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| Bali bombers laugh off pardons | |
| 2005-10-20 | |
THE masterminds of the first Bali bombing have laughingly rejected asking for death row pardons, saying they will answer only to God.
The 2002 bombers, who have all had their heads and beards clean shaven, were led one-by-one into a room with officials from the Denpasar District Court and prosecutors office, as well as two Bali MPs I Gusti Adhiputra and Made Arjaya. The head of the local Cilicap District Court, Robert Simorangkir, was also present at the meeting, where the bombers were shown pardon forms as a legal formality and asked whether they wanted to submit them to the Indonesian president. A laughing Amrozi - dubbed the "smiling assassin" - told the group "You should thank me, because I am brave enough to defy the United States, while you as officials just sit around", Simorangkir told the Media Indonesia newspaper. The bombers, who were moved to Batu Prison on Nusakambangan Island last week from Denpasar, have all been placed in protective custody amid threats of attacks from other prisoners. A spokesman for Indonesia's Attorney-General Abdul Saleh said the Government was hoping to finalise the timetable for their executions before a holiday ending the holy fasting month of Ramadan in early November. "We have a target that before Labaran, we'll have certainty of execution time," spokesman Masyhuar Ridwan said. Bali police chief I Made Mangku Pastika earlier this week warned speeding up the execution process could spark more terrorist attacks by extremist supporters of the trio. Simorangkir said the team would now divide into two, visiting Samudra's family in the West Java city of Serang and the East Java home of Mukhlas and Amrozi in Lamongan to ask if they wanted to submit pardons on the trio's behalf. Samudra's brother recently said the family would do as he wished and waive their right. Presidential spokesman Andi Mallarangeng recently told AAP that all the legal steps would have to be completed before the bombers could be executed. Lawyer for the three Achmad Michdan said he had already received a letter from the bombers asking for a judicial review, based on a Constitution Court decision last year overturning retroactive use of anti-terror laws used to convict the them. | |
| Posted by:God Save The World AKA Oztralian |
| #2 HEEEhHEEE!! HHAHAHA! |
| Posted by: Angeremble Phavirong9848 2005-10-20 06:17 |
| #1 If requests for clemency or pardons are no longer an issue, tuck these maggots in for the dirt nap, pronto! Every minute they remain alive is an additional stain upon Indonesia's already soiled reputation. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-10-20 01:57 |