Dulmatin Apparently Still on the Loose
By Kenneth Conboy
With much media fanfare, Philippine authorities last month claimed to have found a month-old corpse in the southernmost part of their country that allegedly belonged to fugitive Jemaah Islamiyah bomber Dulmatin. At the time, Indonesian security officials expressed skepticism that the corpse belonged to the terrorist. Their skepticism was reportedly based on the lack of corroborating testimony from sources within the radical Muslim community in the southern Philippines.
Earlier today, an Indonesian police official unofficially stated that tissue samples taken from the corpse did not match Dulmatin. For those keeping count, this is the seventh time that the regional media will have prematurely written Dulmatin's epiteph.