By Cindy Wockner and Gita Athika
October 23, 2008 12:00am
THE youngest son of one of the Bali bombers has been named after Osama bin Laden, in a twisted tribute to the mastermind of the September 11 atrocities.
Bomber Mukhlas' wife Farida binti Abas yesterday revealed her husband had written to her from jail urging her to bring up their third child in the image of the al-Qaeda kingpin.
Baby Usamah, now aged five, was born after his father and his cohorts Imam Samudra and Amrozi were jailed for the 2002 bombings that murdered 88 Australians.
Asked yesterday if she was indeed raising their third child in bin Laden's image, Farida said: "I think what he meant is what the children think about Islam.''
And asked if she was encouraging Mukhlas's children to be like him, she said: "Mukhlas' sons are my sons too, so the prediction of what they are going to be when they grow up, I leave to Allah.''
As she nursed Usamah yesterday, Farida said she was proud of her husband.
She denied he was a terrorist.
"He is not a terrorist, he is a mujahadin,'' she said.
"A mujahid is somebody who fights based on the Koran, that's what their father is doing.''
Farida also revealed it was she who encouraged him to recently marry a second wife in jail so he would not suffer loneliness.
And women are apparently lining up to marry Mukhlas' little brother, the smiling assassin Amrozi, with their lawyers saying they have a list of 10 would-be wives to add to his recently married second wife.
Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra this week lost their appeal against the firing squad and Indonesia is preparing to execute them by the end of the year. The lawyers have vowed another legal challenge.
October 23, 2008 12:00am
THE youngest son of one of the Bali bombers has been named after Osama bin Laden, in a twisted tribute to the mastermind of the September 11 atrocities.
Bomber Mukhlas' wife Farida binti Abas yesterday revealed her husband had written to her from jail urging her to bring up their third child in the image of the al-Qaeda kingpin.
Baby Usamah, now aged five, was born after his father and his cohorts Imam Samudra and Amrozi were jailed for the 2002 bombings that murdered 88 Australians.
Asked yesterday if she was indeed raising their third child in bin Laden's image, Farida said: "I think what he meant is what the children think about Islam.''
And asked if she was encouraging Mukhlas's children to be like him, she said: "Mukhlas' sons are my sons too, so the prediction of what they are going to be when they grow up, I leave to Allah.''
As she nursed Usamah yesterday, Farida said she was proud of her husband.
She denied he was a terrorist.
"He is not a terrorist, he is a mujahadin,'' she said.
"A mujahid is somebody who fights based on the Koran, that's what their father is doing.''
Farida also revealed it was she who encouraged him to recently marry a second wife in jail so he would not suffer loneliness.
And women are apparently lining up to marry Mukhlas' little brother, the smiling assassin Amrozi, with their lawyers saying they have a list of 10 would-be wives to add to his recently married second wife.
Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra this week lost their appeal against the firing squad and Indonesia is preparing to execute them by the end of the year. The lawyers have vowed another legal challenge.
Source: The Daily Telegraph
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