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ASIA: Bombers' supporters clash with police as bodies arrive

09 Nov 2008 2:21 PM

Hundreds of supporters of the executed Bali bombers have clashed with Indonesian police .. after the return of the three bodies to their home villages for burial.

Hordes of heavily-armed police in Tenggulun in East Java were unable to control the 500-strong crowd which surged around ambulances carrying the bodies of AMROZI and his brother MUKHLAS.

Clashes broke out .. and police were driven off the road amid shouts of Jihad! .. and Get out!

There were similar scenes in the west Java town of Serang .. as IMAM SAMUDRA'S body was paraded through the streets between his local mosque and graveyard .. shrouded in a black cloth bearing a Koranic inscription in Arabic.

Followers of hardline cleric ABU BAKAR BASHIR pushed people aside to make way for the body.

Westerners in both villages were verbally abused as infidels .. and told toleave.

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