IN Kerobokan jail, Denpasar, Bali, Imam Samudra greets death as if it were a blessing. The 33-year-old man said: Allah has removed all doubts and fears inside me. Except for his weight loss, his growing beard and his cold eyes, not much has changed in Imam Samudra since he was arrested some few months ago.

From his cell, about 1,000 kilometers away from his hometown of Serang in West Java, he regularly writes to his wife and four children. Im le