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Southeast Asia
Police Intensify Search for Bali Suspects
2005-10-09
Investigators desperate for a breakthrough in the Bali terrorist attacks on Saturday dropped thousands of photos of the two suspected masterminds over a city close to where one of the fugitives narrowly escaped capture a day earlier. A helicopter flew low over the city of Solo and the surrounding area in Central Java province early Saturday, releasing 10,000 photographs of Noordin Mohamed Top and Azahari bin Husin, believed to be key leaders in the Southeast Asia-based terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, which has been linked to al-Qaida. Police have struggled to produce any firm leads since suicide bombers launched near-simultaneous attacks on three crowded cafes in Bali tourist resorts in Kuta district and nearby Jimbaran beach on Oct. 1. The death toll in the attacks climbed to 23 — including the three bombers — after one of the injured died Friday in a hospital.

Noordin slipped away from authorities Friday, fleeing a remote village in Central Java province's Purwantoro district hours before a raid by anti-terror police, police said. Noordin and Azahari are two of Southeast Asia's most wanted men. But the two Malaysians have kept one step ahead of a massive hunt for years, moving constantly in densely populated areas of this sprawling nation of 220 million people and more than 10,000 islands.
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