JAKARTA - Many Indonesians breathed easier last week when local television networks announced the arrest of Noordin Mohammad Top, Indonesia's most-wanted terrorist and suspected organizer of last month's deadly JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton suicide bombings.
Reports breathlessly announced that Top had been killed during a televised 16-hour siege at his supposed hideout in central Java. Some reports carried the qualifier that the Indonesian police who conducted the investigation, pursuit and siege took the "official position" that the terrorist had in fact neither been arrested nor killed.
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