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...seven-year campaign to nab Noordin is rightly being celebrated among Indonesian anti-terror forces, who have already netted more than a dozen other high-profile suspects in connection with the latest hotel bombings. The captures aren't a one-off occurrence. Four years ago, Indonesian commandoes killed Azahari bin Husin, the key bomb-maker for Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the extremist network that has as its stated goal the creation of a pan-Asian Islamic caliphate. Noordin is suspected of having been a central JI strategist before forming an even more radical, al-Qaeda-linked offshoot that carried...
...operation in which they trailed scores of suspects believed to have links to the dead men. One of these individuals was a 27-year-old Indonesian calling himself Yahya Antoni. A police source told TIME that at 5 a.m. on Nov. 8, the day before the raid in which Azahari died, Yahya emerged from the Batu house. Having tapped Yahya's mobile phone, authorities believed he was on his way to meet Azahari's suspected chief accomplice, fellow Malaysian Nurdin Mohammed Top, in Semarang in Central Java. Yahya apparently spotted his tails during the journey. The police source says Yahya...
...early afternoon on Nov. 9, a squad from Indonesia's U.S.-trained anti-terrorist group Detachment 88 had surrounded the modest, single-story dwelling. Calls for surrender were met with bullets, police say, and a four-hour standoff ensued, during which Azahari and another man threw 11 explosive charges at officers. In the end, according to the police, Azahari was shot and killed before he could detonate his bomb vest, but his companion set off an explosion, killing himself...
...wreckage police found a workshop for manufacturing small bombs suitable for suicide missions. A police source says 33 packets of explosives were discovered-one of which was already packed into a knapsack, while others were at various stages of assembly. The upshot: Azahari, 48, and Nurdin, 33, were almost certainly planning a string of fresh attacks...
...Azahari's death deals a serious blow to Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the Southeast Asian network of militants to which he allegedly belonged, and which is widely believed to have been behind the Bali bombings of last month and of 2002. But many militants are still at large, most notably Nurdin. Shadowy and less flamboyant than Azahari, Nurdin was given responsibility for planning and executing J.I.'s bombing campaign, which was launched by the group's operations supremo Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali) at a terrorism summit in Bangkok in early 2002. (Hambali was arrested in Thailand...