The Demolition Mans Endgame

Azahari resisted arrest only to die in the ensuing shootout. Is it true he planned to surrender and end all violence?

Tempo

November 15, 2005

THE four-year manhunt had ended. After a week of surveillance, on Wednesday last week, the Indonesian Police raided a house in Batu, a mountain resort in Malang, East Java, where Dr Azahari bin Husin was hiding. In the ensuing shootout the man most wanted by the police died of triple gunshot wound to his chest. His death surprised many who regarded him as a formless shadow eluding capture for a spate of suicide bombings he was known to have maste

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