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Indonesia: 36 Bali jihad bombers who murdered 92 Australians are freed

May 3, 2014 6:29 pm By Robert Spencer

Bali BomberOne might almost get the impression that the Indonesian government was sympathetic to these jihad terrorist mass murderers. But surely that couldn’t be it, could it? Everyone knows that the Indonesians are moderates, and eschew all “extremism.” Don’t they?

“Paradise for terrorists: 36 Bali bombers that killed 92 Australians are walking free,” by Paul Toohey, News Corp Australia, May 4, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):

FOR the survivors of the Bali bomb attacks it is a terrifying tally, but for the families of the 92 Australians killed it is simply heartbreaking.

All 36 Indonesian terrorists who were sentenced to anything less than life for their parts in the 2002 and 2005 bar and restaurant ­attacks, which killed a further 130 victims, are now free.

And up to 100 more terrorists convicted for other ­attacks on local and western interests in Indonesia will be freed in the coming year, ­according to a leading expert.

Only five men from the two Bali attacks remain ­behind bars on life sentences. Indonesia’s Justice and Human Rights Ministry said they were not entitled to ­remission or clemency.

Close to 50 people, most of them members of hate group Jemaah Islamiyah, were involved in planning and executing the 2002 Bali attacks. Most served sentences ranging six years or less to 18 years.

They include the men who recruited the suicide bombers, drove bomb-laden vehicles or built suicide bomb vests, to plotters, financiers and others who sheltered the world’s most-wanted terrorists.

Those now free include Abdul Rauf, who was sentenced to 16 years for recruiting the 2002 Bali suicide bombers, and Mohammad Cholily, who assembled the three suicide bomb vests used in 2005.

Cholily was released last year after having 11 years cut from his 18-year sentence.

At his trial in 2006, Cholily expressed regret that he had been forced to reveal the location of bomb expert Dr Azahari bin Husin, who advised on how to make the 2002 and 2005 bombs, and was gunned down by police in 2005.

“I feel guilty, because my words caused the death of a man,” said Cholily, referring to terrorist Azahari rather than the 20 people, including four Australians, who were killed died in 2005. Masykur Abdul Kadir, who helped the bombers rent a house in Bali and drove them around surveying targets, was released in 2010 after serving seven years of his 15-year ­sentence.

Anif Solchanudin, who sheltered terror mastermind Noordin M Top and helped plan the 2005 attacks, was ­released in July last year after also serving only seven years of his 15 years.

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  1. M says

    May 3, 2014 at 6:50 pm

    I look forward to the stories in the jihad watch e-mail but I have to admit being frustrated that no one can stop this group. When is the world going to wake up? We need stronger policies and stronger action. Maybe we need to start a grass roots group. I don’t know. But I do know the stories in this blog are unacceptable for decent people around the world.

    • JIMJFOX says

      May 4, 2014 at 6:19 am

      http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/10/30/france-generation-identitaire-young-counterjihadist-group-stages-brilliant-anti-mosque-effort/

      Come on, USA- here’s your example

  2. Rob says

    May 3, 2014 at 6:55 pm

    This not ‘unconnected’ with the spat between Australia and Indonesia over the boat people.

    • JIMJFOX says

      May 4, 2014 at 6:14 am

      Care to explain your claim??

    • gravenimage says

      May 5, 2014 at 11:43 pm

      Rob, pious Muslims are slaughtering Infidels all over the world—and Muslim governments are going easy on them or even lauding them as heroes.

      To think that this is all just some discreet matter of immigration politics is ridiculous.

  3. Champ says

    May 3, 2014 at 8:18 pm

    36 Bali jihad bombers who murdered 92 Australians are freed? …wow islam and company can do no wrong!

    Indonesia, just another islamic hellhole …

    • umbra says

      May 4, 2014 at 6:08 am

      Most definitely a hole, not just any ordinary hole, but the largest hole.

  4. jewdog says

    May 3, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    Islamic justice: Infidels can do no right and believers can do no wrong.
    And I thought kangaroo courts were only in Australia.

  5. john spielman says

    May 3, 2014 at 9:25 pm

    LESSON TO BE LEARNED :NEVER, NEVER, EVER, VISIT NOR DO BUSINESS IN A MUSLIM DOMINATE COUNTRY!!!!!!!

  6. Curious Teenager says

    May 3, 2014 at 10:33 pm

    All this means to me is that the ignorance of the world will continue and we’re digging ourselves into a hole that gets deeper by the day. Thanks a lot for leaving this for my generation to clean up, world leaders who are blinded by their efforts to make a happy, “coexistant” place. I hope and pray that people my age will see the truth sooner than later.

