The man killed in the raid was identified as Ibrohim, who worked as a florist in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Jakarta and is suspected to be the inside man on the suicide bombings at two luxury hotels in Jakarta last month.
“We checked samples with (Ibrohim’s) family in Cilimus and it’s a 100 per cent match,” Eddy Saparwoko, head of Indonesia’s Disaster Victim Identification unit, told a news conference. Cilimus is a district in Cirebon in West Java.
Top is believed to have planned last month’s near-simultaneous on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, which killed nine people and wounded 53.
The police were at first confident that Noordin had been killed during an 18-hour siege at a remote farmhouse in Central Java. However, they said today that forensic tests now showed they had killed an accomplice, not Noordin.
Media reports quoting police sources said Noordin probably fled a few hours before the anti-terrorism unit raided the house. Police confirmed that a suspect had told them that Noordin was in the house.
National police spokesman Nanan Soekarna said the authorities believed Noordin was still in Indonesia and expected him to keep on trying to launch attacks. “The assumption is that he will keep on doing so,” he told reporters.
Ibrohim, who was shot dead in a raid in Central Java last week.
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