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| Woman denies death wish |
| 2010-04-16 |
| [Straits Times] AN INDONESIAN woman facing a possible death sentence for allegedly harbouring terrorist Noordin Mohammed Top said on Thursday she feared she would die during a police raid on her house last year. Putri Munawaroh, 20, was the only survivor of a nine-hour shoot-out with police at her house in Central Java in September, in which Noordin and three other Islamist extremists including her husband were killed. She calmly told the South Jakarta district court she was unable to leave the house during the siege as she was pinned under part of a collapsed roof. 'If I had died then, I might have died a martyr. But I don't want to die... I want to live,' she said as a witness at the trial of Rahmat Puji Prabowo, one of Noordin's alleged accomplices. 'I heard the police asking us to come out but I couldn't do anything because I was trapped.' In her own trial which started earlier this month, prosecutors have described her as a committed extremist who intended to die as a martyr while protecting Noordin, whom her husband had brought home as a 'guest'. But Munawaroh, who has given birth in police custody, said on Thursday she did not know Noordin and was also unaware of illegal firearms and explosives found in her house. |
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| #1 "I would have given Daddy some cold water Coach, but I was still in my Mommas tummy" Bobert "Bobby" Boucher Jr. 1998 |
| Posted by: Bodyguard 2010-04-16 02:19 |