Cubicle Number Nine

Dulmatin is believed to have taken over the leadership of Jemaah Islamiyah’s military wing after Noordin M. Top’s death. After eight years of being hunted by Indonesian and Philippine authorities, he was killed in a raid in Pamulang, Banten.

March 17, 2010

JUST before midday on Tuesday last week, a husband and his wife arrived at an Internet cafe on the second floor of a Multiplus shop-house in Pamulang, Banten. The husband began using one of the cafe’s computers. His wife went outside again and headed for the Rinova Salon located in the same shop-house complex.

A tall, heavily built man sporting a beard arrived several minutes later. He immediately proceeded to the second floor and sat down at

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