Video: Noordin Mohd Top Officially Declared Dead

Posted on September 17, 2009

Update 4.11 local time: Kapolri (chief of police) just announces in a press confrence that Noordin Mohammad Top is indeed among the four terrorists who were killed in Solo Jateng.

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It’s obvious that after discrepancies over Noordin M Top’s death on August 2009 which turned out to be untrue, the breaking news on Indonesia’s news channel like Metro TV and TVOne that he’s among the dead on Solo ambush tonight regarded with vague responses.

That’s said, both Metro TV and TVOne have to say that yes, Noordin Top are among the dead. Reuters seems to confirm that news too based on sources from security forces who involved in the attack:

Indonesia’s most-wanted Islamic militant, Noordin Mohammad Top, may have been killed in a shoot-out in Central Java, security and police sources said on Thursday.

Indonesian police stormed a house in Java overnight and killed four people.

“We are 90 percent certain that it’s Noordin Top,” a police source who was involved in the raid on a house in Solo, Central Java, told Reuters. Asked how he could be sure, the source said he had seen the face of the dead man believed to be Top.

Other security and police sources also said they strongly believed Top had been killed.

The Jakarta Globe, though in doubt and more careful, seems supporting the assumption of Noordin’s death

Southeast Asia’s most wanted terrorist Noordin M Top “could be” one of the casualties of the Thursday morning terrorism raid in Solo, Central Java, Indonesian television stations have reported.

The fingerprints of one of the victims allegedly matched with those of Noordin in a police database, reported television stations Metro TV, TV One and RCTI.

Confirmation of a fingerprint match and DNA test would probably take two or three days.

AFP reported that a decapitated corpse believed to be Noordin’s was among four bodies recovered after the early morning raid on a village house, according to an officer from the elite Densus 88 antiterror squad.

Well, let’s hope his death this time around is true. If it’s the case, what a gift for Indonesia and Indonesian Muslims on the eve of Idul Fitri 2009!

Picture of Noordin Muhammad Top like this one has been circulated by police around the country. Including in my neighborhood

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