I don't really care about discussing it, but I found this article interesting. I've cut out a lot of it to shorten it :

The making of martyrs
1/11/2008 1:00:01 AM

For three men who say they welcome death, the Bali bombers have spent a lot of time trying to avoid it. In the five years since Mukhlas, Amrozi and Imam Samudra greeted their guilty verdicts and death sentences with fist-pumping glee and shouts of "Infidel die", they have fought at every turn their moment with the firing squad.


Perhaps these killers of 202 people are not so comfortable with meeting their maker. But they are truly fanatics and a far more worrying explanation for their antics offers itself. This spectacle was engineered by hardline Islamists, high-powered lawyers and wealthy businessmen to keep the headlines running, to increase the killers' notoriety, to publicise their cause and, along the way, to make money on the side.


"The Bali bombers want to be martyrs," says Sidney Jones, the Jakarta-based terrorism expert from the International Crisis Group. "And it's much easier to be a martyr if a lot of people are following your every word. In this respect, their strategy has worked."

While media attention reached a peak in recent weeks, the prison freedom afforded the Bali bombers for years has been extraordinary, a testament to the lack of security and culture of bribes in Indonesian jails. For a time, Imam Samudra kept a laptop in his cell. He communicated with other members of Jemaah Islamiah, set up his own website - instimata.com, or martyrdom.com - and fielded questions about the Bali bombings and dispensed advice on jihad. He also published Me Against The Terrorists , a book in which he repeats his Bali bombing defence as the righteous killing of infidels and also offers a primer on how to undertake cybercrime and build terrorist networks online.


The royalties went to his family, with lawyers and publisher also taking cuts.


Money is a big part of the story. The bombers have become a burgeoning cottage industry. Most media interviews come at a hefty price and there's no shortage of donors funding the legal team, which has done rather well for itself in attracting more work.

http://young.yourguide.com.au/news/world/world/general/the-making-of-martyrs/134...