On
this date, 9 March 2010, an Indonesian Terrorist, Dulmatin was A.K.A Genius was
killed in a police raid. Let us not forget the victims who died under his
terrorist activities, glad that another evil man was terminated from the face
of the earth. I will post information about him from Wikipedia.
Dulmatin
(6 June 1970 – 9 March 2010) was a senior figure in the militant group Jemaah
Islamiyah (JI) and one of the most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia. He was
also known as Amar Usmanan, Joko Pitoyo, Joko Pitono, Abdul
Matin, Pitono, Muktarmar, Djoko, and Noval. He
had a nickname "Genius". Dulmatin was a Javanese with 172 cm tall,
weighing 70 kg, with a brown complexion.
According
to the Jakarta Globe when he was a young man he attended a religious
boarding school run by the founder of the Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Bakar Bashir.
Dulmatin
had received training in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. He was believed to have
been the protégé of Azahari Husin and under Azahari's guidance Dulmatin became
an electronics specialist and bomb making expert. He participated in the car
bomb attack on the Philippine ambassador in Jakarta on 1 August 2000 and
assembled the timers for the 38 Christmas 2000 church bombings in Indonesia
which killed 19 people. He was one of the masterminds behind the 2002 Bali
bombings in Indonesia which killed 202 people, including 27 from the United
Kingdom and 88 Australian citizens . Working alongside Azahari, Dulmatin helped
to assemble car bomb and explosive vests used in the attack. He allegedly set
off one of the bombs with a mobile phone.
He
was believed to be with the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines since 2003 and
was involved in providing explosive expertise and training other militants.
From radio intercept and human intelligence, authorities believe that Dulmatin
was wounded in a gun battle with the Philippines military in January 2007, on
the southern island of Jolo. In May 2007, Dulmatin again eluded capture when he
fled from a safe house in Simunul island just hours before Philippine police
and military forces raided the location. The authorities found 4 children
believed to be Dulmatin's children.
The
United States government offered a reward of up to US$10 million for the
capture of Dulmatin under the Rewards For Justice Program.
At
the beginning of 2010 Dulmatin began training a group of militants in the
foothills of Jalin, just south of Banda Aceh in Indonesia in an attempt to
build a 'nerve centre for Southeast Asian terrorism' under the name 'Al-Qaeda
of the Verandah of Mecca.' The group was quickly wiped out, beginning with
police raids on 22 February 2010, when many were killed or arrested, and
followed up with intelligence from locals and ex-rebels who banded against the
non-Acehnese militants.
Dulmatin
was killed in a police raid in Pamulang, Jakarta on 9 March 2010 on the
outskirts of Jakarta by Detachment 88, Indonesia's special counter-terrorism
unit.
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