He’s dead now, but I wanted to add some details here:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1765453
September 18, 2009 - 3:30am
Associated Press Writers
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)
SNIPPET: “Sometimes he would even don a veil and disguise himself as a woman, said Nasir Abas, who helped train Noordin as a former commander for Jemaah Islamiyah but who now works with the government to help rehabilitate arrested terrorists.”
“Noordin claimed to have taught 1,000 followers how to make bombs and carry out suicide attacks, said Al Chaidar, a terrorism expert and lecturer at Malikussaleh University in Aceh province who met Noordin in 2005 while researching a book.
“His voice, his intonation was very special, and that impressed many people,” Chaidar said.”
“Indonesian terrorist used veil to elude police”
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2342651/posts
Southeast Asia’s most wanted terrorist killed in Java raid
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org ^ | September 17, 2009 8:03 AM | By BILL ROGGIO
Posted on September 18, 2009 2:06:52 AM PDT by Cindy
Thank you Detachment 88. -Cindy
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Nick Grace contributed to this report.
PHOTO CAPTION: “A photo of Noordin Mohammed Top after he was killed during a raid in Java. The photo was taken with a cell phone. Photo provided by Nick Grace.”
SNIPPET: “Southeast Asia’s most wanted al Qaeda-linked terrorist has been killed during an overnight raid by counterterrorism police in Solo in Central Java, Indonesia. Police have confirmed that the elusive Noordin Mohammed Top has been killed along with four other terrorists during the assault on a safe house in Java.”
SNIPPET: “Within the past 24 hours, Indonesia’s elite counterterrorism police unit Detachment 88 (Densus 88) shot and killed Top along with three other associates. During the raid, police acquired two laptops and documents, which they said confirm that all four terrorists who were killed during the raid comprised the leadership of al Qaeda in Southeast Asia. Police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri suggested in a press conference today that the documents picked up in Solo show that they wiped out most of al Qaeda in Southeast Asia’s senior leadership in this raid.
Wanted terrorists Bagus Budi Pranoto, Ario Sudarso, and Hadi Susilo were killed with Top, Metro TV reported. Pranoto and Sudarso are believed to have been Top’s right-hand men. Saifuddin Zuhri and Muhammad Sahrir, two other top terrorists, are being hunted by police.
The Indonesian press is showing photos of Top’s body and the commentary is focusing on the fact that his eyes were closed and his mouth was open at the moment of death - unlike Ibrohim, the florist-terrorist involve int he July bombings in Jakarta who was killed in the police raid in Temanggung in August. The insinuation is that Noordin was such a coward that not only did he not blow himself up, despite having active bombs available at the safe house - but that he winced and closed his eyes when he was killed by Detachment 88 oficers.
Top, a Malaysian national, was a senior leader in Jemaah Islamiyah.” Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/09/southeast_asias_most.php