On this date,
November 9, 2005, a Malaysian Terrorist, Dr. Azahari Husin was killed in a
police raid in Indonesia. I will post information about him from Wikipedia.
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Azahari Husin
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Dr.
Azahari bin Husin (14 September 1957 – 9 November 2005), also Azahari
Husin, Azhari Husin, was a Malaysian who was believed to be the
technical mastermind behind the 2002
Bali bombing. He was killed in a police raid on his hideout in Indonesia in
2005. He was nicknamed the "Demolition Man".
History
He
received extensive bomb training in Afghanistan. He authored the JI bomb
manual, used in the Bali bombing and the 2003
Marriott Hotel bombing. He also planned the 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing and was implicated in the 2005 Bali bombings.
Prior to his death, he was one of the most wanted men in Indonesia along with Noordin Mohammed Top.
In
July 2004, Husin and Noordin narrowly escaped a police raid on a rented house
west of Jakarta, where forensic experts later found traces of explosives used
in the embassy bombing. Neighbours described both as reclusive men who left the
property only to pray at a nearby mosque; and they said that before the
bombing, they saw the duo loading heavy boxes into a white delivery van which
is the same type used in that attack.
Before
the Marriott Hotel bombing, Husin is known to have stayed with Asmar Latin Sani,
the suspected Marriott suicide bomber, at his home in Bengkulu on the island of
Sumatra.
Both
men were close associates of Jemaah Islamiyah's former operational chief, Riduan Isamuddin (better known as Hambali),
who was captured in Thailand in 2003.
Death
On
9 November 2005, Indonesian police, acting on a tip-off, located Husin. They
conducted a raid on one of his hideouts in Batu, near Malang in East Java with Detachment 88
operators sent to assist regular police officers. Three suspected jihadist
terrorists barricaded themselves inside a house and they put up stiff
resistance, throwing grenades and firing bullets at the police outside. This
was followed by a series of explosions, one of which was a suicide blast by his
assistant setting off his bomb vest. Police identified the intact corpse of
Azahari, with a bullet wound in his chest. Husin was shot and killed by a
police sniper, after which one of his disciples blew himself up to prevent him
from being taken alive.
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