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...suspects with links to the dead bombers. One of those suspects, a 27-year-old Indonesian who calls himself Yayha Antoni, emerged from the Batu house the day before Azahari died. Having tapped his mobile phone, police believed he was going to meet Azahari's chief accomplice, fellow Malaysian Noordin Mohamad Top. Yayha apparently sensed he was being tailed and tried to detonate his vest but was arrested; he later admitted he was a courier passing messages between the two militants and that Azahari was in the Batu house...
Azahari Bin Husin seemed to live a charmed life. One of Asia's most wanted terrorists, Azahari, a Malaysian university lecturer who became a master bombmaker, had been on the run in Indonesia for three years and had repeatedly evaded capture-despite the biggest manhunt ever mounted by Indonesian authorities. On several occasions he slipped away just minutes before police showed up at his hideout. But last week Azahari's luck ran out: he was killed during a shootout when police raided a house he had rented in the mountain resort town of Batu in East Java...
...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 tried to detonate an explosives vest he was wearing but was arrested and later admitted he was a courier passing messages between Azahari and Nurdin. The source says that...
...former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister turned political prisoner told a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night that Islam and democracy are compatible ideologies. The charismatic Anwar Ibrahim criticized the “democracy deficit” of many Muslim nations, but also questioned the wisdom of spreading democracy “at the barrel of an M-16.” Noting that the moderate democracy of Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, Ibrahim warned against identifying Islam solely with autocratic regimes like that of Saudi Arabia. Ibrahim, who is now a visiting professor...
...copies across the archipelago. Last week, they also offered a hundred million rupiah reward?about $10,000?for anyone who can identify one of the bombers. The police have offered up to 1 billion rupiah, or $100,000, for help that leads to the capture of the two Malaysian terrorist kingpins believed to be behind the attacks, Azahari Husin and Noordin Top?an amount that shows how worried the government is that they may be planning to strike again...