Remorseful Bali bomber gets life

Ali Imron, one of the few defendants to express remorse for the Bali terror attacks, was jailed for life today for his role in the bombings that killed 202 people.

The sentence, by a five judge panel sitting in Bali, was tougher than the 20-year prison term the prosecution had demanded.

Imron admitted involvement in last October’s nightclub bombings on the Indonesian holiday isle.

He could have been sentenced to death, but the five-judge panel said a lighter sentence was justified given his expressions of remorse and his testimony against other defendants on trial.

Imron’s older brother Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, and the mastermind of the Bali attacks, Imam Samudra, have already been sentenced death.

Both defiantly defended the bombings as necessary to avenge the treatment of Muslims at the hands of the United States and Israel.

Imron, a 33-year old Islamic boarding school teacher, admitted making one of the two bombs that ripped through two packed nightclubs and driving a bomb-laden mini-van to the site of the attack.