Execution looming for Bali nightclub bombers

by Tina Kells | August 27, 2008 at 10:08 am | 84 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

Time is running out for the Bali nightclub bombers, Amrozi Nurhasyim, Imam Samudra and Ali Ghufron, and the convicted terrorists wouldn't have it any other way. The men want to die as martyrs for their cause.

"To die a martyr's death is my wish and dream," Samudra and Ghufron wrote in a letter provided by their legal defense team, according to The Jakarta Post. "If God has predestined me to be killed by infidels, as well as hypocrites by way of execution, it means God has fulfilled my wishes... Praise be to God."

For the past five years the three men have been on death row in an Indonesian refusing to seek clemency. This week letters were sent to their family members telling them to prepare for the execution.

Nurhasyim, Samudra, and Ghufron were convicted in the 2002 bombing of a nightclub in the popular tourist town of Kuta, Bali. 202 people were killed in the attack, mostly Indonesians and Australians.