Noordin Mat Top is Not Killed

It turns out, the man who’s been killed in police raid in Temanggung, Central Java was Ibrohim–Noordin’s partner, not Noordin Mohd Top as previously assumed. VOA reports:

Indonesian police say DNA tests show that a militant killed in a police raid at the weekend was not Malaysian terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top.

Indonesian national police official Eddy Saparwoko said Wednesday that the suspect shot dead during a siege in Central Java has been identified as a man named Ibrohim.

He says they compared the DNA with his family and the match was 100 percent.

DNA evidence also showed that the body is not, as was suspected, that of Noordin Mohammed Top, Indonesia’s most wanted terror suspect. Noordin has ties with the regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah and is suspected of planning the recent hotel bombings in Jakarta as well as other terrorist attacks in the past decade.

Police say Ibrohim was involved in the execution of the suicide bombings last month at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels. They say Ibrohim had been working as a florist at both hotels since 2005 and was able to bypass security to bring into the hotels the explosives used in the attacks. Police say he also recruited the two suicide bombers.