and had no fear of death. "They have no fear, even more than that, they just laugh," he said. "It’s no problem. They have no fear because their purpose was to serve God, and execute jihad." Methinks Zakaria is well overdue a forceful "reality check" Zakaria also dismissed claims of a rift between the Bali bombers on death row and the penitent Ali Imron and Mubarok, convicted to life in prison. "The news report that there is a break between Imam’s group and Ali Imron’s group is not true," he said. "It was just made up by a journalist. When I met them, they said there were no problems." All lies etc. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 Principal Zakaria ought to join these guys for applauding murder. They all can have a grand old time ruminating about the good olde days before the three bad guys get their due. His little jihad factory school ought to be shut down and the 170 students depolluted from the crap that he and his staff have been stuffing into the kids. Just think, at that school 170 potential bombers and suicide-types are being made under the noses of the Indonesian government. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-2-20 10:48:09 PM |