Indonesian execution of Bali bombers sparks clashes

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TENGGULUN, (Indonesia), Nov 9 (Reuters): Thousands of Indonesians poured onto the streets for the funerals of three militants executed Sunday for the 2002 Bali bombings, causing some clashes between police and emotional supporters.
The three men from the militant group Jemaah Islamiah-Imam Samudra, 38, Mukhlas, 48, and Amrozi, 46 -- were executed by firing squad on Nusakambangan island in central Java shortly after midnight, the attorney-general's office said.
The two explosions on Bali's Kuta strip on October 12, 2002 killed 202 people including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesians.
The bombers' bodies were flown from the prison by helicopter to their hometowns-brothers Mukhlas and Amrozi to Tenggulun in Lamongan, East Java, and Samudra to Serang in West Java.
Tensions ran high as about 3,000 people from west Java cities gathered when Samudra's body, covered in a black shroud with Islamic inscriptions, was carried to a mosque for prayers, with some jostling to touch the body or help carry the bier.
Some shook their fists in the air chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) but others seemed to be just curious spectators.
In Tenggulun, thousands of militant Islamists from groups such as the Islamic Defenders' Front, some wearing white skull caps, had gathered, shadowed by armed police and many reporters.
People chanted "Goodbye Syuhada (heroes)" and "Allahu Akbar" as the bodies of Mukhlas and Amrozi were taken from the mosque to an Islamic boarding school.
Some clashed with police as authorities tried to prevent them from getting too close to the bodies.