Terror mastermind said among 4 dead in Indonesia raid

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

KEPUH SARI, Indonesia — Armed Indonesian police stormed an Islamic militant hideout early Thursday in a raid strongly suspected to have left terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top dead, police said.

A decapitated corpse believed to be Noordin's was among four bodies recovered after the early morning raid on a village house in Central Java, an officer of the elite Special Detachment 88 anti-terror squad told AFP.

Asked if one of the suspected dead militants was believed to be Noordin, the officer said on condition of anonymity: "Yes, it's 90 percent (certain)."



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[Turborama]

1. France 24: Southeast Asia’s top terrorist killed in raid

An early morning raid on a militant hideout killed Noordin Mohammad Top, Southeast Asia’s most-wanted terrorist and the leader of an Islamist faction suspected of plotting terrorist attacks across the region, Indonesian police sources said on Thursday.

Indonesian police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri confirmed that Top was among the four dead following a meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. “The details are with national police headquarters,” Danuri added.

Police stormed the rented house being used as a hideout just outside Solo City in Central Java at around 2 am Paris time (GMT+2) following a nine-hour siege.

A Malaysian national, the 41-year-old Noordin is the leader of a militant group known as “Al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago”, a more violent splinter group of Jemaah Islamiyah, the group suspected of planning a spate of deadly attacks across Asia including the July 17 suicide bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in the capital, Jakarta. The attacks left a total of nine people dead, including six foreigners and the two suicide bombers.

Noordin is also suspected of planning an earlier attack on the Jakarta Marriott in 2003, on the Australian embassy in Indonesia in 2004 and a series of bombings on the island of Bali in 2005 that targeted foreign tourists.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20090917-southeast-asia-top-terrorist-killed-raid-java-noordin-mohammad-top

Finally it looks like they got the evil fucker.

[proteus_lives]

2. Thanks for the link.

The Indonesian police performed a serious service for all of Asia.

:thumbsup:

[Turborama]

3. I feel like cracking open a beer to celebrate

It's 5:30 PM in Bali so it's not too early, lol.