Posted on 12/03/2003 10:42:37 PM PST by yonif
IN a bizarre courtroom outburst, an Indonesian sentenced to death for masterminding last year's Bali nightclub bombings boasted today that an army of holy warriors would soon destroy George W. Bush.
Imam Samudra claimed to have sent "5000 troops from the sky" to India, Iraq and Turkey to fight against the US president.
"God willing, Allah's army will win," he yelled before being bustled from the court by police. It was unclear what he meant by his reference to the sky.
Samudra had been summoned as a witness today in the trial of Heri Hafidin, a minor suspect in the October 12 bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
He refused to testify, but he hugged Hafidin before taking the stand and describing himself to the court as a "holy warrior".
The 32-year-old computer expert was sentenced to death in September for planning and executing the attacks. He is appealing the sentence to the Supreme Court.
"God willing, Bush will soon be destroyed," he shouted at reporters.
Samudra has never shown any remorse for his role in the bloodiest terror attack since the September 11, 2001, strikes against the United States.
He used his appearances in court to shout anti-Western slogans and militant Islamic propaganda.
Hafidin is accused of helping hide Samudra when he was on the run in the weeks after the attack.
Indonesian authorities have arrested 35 people in connection with the Bali bombings. Twenty-nine have been convicted with jail terms ranging from seven years to life. Three have been sentenced to death.
The al-Qaeda-linked terror group, Jemaah Islamiah, has been blamed for the Bali attack as well as the August 5 bombing of the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta, which killed 12 people.
Maybe they*re going to fly out of the sky on drones, or even better, maybe they will jump out of planes without parachutes. I*m sure Allah can save them. < /sarcasm>
Firing squad.
I sure hope not. That sounds incredibily painful. LOL!
Yes, but thank our God that 99% of them are incompetent a**holes. Imagine if they were a band of pissed off, blue eyed Swedes!!!
You should see the one on the top of my head. ;)
The prisoner to be executed is taken from his cell before dawn, blindfolded, and tken to a waiting car.
He is then driven to a remote section of beach, with decoy cars dispatched elsewhare to reduce the liklihood of nosy onlookers.
Then as the sky lightens in the east, the condemned man is made to kneel in the sand in front of a post driven into the beach, and is tied frimly to the post.
An apron like garment with an "x" shaped target is tied around his neck.
The firing squad, young men all, then select their rifles from where they have been prepositoned and array themselves in a line in front of the soon-to-be dead man.
Then, as the sun rises over the blue ocean, and with the life affiriming sounds of the nearby village stirring to its day's affairs, with dogs barking, cocks crowing, and children laughing in their parents kindly presence, in a sudden shock of sound, flesh is ripped by bullets, and this world is taken from him.
And all is well.
Firing squad.
Then I suppose he really will be a Holey Warrior.
This guy should be stifled in his attempt in giving Hillary any more politically advantageous idea's.
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