Smiling song of death by Bali accused *The West Australian* Fri Aug 1 2003 p 7

DENPASAR

A KEY Bali bomb suspect said yesterday he was ready to become a martyr, and sang self-composed ditties urging followers to get rid of unbelievers.
   Next Thursday Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, a 41-year-old former repairman, will become the first to be sentenced for planning and carrying out the October 12 bombings which killed 202 people including 88 Australians.
   Smiling and occasionally singing his songs, he said: "It's a martyr's death I am looking for. If it is a martyr's death I won't feel it, but other kinds of deaths will be really painful.
   "If I die there will be a hundred more Amrozis. You can't stop us. It will never end."
   Soon after his arrest in November, Amrozi was dubbed the "smiling bomber" after he outraged survivors and relatives of victims when he appeared giggling before television crews.
   He has said he took part in the attack to avenge the suffering of Muslims at the hands of the United States and Israel and their Christian allies.
   Yesterday, handcuffed and wearing a colourful shirt and white knitted prayer cap, he met his defence lawyers for a final

consultation before the verdict, then spoke to reporters for about 10 minutes and sang a song he composed in jail.
   "Here we are, the army of God," he sang. "We do not fear the death penalty. We must go on with jihad (holy war), whatever may be, even if we are separated from soul and body."
   He ended by singing: "Banish the Zionist bastards! Banish the filthy Christians!"
   Amrozi was the first of 35 suspects to go on trial over the bombings, which have been blamed on the South-East Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.
   A witness in the trial of another alleged Bali bomb plotter said yesterday some of the money to fund the attack came from the international terror group al-Qaida.
   Speaking by tele-conference from Kuala Lumpur where he is under arrest, Wan Min Wan Mat admitted he had given about $54,000 to defendant Muklas, who is accused of leading the attack.
   "I was told that the source of some of the money was al-Qaida," said Mr Wan Min, who said he had received Jemaah Islamiyah training in Malaysia with Muklas.
   Prosecutors have alleged the money was used to buy explosives and fund accommodation for the bombers. -- AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS

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