A banner in Central Java on Thursdayshows a police poster depicting the malaysia fugitive terrorist
Noordin M Top, the chief suspect in
the Jakarta twin suicide attacks.
Indonesian police have killed two suspected Islamic militants and seized up to 500 kg of bombs after a raid on a house in the Bekasi area near the capital Jakarta, police spokesman Nanan Soekarna said on Saturday. Elsewhere on the main island of Java, anti-terror officers slowly encircled a house where they said between three and four other militants were holed up. Soekarna also said that police had identified the two suicide bombers -- a 19-year-old man and 28-year-old man -- who carried out deadly attacks on two luxury hotels in the capital Jakarta last month. Local media reported that one of the men inside that property was believed to be Southeast Asia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin M Top. Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri said two suspected militants were killed and three were arrested in the dawn raid on Saturday. He said officers seized explosives and a car bomb that was intended for "a specific target" but gave no more details. Noordin is suspected in all of Indonesia's major terror attacks, including suicide bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels last month and blasts on the resort island of Bali in 2002.The hotel bombings killed nine and broke a four-year gap in terror strikes in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. The raid took place as police in Central Java province surrounded a home and exchanged gunfire with militants loyal to alleged terror leader Noordin Mohammad Top (Malaysian).
