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| Bali bomber 'preaches by phone from jail' |
| 2007-02-05 |
| ONE of the Bali bombers on death row for the 2002 attacks has preached to Muslim militants by mobile phone, police chief General Sutanto said in a report to members of Parliament released today. In the report on recent violence in the religiously divided town of Poso, on the island of Sulawesi, Gen Sutanto said one arrested militant identified as Sahal told police Bali bomber Mukhlas had continued to give sermons by phone to Muslim congregations in Poso. "Sahal explained that Mukhlas, the death-row Bali bomber, often gave Islamic sermons from the Kerobokan jail in Bali by handphone to the congregation in Poso," he said in the report. The report, in which Gen Sutanto tried to explain the links between Muslim militants in Poso and radical Muslim groups and individuals in Java, did not say when he preached. Mukhlas, alias Ali Ghufron, is one of three men sentenced to death for their key roles in the 2002 nightclub bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. All three were moved to a high-security island jail off the southern coast of Java in October 2005. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 Doesn't say he used a cellphone. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-02-05 18:49 |
| #3 Simpler to install cell-freq jammers in the jails. |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-02-05 17:37 |
| #2 Big floods down there, from what I hear. Be a shame if he was found face down in one... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-02-05 15:10 |
| #1 Fire/Arrest the person who let him use ANY telephone while on death row. That's how breakouts are planned. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-02-05 14:16 |