Hundreds of militant Muslims shouting "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Greatest) attended the burial of Indonesian terrorist bomb-maker Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi in his home town, a family lawyer said.
Activists from the Big Family of Mujahideen (holy warriors) and the Indonesian Council of Mujahideen ran chanting behind the ambulance carrying the coffin to the cemetery, said Wirawan Adnan.
Al-Ghozi was killed Sunday by troops in the Philippines three months after he broke out of a Manila jail. His body was taken back to Kebon Sari in East Java's Madiun district for burial after an autopsy at a hospital in Solo.
The result "indicates that he was not killed during a shootout but in a secret execution" by Philippine soldiers, Adnan told AFP. The Philippine military said al-Ghozi, who had been involved in a series of deadly attacks by the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), was killed in a gunfight on the southern island of Mindanao.
Adnan said the autopsy findings supported an earlier examination by his team in the Philippines which found no traces on al-Ghozi's hand showing he had fired a weapon. But Indonesia's foreign ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa said his office had obtained a result from the Philippine crime lab, which confirmed that al-Ghozi had indeed fired a gun using his left hand.
Al-Ghozi's body was buried without being bathed and shrouded, as is usual at Islamic burials, at a public cemetery next to his father because his family believes he had died as a martyr, Adnan said.
Some 150 members of the same mujahideen groups had given the corpse a hero's welcome when it arrived Thursday in Kebon Sari.
They carried banners reading "My choice: Live in dignity or die as a martyr," and "Al-Ghozi, whoever you were you are a martyr, Islamic hero." The Indonesian Council of Mujahideen is led by cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who according to foreign governments leads the JI network blamed for the Bali bombings and a series of other attacks.
Al-Ghozi had graduated in 1989 from an Islamic boarding school founded by Bashir, who was jailed for four years in September for plotting to overthrow the Indonesian government.
Al-Ghozi had trained in Afghanistan and set up a JI terrorist training camp in Mindanao, according to a report from the International Crisis Group of political analysts.
When he escaped from a Manila police cell he had been serving a 17-year jail term for possessing explosives.
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, killing two people.
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has denied that al-Ghozi was executed in cold blood to create a publicity coup before US President George W. Bush's visit.