Thu, 16 Oct 2003

Body of al-Ghozi arrives in Surabaya: The remains of bombmaker Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi who was shot dead in a shoot-out with Philippine troops on Sunday arrived in Surabaya at 10:46 p.m. on Wednesday after a flight from Manila. A number of East Java Police officers received the body, before transporting it by land to Mojorejo village in Madiun, some 150 kilometers west of Surabaya, for burial. Hundreds of Muslim activists grouped under the Surakarta Mujahiddin Family, had gathered in the village since Wednesday morning to pay homage to al-Ghozi, whom they called a hero. -- Antara