High traffic brings down website with dead Bali bomber's photo
Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 11-Nov-2008 13:31 hrs
Australian relatives of Bali bombings victims hug each other in front of the monument to the Bali bombing in Kuta. Indonesian security forces are bracing for an extremist backlash after the execution of three Islamists over the 2002 Bali bombings.
An Indonesian Islamist website bearing a photo of the body of one of the executed Bali bombers has been shut down after being overloaded by visitors, website administrators said Tuesday.
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The website had carried a picture of the exposed face of bomber Imam Samudra wrapped in a white Muslim burial shroud after he was executed by firing squad Sunday for his role in 2002 bombings on Bali that killed 202 people.
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"The Arrahman website is temporarily closed due to technical problems after an overload of visitors wanting to see an exclusive photo of the martyr," the website said on its press release.
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Administrators denied hackers had brought down the website.
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Hundreds of emotional Islamists attended the burial service for Samudra, 38, in his home town of Serang, western Java, on Sunday.
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Fellow bombers Amrozi, 47, and Mukhlas, 48, were buried amid similar scenes in their village in east Java.
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The picture was published with the approval of Samudra's family to allow Muslims to bear witness to Samudra's "martyrdom," administrators said.
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"We will never stop. We will come back," the website said, in place of its regular content.
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Police are on high alert across Indonesia for a possible violent backlash by supporters of the bombers, who were the first to be executed under Indonesia's tough 2003 anti-terror laws.
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Analysts have said a series of delays leading up to the bombers' executions and saturation media coverage have helped build up their image as "martyrs" to be emulated by other radicals.
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The bombings, which targeted nightclubs frequented by foreign holidaymakers, was the deadliest attacks attributed to the militant Jemaah Islamiyah network. — AFP
