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...between a rice field and a small hill, from where more than 150 police surveyed the hideout. When asked by police to identify himself and surrender, the suspect yelled that his name was Noordin M. Top but refused to come out. It is not yet clear whether Top blew himself up, as he was believed to have a bomb vest strapped on, or whether he was killed by police gunfire or their explosives. (See pictures of Bali showing a city reeling from destruction and mourning loss...
...death is confirmed, the news will help restore confidence in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the authorities, who were caught off guard by two suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Jakarta on July 17 this year at the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, killing themselves, six foreigners and one Indonesian. The bombings, the first deadly attacks in four years, reaffirmed concern that JI was back. The Indonesian government had received high praise from Washington in its fight against terror but with Top, a key strategist and recruiter, still on the run, there were persistent fears that another attack...
...economic policymakers remain fearful of taking, since they still feel the need to protect China's developing domestic financial sector from shifts in the global economy. China sees its controlled currency as a "dam surrounding a reservoir, and the government doesn't know what would happen if it blew up the dam," says David Li, an economist at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "Would water flood out because the level inside the dam is higher than outside or would the opposite happen? That's what they are afraid of, that uncertainty." Li believes it could take 15 years for China...
Indonesia's state-run news agency reported on Saturday that a security supervisor had actually spoken with one of the bombers, shortly before he blew himself up at the Marriott, asking where he was going with a backpack strapped to his chest while also pulling a wheeled suitcase behind him. The man apparently answered that he needed to deliver something to his boss, according to the Antara News Agency. Eerie closed-circuit video footage from the hotel of the moments before the detonation shows a man strolling through the lobby rolling a suitcase behind him. Seconds later, a burst...
Earlier this week, someone blew a trumpet from the second floor of the newsroom...