Terror chief escapes in Indonesia

AP/CNN:

One of Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorists escaped capture when security forces launched a raid on his hideout early Saturday, sparking a gunbattle that left two militants dead, police said.

Noordin Top, regarded as a key leader of the al-Qaida-linked group Jemaah Islamiyah, was not in the safe house in the Indonesian province of Central Java when heavily armed police arrived before dawn, national police chief Gen. Sutanto told reporters in Jakarta.

"Noordin M. Top was not found yet and we are still searching for him," he said after visiting the scene of the operation. "The four men captured dead and alive were very dangerous."

Police recovered guns, ammunition, a computer and several boxes believed to contain explosives, Sutanto said.

Authorities started staking out the location in Binangun, a village in Central Java, three months ago, "but when they launched their raid at around 3 a.m., he was gone," police spokesman Brig. Gen. Anton Bahrul Alam told el-Shinta radio.

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Life on the lamb continues for a terrorist.

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