JAKARTA, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Police in Indonesia said Saturday they successfully foiled a plot to assassinate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Police officials would not confirm reports that an unidentified individual killed during a police raid on a suspected Islamic militant hideout near Jakarta was Noordin Muhammad Top, a wanted terrorism suspect, The New York Times reported.
Terrorism expert Sidney Jones of the International Crisis Group questioned news reports that identified Top as the individual killed in the separate 16-hour raid.
"What we do know is that the police intercepted this likely attack, and they get incredible kudos for that," Jones said.
Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri, Indonesia's national police chief, a second raid in the town of Bekasi left two unidentified suspects dead.
Danuri said, according to an accomplice, the assassination plot appeared to include the use of a truck laden with explosives that would be detonated at Top's residence.
The police official told the Times a truck filled with explosives was found during the police investigation into the plot.
