The leniency here is an unmistakable indication of how the Indonesian government regards the Bali bombing.
“Bali bombmaker Umar Patek has sentence reduced, Anthony Albanese confirms,” by Tom Lowrey and Anne Barker, ABC.net.au, August 18, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A survivor of the 2002 Bali bombings says the decision to cut the sentence of the bombmaker responsible for the terror attack was a “kick in the guts” for the families of victims.
Perth man Brad McIlroy was just 19 and in Kuta on an end-of-season trip with the Kingsley Football Club when the bombings happened and seven of his mates were killed.
Mr McIlroy said the families of those killed were already preparing themselves for the emotional turmoil of the forthcoming 20th anniversary of the bombings, and the news that Umar Patek would be released early had exacerbated their distress.
“It [the anniversary] really knocks them around quite a bit, and so to have this thrown in as well – it’s a real kick in the guts,” he said.
Sentence cut by five months
Umar Patek was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison in 2012 for his role in the bombings that killed more than 200 people, including 88 Australians.
Prisoners in Indonesia are often granted reductions to their sentence on Indonesia’s Independence Day on August 17.
Patek was granted a five-month reduction, which could mean he would be freed on parole later this month….
Antony Svilicich returned to Perth with burns to 60 per cent of his body and was the last West Australian survivor to be released from hospital after the attack….
He said the timing of the court’s decision was insensitive, calling the order a “joke.”
“They could have done this six months ago, they could have done it in six months’ time.
“They’ve decided to do it six weeks before the 20th anniversary, it’s just rubbing salt into the wounds of all the survivors and all the people who were affected by this tragedy.”
Kagman says
There can be only one answer to all of Islam… and it’s Belt-Fed and Crew-Served…
Cathryn Paradise says
I’m willing to bet he’ll make more bombs to murder more people
John says
Anyone who goes to a Muslim country is a fool. Just like the idiots who go to North Korea on vacation or Afghanistan or Iran to go mountain climbing.
Billy Chickens says
What? No coverage on Jihad Watch of Darya Dugin’s terrorist car bomb murder near Moscow two days ago?
Infidel says
So far, doesn’t look like a jihad attack, nor a communist attack on her. But I do condemn her murder, no matter how repulsive her views might have been
Billy Chickens says
It was probably a Nazi attack.
gravenimage says
No reason to suppose that this was a Jihad terror attack.
But Billy Chickens likely doesn’t suppose this to begin with. She has been lauding Iran and Saudi Arabia on other threads. And note her sneering here about the terrible Jihad terror attack in Bali. Sadly, this does not surprise.
Billy Chickens says
It was probably a Nazi attack. Jihad Watch doesn’t cover those?
wpm says
Putin has many people inside and outside of Russia including the CIA ,some Islamic countries under Russian influence , some mafia type of Russian organizations that want more power that want him gone .Before Jihad watch post articles on the killing maybe some more facts should come out on it, after all Jihad watch is not like the New York Times or CNN that post rumors or fake news. Putin is a killer will do anything to stay in power the people waiting in the wings to take his place are no better many are worst.
gravenimage says
It was an anti-Putin Russian group that claimed responsibility for that car bombing in Moscow:
“Obscure group claims responsibility for Russian car bombing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDisvwsE98Y&ab_channel=DWNews
I am no fan of these mafia tactics.
gravenimage says
Indonesia: Bali jihad bomb maker walks free after killing 202 people
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No one should be surprised.
VICTORMc. says
Islam is the curse of the earth. Indonesia is the very depths of this curse. I am delighted to say the rest of the civilised world ignores this disgusting regime.
NEVER go near the place…The decent business people in Bali must be hating this ‘advertising’ …they ONLY have tourism and nothing else to sell – mainly from and to Oz.
Billy Chickens says
GI relies on German propaganda news while Russian news has identified Darya’s killer as Ukrainian Azov Nazi woman Natalia Vovk. Meanwhile inside the deluded mind of GI is the astounding need to project her feelings onto others by saying I was “sneering” at the Bali victims. That is an incredible lie. However, in fact, it’s GI who sneers at Russians being car-bombed by Ukrainian Nazis. She turns her blinded eyes away from Ukraine’s evil because of her love for her dear leader, the Fuhrer Zelensky. “But…but…Ukraine said they had nothing to do with Darya’s killing! Honest! Ukraine didn’t do it!” The UN will be investigating this which means that Western powers are getting tired of the little Fuhrer in his ridiculous green T-shirt costume.
gravenimage says
More from Billy Chickens:
GI relies on German propaganda news while Russian news has identified Darya’s killer as Ukrainian Azov Nazi woman Natalia Vovk.
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Germany did not make this up. A former member of Russia’s Duma, Ilya Ponomarev, said the explosion was the work of the National Republican Army, which is dedicated to overthrowing the Putin regime.
If Billy Chickens has a problem with this, she can take it up with him.
As for Natalia Vovk, Russia is now claiming that she targeted Darya Dugina instead of her influential father, which doesn’t even make any sense.
More:
Meanwhile inside the deluded mind of GI is the astounding need to project her feelings onto others by saying I was “sneering” at the Bali victims. That is an incredible lie.
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This is what Billy Chickens wrote in her first comment in this thread: at Aug 22, 2022 at 11:01 am:
What? No coverage on Jihad Watch of Darya Dugin’s terrorist car bomb murder near Moscow two days ago?
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So it seems that the Bali attack is of no importance to Billy Chickens, since it does not involve Russia’s supposedly righteous invasion of its neighbors, which is the only topic Billy Chickens has commented on here in months.
Yet more:
However, in fact, it’s GI who sneers at Russians being car-bombed by Ukrainian Nazis.
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I already said that I do not approve of these kind of mafia tactics. So how is that sneering? How is not approving of something actually approval? Billy Chickens of course does not say.
More:
She turns her blinded eyes away from Ukraine’s evil because of her love for her dear leader, the Fuhrer Zelensky. “But…but…Ukraine said they had nothing to do with Darya’s killing! Honest! Ukraine didn’t do it!” The UN will be investigating this which means that Western powers are getting tired of the little Fuhrer in his ridiculous green T-shirt costume.
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The other day Billy Chickens was implying that Russia had to invade Ukraine because President Zelensky had at one time performed a comedy sketch involving a piano. I suppose she disapproved of it–she was never actually clear about this. Now she is enraged over his wearing a t-shirt. Very strange.
Moreover, I never mentioned Ukraine’s denials regarding this incident, because it is obvious that Billy Chickens would just dismiss them, because as Lavrov–lauded by Billy Chickens as “the most brilliant diplomat on the planet”–said any Ukrainians who don’t want to live under the Russian heel are “Nazis”. So citing my having said something I never said–and is obvious that I never said here–is just bizarre, but unsurprising.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
BOYCOTT ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES. THEY ARE CESSPOOLS OF HATRED.
James Lincoln says
The picture of Umar Patek looks like he just ate a live snake…
gravenimage says
Yep.
Ex Sgt Brown says
“Umar Patek was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison in 2012 for his role in the bombings that killed more than 200 people, including 88 Australians.”
How many innocent people do you have to blast to get a sentence stiffer than 20 years?
gravenimage says
Non-Muslims can never be considered innocent in Islam.
Ex Sgt Brown says
that is absolutely true and they’re not even sure about their Muslim brethren…
gravenimage says
Yes–because so many of them are “heretics” or “apostates” or “insufficiently Islamic”.