Case Study
Bali Bombings
By Aleksandar Najdovski
Describe the details of the case:
On 12th October 2002, a bomb explodes inside an Irish pub in Indonesia. A second bomb exploded in a van outside of a night club. 202 people were killed, including 88 Australians. The last bomb exploded near the American embassy killing no one (ABC, 2003).
A week later after the bombings, Police have arrested more than 30 terrorists’ suspects. Police have arrested a Muslim cleric, Abu Baker Bashir, the leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah. He was apprehended in connection with other terrorist attacks but was suspected that he was involved in the Bali bombings. The planner of the operation of the Bali bombings, Imam Samudra, he was arrested in November 2002, and was sentenced to death. He confessed that he was involved in the attacks, and claimed that in his religion that it was his duty to fight infidels. In December 2002, Ali Ghufron was arrested in Java. He confessed that he was involved in the planning of the Bali bombings, and recruited two of his brothers, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Ali Imron to help transport and assemble the bombs. Both Ghufron and Nurhasyim were sentenced to death, and Imron expressed his remorse and was sentenced to life in prisonment. Dulmatin and Azahari Husin, were suspected of building the bombs, and
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The US refused to hand him over because he is an important asset. According to the United States court files, Hambali had passed $86,000 of al-Qaeda funds to Mukhlas to carry out the bombings attack in Bali on 12th October, 2002, which killed 202 people, that including 88 Australians. United States authorities have held Hambali for over 11 years for interrogation. He was arrested in Thailand in 2003, and then sent off to Guantanamo Bay since 2006, and Hambali and his case is still be handled by the United States (Toohey,