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October 14, 2003, The Philippine Star / AFP, Al-Ghozi's mom: He died a martyr,

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The mother of slain fugitive Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) bomb-maker Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi said yesterday her son died a martyr and she wanted his body to be handed over to the family for burial. 

The Philippine military said Al-Ghozi, an Indonesian, was killed Sunday, three months after he escaped from a Manila police prison where he had been serving a 17-year jail term for possessing explosives. 

"I hope that his body can be taken home. If not, I ask for the body to be buried without a shroud or being bathed because he has died a martyr," Rukanah was quoted by the state Antara news agency as saying. 

Rukanah, whose husband died in May, said she received the news of Al-Ghozi’'s death from the Indonesian embassy in Manila. She said a lawyer would convey her request to the embassy. 

Al-Ghozi graduated in 1989 from an Islamic boarding school founded by Abu Bakar Bashir, who was jailed for four years in September for plotting to overthrow the Indonesian government. 

He trained in Afghanistan and set up a JI terrorist training camp within the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Camp Abubakar in Mindanao, according to a report from the International Crisis Group of political analysts. 

Shortly after he was convicted, Al-Ghozi reportedly confessed that he used part of his explosives stockpile to bomb the Manila light railway, killing 22 people in December 2000. 

He also reportedly said JI had planned to use the remainder for a bombing campaign in Singapore. 

Prosecutors have said Al-Ghozi also detonated a bomb at the Philippine ambassador's residence in Jakarta in August 2000 which killed two people. 

The military said Al-Ghozi was killed in a clash. But officials in the area said there had been no reports of a battle, giving rise to speculation that he may have been caught and killed.

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