Posted on 11/09/2005 6:49:43 AM PST by dead
Indonesia's most wanted man and the terrorist blamed for a string of attacks including the Bali bombings has reportedly blown himself up after police raided his East Java hideout this afternoon.
Malaysian bomb mastermind Dr Azahari Husin apparently triggered a bomb killing himself and two accomplices after police surrounded a villa in the hill resort town of Batu, near Malang, local television news stations reported.
Witnesses told of gunshots and at least two explosions after crack anti-terror police raided the house around 3.30pm this afternoon.
The area was this evening cordoned off and electricity had been shut down.
A Detachment 88 source told AAP on condition of anonymity that the raid was linked to the October 1 triple suicide bombing on three cafes in Kuta and Jimbaran, which killed 20 innocent people, among them four Australians.
``It has a link,'' he said.
The ANTV television station, citing police sources, said Husin had been hiding out in the house and blew himself up rather than be captured.
Husin is said to be the brains behind a string of terror bombings, including the recent Bali bombings, last year's Australian Embassy attack and the 2003 suicide car bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta.
Along with suicide bomb recruiter and fellow Malaysian Noordin Top, he is Indonesia's most wanted man.
Local residents described the situation as ``tense'' as police surrounded the housing complex.
AAP
**sniff*..I love a happy ending..
...and now his brains are...
Blowed up good! Blowed up real good!
Good no time or money wasted on trials.
Was it an undewear-on-the-head panty raid, or just regular?
RAID. Kills thugs dead.
Hoping it was Arkancide.
Good riddance.
...and now his brains are...Blowed up good! Blowed up real good!
And now he's a Darwin Award candidate?
ping
Now pay attention.....I can do this only once!
Semper Fi
And now he's saying.... wait.... I thought there were virgins here? Wait... Wait...
Coward offed himself. Typical muzzie, no ba!!s.
FYI, also see freepmail on this . . .
Guess it's true, he did have blue eyes........one blew to the left, one blew to the right...
Awesome news.
Good background and some perspective given here:
http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/11/ji_bombmaker_ki.html
And now he's a Darwin Award candidate?
Nope, he’s not eligible, since he had two children.
He was a University lecturer, of course, filling young heads full of mush and bomb instructions.
This is a major regional victory in the global war against terror. From a BBC article published a month ago:
Bali suspects on most-wanted list
Azahari Husin, a trained engineer, once worked as a university lecturer in Malaysia and in 1990 he gained a doctorate in property valuation from the UK's University of Reading.
A married father-of-two in his late forties, he is said by some to be a fanatic, ready to die for his cause.
He is believed to have given bomb-making classes to JI militants, and to have issued precise instructions on how the massive car bomb used at the Sari club in Bali was to be manufactured.
He is also alleged to have been a key figure at the JI planning meeting which selected Bali as a target.
Both he and Noordin Top went to Indonesia after fleeing Malaysia when it cracked down on Islamists following the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.
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