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Indonesia says to execute Bali bombers Reuters JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia will execute the Bali bombers on death row in early November, the spokesman of the Indonesian attorney general's office said on Friday.

BALI bomber Amrozi bin Nurhasyim can finally be executed after Indonesia's Supreme Court dismissed an appeal against his death sentence. The only obstacle to Amrozi facing a firing squad is the political will of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who knows he will face a backlash from his Muslim electorate over the execution. Dr Yudhoyono - who is more than midway through his five-year term as President and the first Indonesian leader to be directly elected - still has the option of granting clemency to Amrozi, his older brother Ali Ghufron and fellow death-row bomber Imam Samudra. However, that is a...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia has delayed the executions of three Islamic militants convicted for the Bali bombings four years ago that killed 202 people, after the condemned men said they wanted to file a final appeal, officials said Monday. Amrozi Nurhasyim, Ali Gufron and Imam Samudra were among more than 30 people convicted in the 2002 nightclub bombings on the resort island, which officials say were carried out by the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group. They confessed to the crime but last month authorized lawyers to file a final appeal, known as a judicial review, averting Tuesday's planned execution by...

JAKARTA, July 30 (UPI) -- The leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council says he wants to convert Indonesia into an "Allahcracy," it was reported Sunday. Abu Bakar Bashir, 68, free after serving two years in jail for his role in a bombing of two nightclubs in Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, tells the Sunday Times of London that Islamist bombings "are reactions by Muslims to defend themselves." "The democratic system is not the Islamic way," he says. "It is forbidden. Democracy is based on people, but the state must be based on God's law. I call it Allahcracy."...

Jakarta - The mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings threatened on Tuesday to kill United States President George Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon if he ever gets out of jail, where he is waiting to be executed for his role in the attacks that killed 202 people. Imam Samudra made the comments as six militants jailed over the nightclub bombings had their sentences cut by two months in traditional pardons to mark independence day, authorities said. Samudra's sentence was not affected. "If I am freed, I want to continue my Jihad (holy war)," he yelled from inside his...

The mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings has threatened to kill US President George W Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon if he ever gets out of jail. Imam Samudra is in custody waiting to be executed for his role in the attacks that killed 202 people, 88 of them Australians. Samudra made the comments as six militants jailed over the nightclub bombings had their sentences cut by two months in traditional pardons to mark independence day, authorities said. Samudra's sentence was not affected. "If I am freed, I want to continue my Jihad (holy war)," he yelled from...

KEY Bali bomber Muklas has said he would "butcher" Prime Minister John Howard if he was given the chance. "If John Howard appears before me, I'll butcher him," Muklas said in an interview for the Nine Network's Sunday program. He made the threat from his Indonesian jail cell, where he is on death row for authorising the attacks on two nightclubs in Bali at a cost of 202 lives, 88 of them Australian. He pointed to Australia's support for the US-led war in Iraq. "America and Australia and the rest only understand the language of force, the language of bombs,"...

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...