HUNDREDS of emotional supporters of the Bali bombers have clashed with police in Tenggulun today as the bodies of two of them arrived at their home village.
Heavily armed police could not control the 500-strong crowd which surged around the ambulances carrying the bodies following their execution overnight.
Clashes broke out and the police were driven off the road amid shouts of “Jihad!” and “Get out!”
There were similar scenes in the west Java town of Serang as Imam Samudra's body was paraded through the streets between his local mosque and graveyard, shrouded in a black cloth bearing a Koranic inscription in Arabic.
Members of a radical group headed by hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the co-founder of Jemaah Islamiah, who was jailed on a conspiracy charge related to the bombings before being released, pushed people aside to make way for the body.
Westerners in both villages were verbally abused as "infidels" and told to leave.
The three Bali bombers were executed on an Indonesian island earlier today for their lead roles in the 2002 nightclub bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Earlier, the family of Mukhlas and his younger brother Amrozi said the bombers had been executed along with Imam Samudra just after midnight local time (4am AEDT) on Nusakambangan Island, in Central Java, where they had been jailed.
“Our family has received news of the execution ... May our brothers, God willing, be invited by green birds to heaven now,” Mohammad Chozin, a brother of Mukhlas and Amrozi, said in Tenggulun.
“We're now handling the preparations to bring the bodies back, which may take two hours,” he said outside an Islamic boarding school in the east Java village, as supporters shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greater).
Indonesia's Attorney General's Office this morning confirmed the executions had taken place.
“At 12.15am, the convicts ... were executed by shooting and followed up with an autopsy,” spokesman Jasman Pandjaitan said.
“They have been stated as dead. At this moment the bodies are being washed by the family.”
Attorney General Hendarman Supanji is due to hold a press conference in Jakarta at 11am local time (3pm AEDT).
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Barack Obama Victory and is Declared the Winner of the Us Presidential Elections
The US Presidential election campaign has been rough. Insults and rumours has been the order of the day.
Now the winner has been declared and it is time for serious business. To deliver the promises he gave to the voters during the campaign.
The Presidential elections this time around was the most expensive one in the US history. Both candidates had a good campaign machinery with Obama’s more effective due to the huge sums of dollars raised through private donations.
The campaign had racial overtones and if the winner does not handle the situation well before inauguration day, the Americans will find themselves in trouble with large riots in large cities.
Those who were entusiastic to have Obama as the winner will now have to worry about his safety and remain hopeful that he does not get assassinated by those motivated by racial hatred. It is going to be a tuff ride for him to govern a nation so divided by racial affiliations.
On the Kenya situation, those who are rejoicing now for having Obama as the US President are surely going to get disappointed in the long run. They rejoice expecting to get help from the US, not knowing that Obama’s duty is to the American people, not the Kenyan people.
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