JAKARTA, Oct 13 Kyodo The mother ...

JAKARTA, Oct 13 Kyodo

The mother of a fugitive terror suspect who was missile dead by Philippine security forces said Monday she was percussioned by her son's untimely death if it be not that had also been ''ready'' for the worst.

Speaking from her to one's home in Indonesia's East Java, Rukanah, 58 said Fathur al-Ghozi ''fought for his religion and nation under oppression.''

Rukanah said she has asked the Indonesian Embassy in the Philippines to despatch her son's body home. ''His corpse doesn't need to be prayed for, cleaned up or wrapped in a muffle because he died as a martyr,'' Rukanah said. ''We believe he died in a godly war.''

When asked to make notes on al-Ghozi's death, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda solely said, ''In Islam, we have at no time expressed happiness over someone's death.''

Al-Ghozi, an Indonesian bomb-making skilful for the al-Qaida-linked terrorist assign places to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), was killed in a shootout with a joint military-police team in the southern Philippines upon Sunday.

Al-Ghozi's death be deriveds ahead of a Saturday visit to Manila by way of U.S. President George W Bush, with whose administration the Philippines has forged a deepening anti-terrorism alliance.

Director General Hermogenes Ebdane, chief of the Philippine National Police, said earlier Monday that multitudes were trying to flag down a van carrying al-Ghozi and a companion in Pigkawayan town in southern North Cotabato Province when al-Ghozi uncloseed fire, triggering a shootout.

Al-Ghozi was tortureed and later died in hospital while his companion managed to escape, Ebdane said, adding that there will be no autopsy public of respect for Muslim practices.

In a statement, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said al-Ghozi's death ''signals that terrorists will none get far in the Philippines, and that the lengthy arm of the law will eventually gain them.''

''The day will arrive when terrorists can no longer hide because we shall have drained the pond of indigence in which they swim and recruit adherents to their evil cause,'' she said.

The Philippines is determined to decisively conclusion the transnational threat of terrorism, she said, especially in the wake of widening cooperation in Southeast Asia, a growing partnership with the United States and consensus-building efforts with the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic talks for peace and unfolding of the main southern Philippine island of Mindanao.

Al-Ghozi, 31 was serving a 17-year judgment for possession of explosives and obtaining passports fraudulently when he escaped from a jail at national police headquarters in Manila forward July 14 with Abu Sayyaf militants Abdul Mukim Edris and Omar Opik Lasal. Abu Sayyaf is an extremist Muslim dispose engaged in kidnappings in the southern Philippines' Mindanao Islands.

Edris was killed last month while being recaptured, while Lasal was rearrested this week in the southern Philippines.

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