Indonesia police believe militant chief killed

Indonesia police believe militant chief killed

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JAKARTA (Reuters) - 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 close to the investigation told Reuters.

The source said a man suspected to be Top was shot dead during a raid on a workshop in Temanggung in Central Java and they were trying to identify the body.

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In a fashion which suggests coordination across many different states the leaders of militant organizations are being captured and/or killed at unprecendented speed.

If this death is confirmed that brings up to three the number of militant leaders killed since last week, along with Pakistani Mehsud and the Nigerian Taliban, and the arrest of the self appointed new leader of the Tamil Tigers, Pathmanathan.

At this rate its almost reasonable to expect the complete destruction of all militant organizations on the planet in less than a year.

There are also reports that he's been captured.

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[edit on 7-8-2009 by IDK88]

[edit on 7-8-2009 by IDK88]