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On that Friday night, he and 25 club members took a bus to Sydney to catch a morning flight to Bali. Three of them - Brad Ridley, Paul Cronin and Greg Sanderson - died in the Sari Club that night. The trio had not even slept a night in their beds at Club Gecko.

rest in peace guys now your killers are executed

Originally published at catloverdoreen.net.

THREE Bali bombers have been executed on an Indonesian island for their lead roles in the 2002 nightclub bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

The family of Mukhlas and his younger brother Amrozi said the bombers had been executed along with Imam Samudra just after midnight local time (4am AEDT) on Nusakambangan Island, in Central Java, where they had been jailed.

Our family has received news of the execution ... May our brothers, God willing, be invited by green birds to heaven now, Mohammad Chozin, a brother of Mukhlas and Amrozi, said in their home village of Tenggulun.

We're now handling the preparations to bring the bodies back, which may take two hours, he said outside an Islamic boarding school in the east Java village, as supporters shouted Allahu Akbar (God is greater).

Indonesia's Attorney General's Office later confirmed the executions had taken place.

At 12.15am, the convicts ... were executed by shooting and followed up with an autopsy, spokesman Jasman Pandjaitan said.

They have been stated as dead. At this moment the bodies are being washed by the family.

Attorney General Hendarman Supanji will hold a press conference in Jakarta at 11am local time (3pm AEDT).

The bombers were simultaneously shot through the heart by crack Indonesian troops assembled to carry out the task.

They were executed in an orchard some 6km from their prison on Nusakambangan Island, Indonesia's TV One reported.

A source at the prison said they shouted Allahu Akbar as they were escorted out of their isolation cells by paramilitary police shortly before their executions.

Australians expressed relief that the men were finally dead, six years after they brought carnage to Bali by sending suicide bombers to attack the Sari Club and nearby Paddy's Bar on October 12, 2002.

... we've waited a very long time for this and this is our justice, Sydney woman Maria Kotronakis, who lost two sisters and two cousins, told CNN, struggling at times to speak.

Finally the moment has come ... we are over the moon.

Survivor Peter Hughes, of Perth, who suffered horrific burns in the bombings, said the three militants had paid the highest price for mass murder, but their executions did not bring him any joy.

These guys went to set about mass murder and paid the highest penalty, he told CNN.

It doesn't feel good but they did do the crime and they've paid for it.

The bombers' bodies will soon be flown by helicopter to their home villages for burial within 24 hours, in accordance with Muslim custom.

In Tenggulun, sobbing mourners are converging on the home of Amrozi and Mukhlas' mother.

Hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir the co-founder of Jemaah Islamiah, the group blamed for the Bali bombings praised the bombers as holy warriors during a visit to the village on Saturday.

Security forces are on high alert across the mainly Muslim country, after the bombers urged supporters to carry out revenge attacks if their executions went ahead.

Australian authorities have advised Australians to reconsider the need to travel to Indonesia.

The 2002 Bali attacks were the bloodiest in a sustained period of al-Qaeda-inspired jihadist violence in the world's most populous Muslim country

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THIS amazing photo shows the chilling details of the execution of two Nigerian drug traffickers who were tied to wooden crosses and shot dead by firing squad in Indonesia this year in the same isolated spot where the Bali bombers will also be executed soon.

The two men were executed on June 26 this year on Nusa Kambangan Island off the coast of Central Java.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal thata series ofpictures, taken two days before the execution and obtained by The Daily Telegraph, chronicle the lead-up to the deaths of Samuel Iwachekwu Okoye and Hansen Antonious Nwaolisa.

Gallery: See the haunting photographs that give the first insight into what faces the Bali Bombers

They show poignant final visits with family, the men being being told by prosecutors the end is near and asked to sign paperwork, given medical check-ups by a prison doctor including heart, pulse and blood pressure checks.

Another picture shows Okoye standing up tall for his height to be measured with a tape measure in order for his coffin to be made.

All the while the pair are surrounded by police and officials involved in the business of death.

Most frightening is the photo here, taken in the night, of the wooden execution cross on which each man was tied, hands behind his back, shortly before midnight on June 26 this year. The picture was taken two days before the execution as officials prepared the site.

The condemned in Indonesia are given a choice - die standing, sitting or kneeling. The execution post is set up with a chair which is then removed if the men decide to die standing up.

The two men were executed in the same spot on Nusa Kambangan Island as where the three Bali bombers - Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, 46, his brother Mukhlas aka Ali Ghufron, 48 and Imam Samudra aka Abdul Aziz, 38 - will soon be shot dead by firing squad.

The Daily Telegraph has learned it is expected the bombers will also be strapped to the same kind of wooden cross before they are hooded and shot through the heart.

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I hope these assholes are executed asap after what they have done

Originally published at catloverdoreen.net.

since we lost some of our local football team in the Bali bombings in 2002. Rest in peace guys - you are remembered.

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Among the Australians in Bali were players and supporters of the Rugby Club of Forbes, a wheat and sheep ranching area of 8,500 people 200 miles northwest of here. On Sunday night, residents learned that 24 of the 25 Forbes visitors were in the Sari Club when it was destroyed.

Three Forbes men are unaccounted for today and two are known to have been airlifted to a hospital in Singapore. The coach of the Forbes team, Brendan Hayes, said: ''It's really terrible. It's like having 25 of your family over there and not being able to do anything about it.''

About 50 players and family members gathered Sunday at the Post Office Hotel in the main street to listen to radio and television reports and make calls for news of relatives to an emergency hot line.

Sue Betland said her two sons, Steven, 21, and Scott, 19, were on their first overseas trip. ''Scott rang this morning to stay he was trying to find Steven,'' she said. ''We think Steven is in hospital somewhere with burns.''

Mayor Alister Lockhart told radio reporters, ''In a much smaller way for the people of Forbes this is what Sept. 11 was for the people of New York.''

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Originally published at Depressed Mama.