    • Rob says

      May 3, 2014 at 10:40 pm

      I’ve been aware of this for 40 years.
      At that time,in a fit of feel good inclusiveness, my country appointed a Cabinet Minister with an Ethnic Affairs portfolio.
      At the conclusion of his tenure, he was asked which group he found most difficult.
      His prompt response was;
      ‘Muslims. They have such a huge sense of entitlement’.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        May 5, 2014 at 1:13 am

        Rob – you’re an Australian?

    • umbra says

      May 4, 2014 at 6:17 am

      Standard procedure – fools creates the mess, responsible individuals then will have to clean up later.

  7. Jay Boo says

    May 3, 2014 at 11:01 pm

    In spite of Islam’s violence it is a just a nasty gasping cockroach desperate for attention.
    Reveal the true meaning in what Muslims do and say
    and it will whimper in shame and crawl
    back six feet under the clay.

  8. apran says

    May 3, 2014 at 11:24 pm

    Just a reminder, the brutal killers of the Ahmadiyah people in Cileungsi, West Java several years ago only received 3 months prison maximum, while the survival victim received 6 months prison.

    And hardly anybody who attacks church(es) will spend a day in prison in Indonesia, if the police arrests them, and it is a big if.

  9. Roxane says

    May 3, 2014 at 11:47 pm

    This article shows the utter contempt islam has for those who are not muslim. Yet there are people in the West wringing their hands over muslim “rights”.

  10. Michael Copeland says

    May 4, 2014 at 3:50 am

    “Hate group” Jemaah Islamiyah says Paul Toohey of News Corp Australia, thereby implicitly separating it from mainstream Islam. Not so fast, Mr. Toohey.
    Jemaah Islamiyah is self-identified as Islamic. It promotes Islamic law. Islamic law dictates hatred:
    “As a muslim I must have hatred for everything which is non-Islam”,
    Anjem Choudary.
    “Battle, animosity, and hatred, directed from the muslim to the unbeliever is the foundation of our religion. And we consider this a justice and kindness to them.”
    Osama bin Laden
    “excellent pattern …animosity and hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone.” Koran 60:4, part of Islamic law.

    Islam is one huge hate group.

  11. Andy says

    May 4, 2014 at 4:05 am

    Jihadist are welcome in Indonestan

  12. Navy Vet says

    May 4, 2014 at 7:02 am

    Maybe it’s time for Christians to quit turning the other cheek. Eye for an Eye and a THOOTH for THOOTH . Only give it back a thousand fold.

    • Charli Main says

      May 4, 2014 at 7:42 am

      Now isn’t that the truth!!! Turning the other cheek has never won a war yet.
      We are faced with a global pack of Jackals. The more we run, the harder the jackals chase.
      They are NEVER going to give up, until we turn and fight them.

  13. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 5, 2014 at 1:42 am

    Just to remind ourselves.

    NOTE – This will be a long posting. I hope the links still work, but just in case, or in case they break in future, I am including substantial excerpts.

    Rough overview, here

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Bali_bombings

    Links with fairly detailed descriptions of what happened when pious Muslims attacked people – overwhelmingly non-Muslim – in nightclubs on (majority-Hindu) Bali, Indonesia, on 12 October 2002.

    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/18/1034561316708.html

    The last dance
    October 19 2002

    ‘They were ready for a party, with no thought of the tragedy to come. Their story, through the day, the night and the horrors that followed, is told by Philip Cornford and Herald reporters.”…

    There would have been a lot more dead that night, inside the attacked buildings and among the wounded survivors afterward, if many of the non-Muslims engulfed in that horror had not done what non-Muslims very often do…**cooperated and helped each other**.

    Such as young footballers, suddenly displaying the chivalry of medieval knights:

    “Sari’s went up in a millisecond,” said Simon Quayle, one of 20 footballers from Kingsley Football Club in Perth who were in the bar. “The next thing I knew I was under the roof. I pushed it off me **and grabbed Kalan Zomer [a teammate] and we pulled a couple of girls out. One … had no life in her … she was definitely dead. We made it up a wall, up some crates, helped some girls up ** [my emphasis – dda}… the heat from the flames that were 15 metres away was burning my neck. It was unbearable. I had to jump down off the wall, eight, 10 metres, into another wall and slid down to take the impact. ** From that point I was looking for my teammates and helping people so they did not have to make that jump.** {my emphasis – dda} I can’t believe I’m alive. Eight of our boys are missing.”..

    And six young guys from a surfing club in Sydney:

    “The six young surfies from Engadine were into their second beers in the Sari when the first blast jolted them. About four seconds later the second explosion blew the bottles of beer from their hands and threw the group backwards two metres. Their ears were ringing. “It was AC/DC times 100,” Andrew Miller said. There was an unbelievable silence. “It was probably only a split second, but it was total silence,” said David Roberts.

    ‘Then came the hysteria.

