Indonesia bunuh terrorris laknat.... Syukur Alhamdullilah!
Indonesia bunuh terrorris laknat.... Syukur Alhamdullilah! Padan Muka Pengganas Lakhanat. Pasti ada manusia yang nak bela dan sokong pengganas ini.Indonesia believes has killed top wanted militant
http://media.themalaysianinsider.com/images/stories/2008_may/0302/00003_indoraid.jpg Members of the Indonesian police anti-terror squad takes part in a drill. — Reuters pic
JAKARTA, March 9 — Indonesian police believe they have shot dead a top fugitive militant, wanted over the 2002 Bali bombings, in what could be a major coup in the country’s fight against Islamist radicals, police and analysts said today.
Police sources said the raids in Pamulang, in Banten province, were linked to a series of assaults on suspected Islamic militants in Aceh province and had been targeting Dulmatin, a fugitive member of militant group Jemaah Islamiah.
The raids come ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama on March 20-22 to the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
National Police spokesman Edward Aritonang said the dead suspect in the first raid was thought to be “linked with terrorist incidents that police were investigating”, but police were still identifying the body and this could take 1-2 days.
But a police source who was involved in the operation and who declined to be identified told Reuters police “strongly suspect it was Dulmatin”.
Sidney Jones, a respected expert on Islamist militants at the International Crisis Group, said in a telephone text message: “It looks 99 per cent certain it’s him.”
Aritonang said the dead man had fired at police and a revolver was found with 5 bullets still inside and 13 spares.
TV footage showed police carrying an orange body bag to an ambulance after the raid on a two-storey building that housed a small Internet and copying business at street level.
Police said a second raid was conducted nearby about an hour later, targeting members of the same group. Two suspects were shot and two detained.
TV footage showed a dead man, wearing a black top, trousers and sandals, slumped on the ground.
Nearby, a motorbike was lying on its side that the suspects were believed to have tried to flee on. A Reuters photographer at the scene saw two body bags being carried away by police.
Indonesian Dulmatin is wanted over the 2002 Bali bombings and was believed to have been hiding in the southern Philippines.
Indonesia’s counter-terrorism unit, Detachment 88, has launched a series of raids across the archipelago following the discovery of a militant Islamist training camp in Aceh last month.
Books on jihad, rifles and military uniforms were found during the raids in which 19 suspected members of the group were detained in Aceh and Java.
Two suspects and three police have been killed during the ongoing hunt for more suspects.
Dulmatin was thought to be in the Philippines working with the Islamist Abu Sayyaf group, said Noor Huda Ismail, an Indonesian expert on radical Islamist groups.
“It would be a major blow for the violent movement in Indonesia if it was Dulmatin. However, it would also send a disturbing signal to us that there are many terrorists who manage to enter Indonesia from abroad,” Ismail said.
Ismail said that Dulmatin had the capability to succeed Noordin Mohammad Top, a Malaysian-born militant and bomb-maker killed by police last year during a raid in central Java.
Noordin, who is believed to have set up a violent splinter group of Jemaah Islamiah, masterminded a series of bombings including suicide attacks on luxury hotels in Jakarta last July.
Mardigu Wowi Prasantyo, another expert on militants in Indonesia, said Dulmatin had expertise in bombings, sniper attacks and guerrilla fighting.
Indonesia has been dealing with militant attacks for the past decade from groups such as Jemaah Islamiah, some of whose members trained in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the southern Philippines. A Saudi man and an Indonesian are on trial in Indonesia in connection with the hotel bombings in Jakarta last year that killed 11 people, including the suicide bombers.
Police have said that the hotel bombings pointed to the re-establishment of a connection between al Qaeda and local militants.
Al Qaeda helped fund the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2003 JW Marriott hotel bombings in Jakarta, which killed scores of Indonesians and Westerners, police say. — Reuters sila gunakan thread yang dah sedia ada untuk membincangkan situasi di Indonesia.Sekian maklum
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