UPDATE: Three Bali bombers have been executed by firing squad on their prison island in Indonesia, according to television station TV One.
Islamic militants Mukhlas, his younger brother Amrozi, and Imam Samudra were put to death for their lead roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings.
The attacks killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Hundreds more were injured when bombs tore through the crowded Sari Club and nearby Paddy’s Bar on October 12, 2002.
The bombers were put to death on Nusakambangan Island in Central Java. The island is home to the prison where they spent their last years.
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Al Jazeera has learnt that the three men sentenced to die for their role in the Bali bombings will be executed in the coming hours.
The twin bomb attacks on the island in October 2002 killed 202 people, many of them foreign tourists.
Barring a last minute change by the authorities, the executions will be carried out early on Friday morning at a prison island off the coast of Java.
The executions are a highly sensitive issue in Indonesia, with supporters of the men vowing to carry out revenge attacks if they are put to death.
Indonesian police have stepped up security across the country amid fears that the execution could spark fresh bombings.
On the island of Bali, police bomb squads have conducted thorough searches around the site of the bomb memorial and elsewhere in Kuta, one of the island’s main tourist areas and scene of the attack.
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A fitting end to 3 terrorists. It is amusing that Al Jazeera states I quote “The executions are a highly sensitive issue in Indonesia, with supporters of the men vowing to carry out revenge attacks if they are put to death’. Unquote
Well I think it is fair to say it was a highly sensitive issue in Australia and for the peoples relatives who were slain in this cowardly act. Indonesia appears to have stumbled along on this but in the end followed through, possibly the though of loosing all those infidel dollars in lost tourism was just too much to bargain away.
Indonesia is a beautiful country, nice people and despite its huge population a potential catalyst for radicalization, the Government needs to continue its show of strength and intensify the hunt for the radicals who would like a repeat of these heinous bombings!
Indonesia will always find friends prepared to help them if they lead from the front and continually demonstrate there is no place in Indonesia for radical terrorists at any level, politically, socially, militarily.