"On Thursday, God willing, (Noordin's) family will come here to take the body to Johor, Malaysia," national police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters.
Malaysian Noordin, a 41-year-old who led a violent splinter faction of the radical Jemaah Islamiah (JI) network was killed along with three other militants at the bloody end of a nine-hour siege in Central Java last week.
Police said earlier in the week they had decided to hand Noordin's body over to his first wife in Malaysia, Rahmah Rusdi, with whom he had three children.
Two other women he had married while on the run in Indonesia had their request to access the body turned down by Indonesian police because their marriages were never officially registered.
Three Noordin's accomplices to be charged
Police also announced today that three people who were arrested during last week's swoop near Solo city had been officially named suspects, a legal move allowing them to be held for longer.
Supono, alias Kedu, faces likely terror charges for assisting Noordin and helping in a foiled plot to blow up the home of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono with a truck bomb, police spokesman Nanan Soekarna said.
Another suspect, Bejo, faces charges over helping to shelter Noordin. Putri Munawaroh, the wife of one of the militants killed in the raid, also faces charges of sheltering Noordin.
The death of Noordin brought to an end an exhaustive manhunt for a man who led an organisation he once labelled "Al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago" and who was blamed for a string of deadly attacks.
He is believed to have masterminded the meticulously planned double suicide bombing of the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta in July in which seven people were killed.
He is also said to have been behind a 2003 attack on the Marriott that killed 12 people, as well as the 2004 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta and 2005 attacks on tourist restaurants on the holiday island of Bali.
- AFP
Comments
by Jimmy Ng
Kerismuddin is sad that He couldnt get a chance to rehabilitate Nordin Top.He said, "...a life is a life ,irregardless...." ...How much more dungu can this Menteri get ?...Watch out Malaysia ! This fella is supposedly a PM in Waiting !!!! We , the rakyat , wish to, no,..... demand to know, who is footing the bill to fly this Nordin fella back to Malaysia ??? MACC, where r you ? If the fella is flown home at taxpayers' expense, we would like MACC to investigate wrongful use of government facilities , abuse of power !!
by Louis
Let us hope that we do not send an RMAF plane to fly the body home. The family should foot the bill for taking him home.
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I bet that some senior govt officers will be greeting the body on arrival.
A dead terrorist with VIP treatment and his family will be receiving monthly cash aids .
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