We killed too many, say Bali bombers

Three Islamic radicals behind the bombings in which 202 people died talk in prison to our writer about faith, mass murder and their impending execution by firing squad.


The TIMESONLINE is reporting an interview with one of islam’s holy warrior mass murderers for allah. What’s most disturbing about this piece is that we see once again the engendered hatreds that islam indoctrinates it’s adherents with.

I'd suggest reading what I can only describe as the true face of evil. It's a bracing look at the prescribed hatreds and cult-like allegiance that is a mandate of a “religion” that fosters such insensate revulsion for non-moslems.

What of their legal case, I asked. “I am at the mercy of almighty Allah,” Samudra replied. “I don’t care.” Did he deny the charges? “People called me the mastermind of the Bali bombing,” he said. “Maybe right, maybe wrong.

My only mission was to help the Muslims.” And then he said something extraordinary. He claimed the bombers had never meant to kill so many people.

What happened at Paddy’s Bar and the Sari Club was “unacceptable”, he said. Had he made the bomb? “No, no, no!” he said, shaking his head. “I didn’t help to make it, and who made the bomb and when I don’t know.”

The second explosion was much bigger than they had expected, he said. The only explanation, he suggested, was that “the CIA or KGB or Mossad” - those familiar bogeymen of the conspiracy theorist – had somehow tampered with the bomb. “It is very possible,” he claimed. “I learnt about explosives in Afghanistan,” he continued. “As you know, I may be an expert.” The truth may never be known.

Investigators think the actual bomb-maker was a militant named Dulmatin. Police in the Philippines are conducting DNA tests on the body of a man killed in a gun battle with special forces on January 31, which informants say is Dulmatin’s. Samudra’s fastidiousness about mass murder, which some scholars attribute to an element of Islamic theology, did not extend to any remorse. Two months before the bombing, he said, he had studied tourist literature to narrow down the list of targets. Once on the scene, he said, “I observed Zionists. I knew they were using it [the bar] and then also I know I could spread this, with Australia, with Aussies.” No Israelis were killed in the attack.

His targets, he said, were “antiMuslims, especially people from the USA, Australia, members of Nato, elements of what people call the alliance because they know it’s a crusader army”. What would he say to the families of his victims? “To Muslim people I would say pardon - but Muslims only. While the unbelievers - they must be entering into hell. Allah says to all unbelievers that this road will bring you to hell,” he said.

There's probably nothing more telling about this insanity than the comments about "the CIA or KGB or Mossad", and:

"I observed Zionists. I knew they were using it [the bar] and then also I know I could spread this, with Australia, with Aussies.” No Israelis were killed in the attack.

There's just no way to be optimistic about the prospects for accommodation with a death cult.

It's not that I think that no moslems are capable of embracing liberal values of freedom, rights, equality, and pluralism. Obviously, some can. It's just that their religion allows for and encourages off-the-charts hatred and violence toward non-moslems. And in this case, I'm not even talking about what they do to infidels, exclusively. Currently, and even taking a historical perspective, moslems have suffered the most under the hateful precepts of their own ideology.