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Reprisals Fear As Bali Bombers Executed -- The Guardian

Jihadists are tied to poles and shot dead by firing squad, despite pleas from victims' families that their sentence could result in further atrocities

Three Islamic terrorists convicted for their part in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that claimed the lives of 202 people - most of them foreign tourists - were shot dead last night by firing squad.

The executions, which had been widely expected, came despite last-minute pleas to the Indonesian authorities from relatives of some of the British dead for the sentences to be stayed, warning that they would be used as a propaganda coup by the militants' supporters and families.

Jasman Panjaitan, a spokesman for the Attorney General's office, told a news conference last night that Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron had been executed on the prison island of Nusakambangan off southern Java.

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My Comment: The threat has always been there .... executing these mass murderers will make no difference.