 Bali Bomber sentenced to death and is delighted.. | |
This comes from Sky News and in my opinion is a disgrace the way he has acted..
The man found guilty for his part in the Bali bombing punched the air, whooped with joy and gave a double thumbs up as he was sentenced to death.
Defiant Amrozi flashed a broad grin at crying relatives of the dead as he was led out of the court.
The 40-year-old is the first person to be convicted of involvement in last year's devastating attacks, which killed 202 people.
He had admitted to buying the explosives for the bomb and the van in which it was planted but had denied carrying out the attack.
Chief judge I Made Karna said Amrozi had been "legally and convincingly proven guilty of terrorism".
"We hereby ... hand down the death sentence on Amrozi," he added, describing the bombings as a "crime against humanity".
Hundreds of people inside and outside the court cheered as the death sentence was handed down.
Amrozi - the "smiling bomber" - denied the attack was the work of the southeast terror group Jemaah Islamiah - investigators claimed al Qaeda had funded the plot.
Indonesia is trying 38 suspects in connection with the Bali bombings.
Some 22 Britons were killed in attack
The world's most-populous Muslim nation is under pressure to make a strong stand against terrorism, especially after a car bomb killed 10 people and wounded another 150 at a hotel in in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Two of Amrozi's brothers are also on trial. But, as the first suspect arrested, Amrozi has become a focal point of anger.
His giggling delight at the attacks, broadcast in a public police interrogation a month after the Bali blasts, caused shock around the world.
Amrozi's lawyers said he would appeal against the sentence.
Twenty-two Britons and 88 Australians were among those who died in the attacks.
It was the biggest terrorist atrocity since the September 11 attacks.
Investigators say the Sari nightclub and Paddy's bar were "soft targets", attacked because they were frequented by young Westerners and poorly guarded.
JI has been blamed for a series of bombings across the archipeligo in the last few years. | 
