Wouldn’t you be?
An update on this story. “Victims’ families outraged that Bali bombers attended party,” by Mark Forbes and Phillip Coorey in the Sydney Morning Herald (thanks to David):
FAMILIES of Bali bomb victims have expressed disgust that those behind the attacks have been allowed out of jail to party and pray at a senior policeman’s home.
In Bali for today’s anniversary of the 2002 bombings, several Australians who lost relatives in the blasts demanded Canberra protest and Jakarta keep the terrorists in jail.
News that the head of Indonesia’s anti-terror unit, Surya Dharma, hosted 20 convicted terrorists and released Muslim radicals late last month emerged yesterday, with an Associated Press report and photographs from a journalist who attended the Muslim fast-breaking party.
Guests included Ali Imron and Mubarok, who received life sentences for their roles in the first Bali bombings, which took the lives of 202 people including 88 Australians.
Brigadier-General Dharma said the gathering was part of a strategy to win over terrorists.
“We approach the terrorists with a pure heart,” he said. “We are all Muslims. We make them our brothers, not our enemy.”
Craig Salvatore, who lost his wife, Kathy, in the attacks described the news of the gathering between police and terrorists as a “slap in the face”.
“Indonesia should have a bloody good look at itself,” he said.
Yep. It should.