Still Among Us

After the Temanggung raid failed to bring in Noordin, the TNI is getting into the act. The police should remain in control of the operation to hunt him down.

August 18, 2009

WHATEVER the uproar over the assault on the terrorist in Temanggung two weeks ago, it ended in anticlimactic fashion. The well-planned operation—including efforts for a live broadcast on private television—failed to nab the leader most wanted by the police: Noordin M. Top. A hail of gunfire and a low-powered explosive device only killed Ibrohim, one of Noordin’s henchmen who had been working as a florist at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Jakarta

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