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...apparently killed in a strike by a U.S. drone. And on Saturday Aug. 8, Indonesian authorities reported that Noordin M. Top, the country's most wanted terrorist, was probably killed during a police raid, ending a years-long manhunt for the Malaysian believed responsible for a string of bomb attacks in Jakarta and Bali in recent years. In a dramatic shootout broadcast on national TV, police surrounded and fired shots at a small house in Temanggung in central Java, where the fugitive had been holed up for the past two days. Police have yet to confirm officially the death...
...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...
...training, was inducted in 1998 as a member of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Southeast terror network with links to al-Qaeda. Top, a Malaysian who went to Indonesia after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., is believed to have been involved in all of the suicide bomb attacks in Indonesia since two night clubs in Bali were blown up in 2002, killing 202 people. Experts say he planned the first bombing of the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta in 2003 with fellow Malaysian Azhari Husin, who was killed by Indonesian police in East Java...
...bullying nor will they pay attention to your smiles and greetings." Ahmadinejad reasserted his hawkish foreign policy position but was otherwise relatively low-key, adding that he would "spare no effort to safeguard the frontiers of Iran." The remark was most likely a reference to Israel's threats to bomb Iran's uranium-enrichment facilities if the country does not halt its nuclear weapons program...
Just hours after the raids, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared, "There is an enduring threat of terrorism at home here in Australia as well as overseas." He noted that three Australians lost their lives in the recent bombings in Jakarta but was quick to note that the alleged al-Shabaab plot appears to have nothing to do with the Indonesian incident. Despite Australia's remote location, a number of major investigations have been mounted into alleged terrorist cells or terrorist supporters, with mixed success. In 2005, Australian security agencies thwarted a group of men who had discussed plotting...