Jakarta, Aug 12 (DPA) The man killed in a weekend raid by Indonesia's anti-terrorism police was not the country's most wanted man, Noordin Mohammed Top, police said Wednesday.
DNA tests proved that the man was Ibrahim, accused of playing a key role in last month's bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta, said Edy Suparwoko, head of the country's police disaster victim identification department.
A day before those attacks, Ibrahim, who worked as a florist at the Ritz-Carlton, had smuggled the bombs and one of the two suicide bombers into the hotels, which are linked by an underground tunnel, said national police spokesman Nanan Soekarna.
'He was the one who controlled and conducted the survey' for the attacks, Soekarna said at a news conference.
Police said they believe Noordin was the mastermind behind the July 17 hotel attacks.
Local television channels, citing unnamed police sources, initially said the man who was killed Saturday in a barrage of police gunfire on a house in the Central Java district of Temanggung was Noordin.
The house was besieged by more than 100 police officers armed with automatic weapons and bombs for 18 hours before its sole occupant was declared dead.