A terrorist named Dulmatin died ...?

Liputan6.com, Jakarta: The body of a suspected Dulmatin alias Joko Pitono at the Police Hospital dr Soekanto, Kramatjati, East Jakarta, following a raid conducted action Detachment 88 teams in the region Pamulang, Tangerang, on Tuesday (9 / 3) [read: The body of Alleged Terrorists Arrive at the Police Hospital]. Although the fact still in questionable, the rumors seemed to reveal a football back the terrorist actions.

Dulmatin has a real name Joko Pitono. But, he had many aliases, namely Amar Usmanan, Joko Pitoyo, Abdul Matin, Pitono, Muktarmar, Djoko, and Noval. He was born in the village of Petarukan, District Petarukan, Pemalang, Central Java, on June 6, 1970.

The BBC called Dulmatin nicknamed the "genius". He is widely recognized as a senior member of Jamaah Islamiyah militant group and became a fugitive Indonesian government, the Philippines, and the United States. In fact, the U.S. offered a reward of U.S. $ 10 million for anyone who knows the whereabouts. This indicates that the influence of the terrorists.

According to Washington, he Peranakan Javanese-Arabic by 172 centimeters tall and weighing 70 kilograms was an electronics expert who has trained in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. To Indonesia after the mid-1990s, he became a regular visitor to one of the pesantren's Abu Bakar Bashir in Solo, Central Java.

Used car brokers believed to be protective or Dr Azahari Husin. Azahari, brain Bali bombings in 2002 which killed an ambush in Batu, Malang, in 2005. That said, he acquired skills as a candidate electricity from Dr. Azahari.

According to the Asia Pacific Foundation, Dulmatin is a bit of militants who could assemble a bomb detonates klorat well and nitrate. His name is internationally soared after a key figure behind the bomb attacks on two nightclubs in Bali, in October 2002. At that time, 202 people were killed.

People were also believed to have installed one of the bombs that are associated with cell phones with the suicide bombers in Bali. Together with Dr. Azahari, he also assembled the car bomb used in the attack.

Like Dr. Azahari and Noordin Mohamad Top colleagues, some analysts believe that Dulmatin involved in various bomb attacks in East Asia. But not enough evidence to reinforce this suspicion. And since 2003, he believed was based in the southern Philippines helping to train members of another militant in secret camps.

And February 2009, the Philippine military confirmed that Dulmatin not killed in gunfire in 2007. However, he was hiding in the jungles in the south of the country.

At that time, the Philippine Marine Corps Commander Major General Juancho Sabban stressed that he was in Sulu province, which became the base of Abu Sayyaf terrorist group. In fact, he said, other fugitives Jamaah Islamiyah, Omar Patek, also located in that area.

Juanco says, Umar Patek and Dulmatin, who hid in the Philippines after the Bali Bombing in 2002, has trained members of militant groups the Philippines, and designer of the bomb attacks in the country. In 2005, he was thought to have been killed in air strikes if the Philippine Air Force. However, it did not.

January 2007, the Philippine army believes that Dulmatin injured in gunfire exchange with the military when he clashed with the Abu Sayyaf group. However, the latest news from Pamulang, Tangerang, as if a new answer for that official information. (ANT / SHA)