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JAKARTA: The three Bali bombers facing execution over an attack which killed 202 people are frustrated at delays to their executions, a family member was quoted as saying in media reports on Monday.
The condemned men - Amrozi, 47, Mukhlas, 48, and Imam Samudra, 38 - have been placed in isolation and the order for their death by firing squad has been delivered, according to a source at the high security Nusakambangan prison in southern Java, where they are being held.
According to a relative, Mukhlas has asked for the execution to be carried out without further delay, the Australian AAP news agency reported on Monday.
Family of the bombers were due to fly to Bali on Monday to lodge a last-ditch appeal at the Denpasar court that sentenced them to death in 2003 under a tough anti-terrorism law.
It was not clear on what grounds the family would seek to prevent the executions, which are set to take place any day after the bombers exhausted their last legal options following a string of failed appeals.
Mukhlas' brother-in-law Nasir Abas told the Indonesian newspaper Radar Banyumas that the bomber was annoyed by the wait to die, according to AAP.
"For me this decision is in accordance with what he (Mukhlas) wishes, which is to die as a martyr," Abas was quoted as saying.
"He has asked for it to be done immediately.
"The delays of the executions is not Mukhlas' wish but it is the wish of his lawyer, who according to me, is running a secular legal process which is hated by Mukhlas himself."
The 2002 bombings targeted nightspots packed with Western tourists, killing more than 160 foreigners including 88 Australians. The bombers said they were retaliation for US-led aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Security forces have been placed on high alert across the mainly Muslim archipelago of 234 million people, with special attention paid to the US and Australian embassies amid fear of reprisals from Islamist extremists.
A police spokesman in Bali said on Sunday some 3,000 police had been deployed on the island alone, especially around ports and the airport. - AFP/de
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