Bali mastermind killed, says Yudhoyono

"We can confirm that one of those killed was Mr Dulamtin, one of the top south-east Asian terrorists that we have been looking for," Yudhoyono said on a visit to Canberra.
 
The US had offered a 10-million-dollar bounty for Dulamatin, who only had one name.
Dulmatin was a leader of the south-east Asian Islamist group Jemaah Islamiya (JI), blamed for the Bali blasts which killed 202 people, 88 of them Australians.
 
Yudhoyono promised to track down more of the Al-Qaeda linked group in an historic speech to the Australian parliament.
 
"Just yesterday our police authorities raided an important terrorist cell in a suburb of Jakarta and put several terrorist operatives out of commission," he told MPs.

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"In any case, the Indonesian authorities will continue to hunt them down and do all we can to prevent them from harming our people."
 
"It’s a major breakthrough on the regional war on terrorism because he was one of the last surviving king pins of splinter group of JI that was intent on perpetrating terrorist attacks,” comments Jakarta correspondent Stephen Fitzpatrick. “He was directly involved in planning and indeed carrying out the 2002 Bali bombing where 202 people died and he was involved in the 2003 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta" 
The organisation has now lost its leadership, he says.
 
"Whether new splinter groups can reform and launch similar attacks remains to be seen and I suppose the potential still is there."
 
US President Barack Obama is to visit Indonesia and Australia this month.