“1001 Jihadis” to Fill in the Ranks of the Bali Bombers
November 12, 2008 – 4:23 pmTenggulun, East Java–The Australian: The delighted family and spiritual adviser of executed Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas have hailed their martyrdom, claiming the brothers died with smiles on their faces and that there will be 1001 jihadis to take their place.
Abdul Rohim, son of Muslim preacher Abu Bakar Bashir who set the bombers on their path of mass murder, said he had examined the pair’s faces after they were shot by firing squads early on Sunday.
“They were smiling, and the perfume of the bodies was not from the soap used to clean them; it was an extraordinary perfume,” Mr Rohim told The Australian.
Mr Rohim warned that the executions could now unleash 1001 jihadis.
“The Government thinks that by executing them it can stop the jihad,” Mr Rohim said.
“But the point is that this will not extinguish the jihad.
“It’s not possible to extinguish the light of Allah. The jihad will always continue.” The boasts came as Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Australia continued to receive credible threats of attacks after Sunday’s execution of the terrorists.
“Regrettably, we continue to receive credible information that Bali remains an attractive target for terrorist activity,” Mr Smith told parliament.
However, the Foreign Minister said there had been no change to the threat level cited in Australian Government travel advice.
It remained at the second-highest level - “reconsider your need to travel” - the level it has been pegged at since the attack on October 12, 2002, in which 202 people, 88 of them Australians, were killed.
The statement came as recently installed Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika - the former local police chief who headed the investigation into the terrorist atrocity - warned against violent retaliation for the executions.
Indonesian authorities also revealed they continued to be at a high level of alert after several bomb threats over the past week, including on Australia’s Jakarta embassy.
“I hope the people will regard (the executions) as a normal thing, and not react excessively,” Mr Pastika said.
He attempted to pour cold water on the claims of holiness being made by the families of Imam Samudra and the bin Nurhasyim brothers.
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