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

Video of Noordin M. Top’s Dead

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.

It’s good news for Indonesians. And great news for humanity. Dead to all terrorists.
Indonesian police have shot dead a man suspected to be fugitive Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top during raids in Central Java and were trying to identify his body, a police source said on Saturday.

Separately, police found five bombs during another raid on a house in Bekasi near the capital Jakarta, the source who is close to the investigation told Reuters.

It turns out the suicide bomber in JW Marriot Hotel in Jakarta was only a 16 or 17 year old teenager:
THE suicide bomber who detonated himself in Jakarta’s Marriott Hotel was just a teenager, probably only 16 or 17 years old.

Indonesian police yesterday made the claim based on forensic examinations of the bomber’s remains, including his severed head.

If it is confirmed he was a teenager, he would be Indonesia’s youngest suicide bomber.

With a 180-190 cm height — very tall for average Indonesian– and had a fair skin color he must be a handsome boy. What a waste!

Indonesia police release images of suspected bombers, reports AFP
Indonesian police released digital images Wednesday of the reconstructed faces of two suspected suicide bombers thought to have attacked luxury hotels in Jakarta last week, killing seven people.

Police said the suspected bomber who killed five people including four foreigners at the JW Marriott was aged only 16 to 17 years old, while the man suspected of carrying out the Ritz-Carlton attack was aged from 20 to 40 years.

The images are being shown to witnesses as part of the investigation into Friday’s attacks on the luxury hotels in central Jakarta, the first major terror atrocity in Indonesia since 2005.

In another development, a woman reported to be the wife of fugitive terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top was arrested by heavily armed counter-terrorism police in Central Java, an official said.

President says Indonesia can “overcome this problem”, via Reuters
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Tuesday his country could guarantee security following deadly suicide bomb attacks on two luxury hotels in Jakarta last week.

The attacks at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels killed nine people and wounded 53, including foreigners and Indonesians. The bombings were the first such attacks in the country in four years.

“My message to the world is that Indonesia can overcome this problem and will continue to guarantee even greater security in the future,” Yudhoyono said in a speech to inaugurate a new museum in the capital.

Noordin M. Top, a Malaysian, officially named as a suspect and probable mastermind in July 17 Jakarta blast.  The Jakarta Post reports:
The Indonesian government continues to work with the Malaysian authorities to hunt down the most wanted terror suspect Noordin M. Top, an Indonesian official said.

The head of the Anti-Terror Desk at the office of the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Insp. Gen. Ansyaad Mbai said Sunday that involving Malaysia is important as Noordin is Malaysian.

“We have and will continue to communicate, coordinate with the Malaysian authorities to look for and catch Noordin M. Top,” Ansyaad Mbai told Antara news agency on Sunday.

He said that both governments were now also analyzing bombing materials and funding for the terror attacks.

Based the evidence so far, Ansyaad said, Noordin M. Top might be named as a suspect in the Friday’s blast.
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