Posted on 08/15/2005 6:47:01 PM PDT by george76
ONE of the two terrorists who made the Bali bombs has been shot dead during a gun battle with soldiers near a militant stronghold in the southern Philippines.
The remains of Umar Patek, a member of Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiah, and those of an al-Qa'ida-linked Abu Sayyaf commander were recovered from a creek bed on August 5, three weeks after they were ambushed by special forces.
Special forces soldiers launched an intensive operation in early July to find the pair thought at the time to be protected by Khadaffy Janajalani, the Abu Sayyaf leader responsible for dozens of kidnappings of Western hostages since 2000.
The death of Patek in the southern Philippines has reaffirmed suspicions long held by the Australian Government that JI and Abu Sayyaf have formed alliances to plot attacks against the West.
Security agencies formally identified Patek's remains yesterday, bringing an end to a three-year hunt to find one of the region's most dangerous bomb-makers.
Only three of the terrorists responsible for the Bali atrocities remain at large. They are master-bomber Azahari Hussein, his deputy Dulmatin and logistics man Noordin Mohammad Top. Patek had been responsible for mixing the chemicals used to make the 1-tonne potassium chlorate bomb that destroyed the Sari Club in Bali on October 12, 2002, claiming 202 lives, among them 88 Australians.
Regional security officials believe dozens of Indonesian militants continue to conduct paramilitary training each month in Mindinao, before returning to their homelands.
A spokesman for Foreign Minister Alexander Downer last night said the Government had not been formally advised of Patek's death.
"However, in principle we welcome all reports of capture, or elimination of any of the terrorists connected with Bali,"
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"The remains of Umar Patek, a member of Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiah, and those of an al-Qa'ida-linked Abu Sayyaf commander were recovered from a creek bed..."
Someone get some bacon.
So, where's the party? I'll bring ice and cups....
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I'll spring for a 5 pound bucket of lard.
Who's buying the pork rinds?
He's dead...good!
R.I.P.
(rest..............in..............pig_____________).
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"Bali bomb-maker dies in shoot-out"
Good.
Okay, sombody HAS to say it:
Don't bring a bomb to a gun fight.
Nice. Three weeks for nasty boars (read: WILD PIGS!) to do all sorts of creative things with their "martyred" corpses.
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