Terrorism has been dealt a huge blow in Asia. Scratch four more assholes off the list of al Qaeda’s senior leadership. Nice.

Southeast Asia’s most wanted terrorist killed in Java raid
By Bill Roggio

Within the past 24 hours, Indonesia’s elite counterterrorism police unit Detachment 88 (Densus 88) shot and killed Top along with three other associates. During the raid, police acquired two laptops and documents, which they said confirm that all four terrorists who were killed during the raid comprised the leadership of al Qaeda in Southeast Asia. Police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri suggested in a press conference today that the documents picked up in Solo show that they wiped out most of al Qaeda in Southeast Asia’s senior leadership in this raid.

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