An Islamic militant was today sentenced to be executed by firing squad after judges found him guilty of being the “intellectual mastermind” behind last year’s deadly nightclub bombings on the island of Bali.

THE alleged operations chief of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group told a court yesterday that police tortured him into signing a confession that he planned last year’s Bali nightclub bombings.

Indonesia today pledged to press ahead with tough new anti-terror laws and formed an international team to hunt down the culprits behind the Bali nightclub bombing that killed 33 Britons.