I guess this is just one example of mistaken identity because Indonesian police officers confirmed that Noordin Mohammed Top is still alive. The Indonesian crime operatives confirmed that the results from the conducted DNA tests proved that the most wanted terrorist Noordin Mohammed Top was not the person killed during the raid on a farmhouse in Java in Indonesia

Counterterrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna told Al Jazeera "He's not yet dead, in fact DNA tests prove that the body that was recovered was not of Noordin Mohammed Top," A spokesman for Top's family also claimed that the photograph of the person killed did not look like Noordin Mohammed Top.

They probably have all the needed information to identify the subject, but it could be a little confusing due to the recovered bodies from the scene has the same description as that of Top, and with the state of the body recovered, they could hardly identify. The person may have been one of Top's men, and the real Top has already fled during the encounter. The authorities made an immediate conclusion that they have in fact gunned down the most wanted terrorist only to find out that they got the wrong guy. I guess they need to work harder on their search and identification of their target before they kill any innocent person.
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