Bali bombers ready to die: report

"This is the happiest period for us, because we are soon to die as martyrs," Ali Ghufron, the eldest of three bombers, was quoted by AFP as telling the Koran Tempo daily from his jail off the southern coast of Java island.

Ghufron, 47, his younger brother Anmrozi and another man, Iman Samudra, were convicted of the nightclub bombings on the resort isle in 2002 that killed 202 people. The attacks were blamed on the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant network linked to Al-Qaeda.