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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Three Indonesian militants on death row for their involvement in planning the Bali bombings five years ago said on Saturday they were ready to die and would not seek a presidential pardon. Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Mukhlas, also known as Ali Gufron, were sentenced to death for the October 12, 2002 resort island bombings in which over 200 people died. They face execution by a firing squad after the country's top court rejected their appeal. "Clemency is not from Islamic law. I have been living as a Muslim and will die as a Muslim," state news agency...

The bombs that ripped apart Paddys Bar and the Sari Club at the Balinese resort of Kuta on October 12 have reverberated through the surrounding region and exposed the zealots who wish to subdue it to Islam. While jolting the nations of the southwest Pacific into an unprecedented level of fear and alert, the bombs have also laid bare a network of terror lacing Southeast Asia to the Middle East, Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden. New arrests in the past two weeks have also demonstrated a response by police and intelligence agencies that has overcome frequently brittle diplomatic relations, reaching...