August 12, 2009

Indonesia confirms militant alive

DNA tests show that a man killed in a weekend raid was not Noordin Mohammed Top, one of the region's most wanted men, Indonesian police say.
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The dead man - killed at the end of a siege at a remote farmhouse in Central Java on Saturday - was named instead as a suspect in two 17 July bomb attacks.
Police sources had earlier said they had killed Malaysian-born Noordin.
He has been blamed for a number of attacks, including the July hotel bombs in Jakarta and the 2002 Bali blasts.
"The dead body is Ibrohim... We tried to match the DNA with the sample from Johor [Noordin's son] and it didn't match," police spokesman Nanan Soekarna told a news conference....Full Story

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