Fears for new Bali bombings as thousands of angry mourners attend funeral of executed 2002 bombers



Fear of violence following the execution of the Bali bombers has led Indonesia to step up security around the resort island.



More than 3,500 police watched ports and tourist areas for any signs of reprisal attacks against Western visitors.



The three Islamic terrorists convicted for their part in the October 2002 Bali nightclub bombings were executed on Saturday by firing squad.



Defiance: The body of Bali bomber Imam Samudra is carried into a mosque for prayers before his burial in Serang - more than 3,500 mourners came out in support of the bombers

Chaos: The coffin of Imam Samudra is paraded between his local mosque and cemetery - western observers were verbally abused as 'infidels' and ordered to leave the town immediately

Thirty Britons were among the 202 killed by the blasts.



Families of British victims said they did not believe justice had been served by the executions of Amrozi Nuhasyim, 47, his brother Ali Ghufron, 48 and Imam Samudra, 38.



Briton Susanna Miller, whose brother Dan was killed in the attacks, said: 'Justice is supposed to have two strands to it. One is to pay recompense for the crime committed and the other is a deterrent.'

A member of the Bali Bombings Victims' Group, she told the BBC: If you undermine the deterrent by effectively encouraging, allowing these people to be seen as martyrs and encouraging the Islamist cause, then no, it makes a mockery of justice.'



Thirty Britons, some of them living abroad, were among the 202 people who died in the October, 2002, bomb attacks on two nightclubs in the popular Kuta district of Bali.



Mukhlas, Amrozi and Samudra shouted 'Allahu Akbar' - God is Great - just before they were shot

But Tobias Ellwood, Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, who lost his brother Jonathan, 37, in the blasts, said that no British citizens had received compensation from the British Government and 'it remains the case that there is no compensation scheme available to Britons affected by overseas terrorism.'

Yet, he said, the UK paid compensation to all the injured, regardless of nationality, following the London bombings.

'Many countries, including the US, Spain, France, Italy and Australia have updated their laws to ensure their respective citzens are protected,' he said.

Anger: Lulu Jamaluddin (in white shirt), the brother of Imam Samudra, one of the executed Bali bombers shouts slogans during the funeral in Serang

The coffin of either 'Smiling Assassin' Amrozi or his brother Mukhlas arrives in Tenggulun where grief and religious fervour boiled over into calls for revenge

Mr Ellwood pointed out that intelligence received by MI5 prior to the bombings warned of an attack on Bali and the threat level to British citizens should have been raised to 'high'.

In Australia this weekend, where families of those who died and victims held beachside reunions in the wake of the bombers' executions, the government had no hesitation in warning people intended to visit the island in coming weeks to think very carefully about their holiday plans.

As the warnings rang out around Australia, Bali police chief Inspector General Ashikin - who uses only one name - ordered 3,500 officers to watch every port and check every boat arriving at the island in case it carried explosives for a new attack.

Aftermath: The destruction in a street in Bali after car bombs killed more than 200 people

The show of force is intended to deter supporters of the bombers, who are seen by many as martyrs and whose deadly cause to 'kill infidels' - Westerners - must be continued.

But for the three killers, their voices ended shortly after midnight with a final shout of Allah Akbar - 'God is Great' - before they were hit in the heart by police bullets as they remained roped, under spotlights, to wooden crosses in an orchard a few miles from their prison.

The killers were tied to wooden chairs in an orchard near the prison, then shot

Official sources present at the executions said that Amrozi, whose defiant smile had become a symbol of the disregard the three men held for the bomb victims, showed fear as he was led to his death.

Amrozi, said sources, was the least brave of the three men, looking 'pale and afraid'.

The condemned men refused to wear blindfolds or hoods and stared back at their executioners.

There was chaos in the villages of the Amrozi and his brother and at the home of Samudra when the coffins bearing their bodies were flown in by helicopter for burial.

Hundreds of supporters screamed for vengeance for their deaths and police found themselves outnumbered as the crowds surged forward to touch the coffins before the bombers were lowered into their graves.

A relative said: 'We believe they will now be carried by green birds to meet Allah.'