Posted on 09/18/2009 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
Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314027/posts
Indonesian police confirm Noordin Mohammed Top is alive
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org ^ | August 12, 2009 1:16 AM | By BILL ROGGIO
Posted on August 12, 2009 3:28:44 AM PDT by Cindy
Praise the Lord!
Ditto that.
Amen.
Sounds like a reasonably productive day.
Yep.
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