Police to hand over Azahari's body after autopsy<\/p>\n
Eva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post\/Jakarta<\/p>\n
Police say they will allow the relatives of Azahari bin Husin
\nto claim his body and send it back to Malaysia, but only after
\nthey have completed a full autopsy on it.<\/p>\n
National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Soenarko said on Friday
\nthat the police would have no problem if Azahari's wife or other
\nfamily members wanted the body to be returned after a complete
\nexamination at the National Police hospital.<\/p>\n
\"Right now, Azahari's body, as well as Arman's, are being
\nexamined at the Sukanto Police Hospital in Kramatjati, East
\nJakarta,\" Soenarko said.<\/p>\n
Azahari, a Malaysian national, was one of the most wanted men
\nin the Southeast Asia region for his role in some of its
\ndeadliest terror attacks. Azahari and his operative Arman were
\nkilled during a police raid on their hideout, a villa in Malang,
\nEast Java, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Badaruddin Ismail, a friend of the Azahari family
\nin Malaysia, said in Kuala Lumpur, as reported by AFP, that
\nAzahari's wife Noraini will seek to have her husband's body
\nrepatriated.<\/p>\n
The bodies of the two terrorists arrived at the Sukanto Police
\nHospital on Friday for autopsy purposes.<\/p>\n
Hospital head Brig. Gen. Aidy Rawas said that the autopsies,
\nto be carried out on Saturday, were part of a standard
\nidentification process in forensic work.<\/p>\n
He said that the autopsy and dental identification would take
\naround two days to complete, and it would take another six days
\nfor DNA testing, depending on when the comparative genetic
\nmaterials from Azahari's family in Malaysia arrived.<\/p>\n
\"What is certain is that the identification process through
\nDNA testing will be conducted as secondary verification, as
\nrequested by National Police chief Gen. Sutanto,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Aidy's remarks, however, contradict Sutanto's, who said
\nearlier in the day that DNA testing was unnecessary as
\nfingerprinting had provided conclusive evidence that one of two
\nbodies recovered from the destroyed Malang house was that of
\nAzahari.<\/p>\n
\"We have taken his fingerprints, and it's clear that they
\nmatch, so we don't need to do a DNA test,\" he said. \"We have data
\nthat dates back to 1998 from when Azahari was applying for a job
\nhere -- it is 100 percent certain that it was Azahari.\"<\/p>\n
According to the first autopsy report made in East Java,
\nAzahari was killed by three bullets through the heart before he
\nhad the chance to blow himself up. He had been wearing at the
\ntime of his death a vest with a bomb in it. But Arman did
\ndetonate some bombs. The police said they found 30 bombs inside
\nthe house.<\/p>\n
Head of the health division at the East Java Police Sr. Comr.
\nMusaddeq Ishaq said he had performed the first autopsy according
\nto the Interpol standard and sent the results directly to the
\nNational Police chief Gen. Sutanto and East Java Police chief
\nInsp. Gen. Edi Sunarno.<\/p>\n
Azahari's death is seen as a major step forward for the local
\nsecurity authorities in battling the Jamaah Islamiyah terror
\nnetwork, which is believed to be behind a series of attacks in
\nthe country.<\/p>\n
Azahari and his compatriot Noordin M. Top, who is still on the
\nrun, are the key figures blamed for those atrocities.<\/p>",
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