    “The flames, the roof totally collapsed, people were definitely going to die … it was just a mad scramble to try to get out. We were trying to yell and find each other. We heard each other’s voices and then stuck together really tight. There was dust everywhere from the roof falling in. You were forced to take a gulp of it, really disgusting dust in your throat.”
    ‘At first it was pitch black. Then they saw an ominous orange glow from the fire, silhouetting desperate people as they sought to escape.
    ‘Luke Gordon said: “We realised that if we didn’t get out now that it was over. That fire, you could just see it getting bigger and bigger.” David McKay said: “I thought we were trapped, that there was no way out.”
    ‘Holding onto each other, they made it to the back corner of the Sari Club where there was a three-metre-high wall with a poster of the cartoon character Scooby-Doo drinking Jungle Juice.
    ‘Roberts scrambled onto the wall and hauled up Gordon and Brett Russell.
    McKay, Miller and Robert Meredith stayed on the ground, boosting people up to their mates.
    ‘Roberts perched, one arm holding on, the other thrusting each grateful person over an alleyway with a two-metre drop.
    ‘Gordon and Russell, clinging to a rooftop, dragged them to safety.

    ‘Roberts said: “We must have done that for 30 or 40 people until the heat just got so intense we couldn’t stand there anymore or else we would have died.
    We were just trying to get some order, there was so much panic everywhere, it was crazy.
    You just did what you had to do without thinking of the consequences for yourself.
    There were lots of women, for some reason. You could just see the helplessness in their eyes when they saw that wall … we did what we could.”
    Russell said: “It’s the faces of the people you made eye contact with I’ll never forget. For the ones you just passed on, it’s okay, but the ones you looked in their eyes, I can’t get them out of my head, the blood down the faces, their fear.”
    ‘McKay said: “It was just like in a nightmare, it was like their muscles weren’t working and they couldn’t speak or move.”

    ‘Roberts said: “They’d made it there but there was no way out – they were just faces of total helplessness, complete desperation …
    Funny things are coming back … there were foreigners trying to say ‘thank you’ in English.”

    ‘Gordon said: “There was one large woman, about 45, in a cossie [sic: bathing suit, swimming gear – dda] and sarong, reaching out to me like a little kid with a look – ‘just help me, help me’. Many of the girls seemed too shocked to function.”
    ‘Roberts said: “The fire was coming and coming and you knew that people were going to die, there was about 10 feet of breathable air down there. We had to leave or we’d be dead. I knew there wasn’t much time. The heat felt like we were melting, you had to hold your hands up to try to shield yourself. I said, ‘Come on, we have to go’.
    ‘Luke ran back, I had to tell him, ‘No, you’re coming with me’.
    “When we left, there would have been still another 30-odd people at the base of that wall, screaming, but there was nothing more we could do.”
    {But there were most likely 30 or 40 people whom they *had* saved, who would have died, without their quick thinking and teamwork – dda}.
    ‘A toilet block wall collapsed, trapping Meredith.
    ‘He forced his way out, running barefoot up a burning staircase. His mates had an agonising two hours before they found him.
    ‘Meredith said: “I thought we’d get out okay, even when the roof collapsed. Maybe it was the teamwork, the mateship we’d got from being on that boat, but somehow we just worked together despite the chaos. It must have been adrenaline.”

    ‘Many of those who got out were so badly burnt they died on the street.
    ‘** People took risks helping the victims””{my emphasis – dda}, dragging them away from the conflagration, which quickly spread to neighbouring shops in which the shopkeepers and their families lived.”…

    Another article focusing on the six young men from the Sydney surf club and their life-saving game of “Pass the parcel”.

    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/15/1034561160086.html

    Surfers saved lives with a human chain gang
    By Sarah Crichton 
October 16 2002

    The total number of dead – 202, including 88 Australians (Australia lost the greatest number of people); 38 Indonesians, probably mostly Balinese non-Muslims; then 23 UK citizens, 7 US citizens, 6 Swedes, 6 Germans, 4 Dutch, 4 French, 3 New Zealanders, 3 Danes, 3 Swiss, 2 Japanese, 2 South Africans, 2 South Koreans, 2 Canadians, 2 Brazilians, and one each from Greece, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Ecuador and Taiwan, plus two whose nationality is “unknown”.

    Here’s the full list of victims: their names and nationalities.

    http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2012/10/10/bali-bombings-full-list-victims-names

    There were also 240 people injured, many of them maimed for life.

    The second lot of attacks, on October 1 2005, killed 20 people (including 4 Aussies) and injured over 100.

    • gravenimage says

      May 6, 2014 at 12:09 am

      DDA, thank you so much for reminding us of how much worse this atrocity would have been were it not for brave and compassionate Infidels working to save people.

      There are similar stories from the World Trade Center on 9/11 and in the London Tube on 7/7.

      Compare this to the Mohammedans who caused this horror.

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