Praise as police shoot Bali bomber
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March 11, 2010, Thursday
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INDONESIAN counterterror authorities won international praise yesterday for killing a top Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the deadly 2002 Bali bombings.
Police also revealed that bomb-making materials were found in one of two raids near Jakarta on Tuesday that killed fugitive Dulmatin and his two bodyguards.
Indonesia's Police Chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters yesterday that the bomb was not being prepared for United States President Barak Obama's visit to Jakarta this month, but would not elaborate on a potential target.
Dulmatin, a 39-year-old Indonesian trained by al-Qaida in Afghanistan who used one name, was wanted for the suicide bombings that tore through two Bali nightclubs popular with Westerners, killing 202 people in Indonesia's deadliest terrorist attack. He was also blamed for the 2004 truck bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta that killed 11.
Dulmatin had been one of Southeast Asia's most-wanted fugitives and was thought to have fled to the Philippines.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono used a speech to officials in the Australian capital of Canberra yesterday to confirm speculation that Dulmatin was one of three suspected militants killed in two coordinated raids the day before on Jakarta's southwestern outskirts on the country's main island of Java.
"Indonesian authorities will continue to hunt them (terrorists) down and do all we can to prevent them from harming our people," Yudhoyono told Parliament House.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd praised Indonesia for tracking down the alleged master bomb-maker of Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian offshoot of al-Qaida. Some 88 Australians died in the Bali attacks.
"The breakthroughs that Indonesia has made in undermining various terrorist networks has been significant," Rudd told reporters.
Colonel Bill Coultrup, commander of US counterterrorism forces in the southern Philippines where Dulmatin allegedly fought in recent years with the al-Qaida-linked militant group Abu Sayyaf, congratulated Indonesia on an "excellent job."
"It's a great success, but as we have seen in Iraq, in Afghanistan and other places, you may remove one leader, but there may be someone who will step up to take his place," Coultrup told The Associated Press.
Philippine marines commander Major General Juancho Sabban, who for years has led US-backed offensives that have killed and captured several Abu Sayyaf leaders, said Dulmatin's death had made the region safer. "It's good Indonesia got him. It proved that our operations are effective," he said.
Eliminating Dulmatin is seen as a major achievement for Indonesian security forces ahead of Obama's first visit.
Police also revealed that bomb-making materials were found in one of two raids near Jakarta on Tuesday that killed fugitive Dulmatin and his two bodyguards.
Indonesia's Police Chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters yesterday that the bomb was not being prepared for United States President Barak Obama's visit to Jakarta this month, but would not elaborate on a potential target.
Dulmatin, a 39-year-old Indonesian trained by al-Qaida in Afghanistan who used one name, was wanted for the suicide bombings that tore through two Bali nightclubs popular with Westerners, killing 202 people in Indonesia's deadliest terrorist attack. He was also blamed for the 2004 truck bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta that killed 11.
Dulmatin had been one of Southeast Asia's most-wanted fugitives and was thought to have fled to the Philippines.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono used a speech to officials in the Australian capital of Canberra yesterday to confirm speculation that Dulmatin was one of three suspected militants killed in two coordinated raids the day before on Jakarta's southwestern outskirts on the country's main island of Java.
"Indonesian authorities will continue to hunt them (terrorists) down and do all we can to prevent them from harming our people," Yudhoyono told Parliament House.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd praised Indonesia for tracking down the alleged master bomb-maker of Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian offshoot of al-Qaida. Some 88 Australians died in the Bali attacks.
"The breakthroughs that Indonesia has made in undermining various terrorist networks has been significant," Rudd told reporters.
Colonel Bill Coultrup, commander of US counterterrorism forces in the southern Philippines where Dulmatin allegedly fought in recent years with the al-Qaida-linked militant group Abu Sayyaf, congratulated Indonesia on an "excellent job."
"It's a great success, but as we have seen in Iraq, in Afghanistan and other places, you may remove one leader, but there may be someone who will step up to take his place," Coultrup told The Associated Press.
Philippine marines commander Major General Juancho Sabban, who for years has led US-backed offensives that have killed and captured several Abu Sayyaf leaders, said Dulmatin's death had made the region safer. "It's good Indonesia got him. It proved that our operations are effective," he said.
Eliminating Dulmatin is seen as a major achievement for Indonesian security forces ahead of Obama's first visit.
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