This one is sliding under the radar everywhere except Down Under, it seems:
THE most feared terrorist in Asia, Azahari bin Husin, the man responsible for the two Bali bombings and an attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta, has blown himself up after being cornered by police in East Java.
Police said it appeared Azahari, Indonesia’s most wanted man, had died during a police raid in the city of Malang yesterday afternoon.
Indonesia’s elite anti-terror squad Detachment 88 tracked Azahari down after months of surveillance. It is understood one of the master bomb-maker’s acolytes inadvertently led police to the hideout. Police have hunted the elusive Malaysian militant since the 2002 Bali blasts, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Strangely, it is nobody’s top story. Not Google News, not AP, not Reuters.
If true, this is a significant move forward in the war on terror–and yet, the world media is yawning and moving on to the more important things, like the NJ and VA gubernatorial races. Or the latest casualty in Iraq.
What is wrong with these people?
Um… they’re not interviewing these exploding terrorist masterminds when they explode?
Maybe some shrapnel and flash-damage might knock some sense into them.
Comment by Laurence Simon — 11/09/2005 @ 12:44 pm
Oh, come on. Dead Asians are barely a step up from dead Jews. Why would anyone care?
Comment by Eric J — 11/09/2005 @ 3:38 pm
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Pingback by Score 1 for the good guys at white pebble — 11/09/2005 @ 5:55 pm
I’d suggest this calls for tunafish for Tig and Gracie.
I hope Tig is better after his experience with the impacted hairball. I hope you are not so annoyed by upchucking cats now.
Comment by Michael Lonie — 11/09/2005 @ 11:59 pm
Malang, the town in Surabaya, Java, is Malaysian Malay for “unlucky”. Considering the dude is Malaysian till today and lived most of his life in Malaysia… that is indeed irony. A good kind :-).
Comment by Rajan Rishyakaran — 11/10/2005 @ 6:17 am