year hunt for Noordin has produced a steady flow of tantalizing near-misses. In October 2003 Noordin Mohammed Top and his Malaysian master bomb maker Azahari Husin fled from a police raid on their rented hideout in Bandung city, West Java. He escaped arrest again when the police raided several homes in Central Java in October 2005, and in November the same year. Local media last year also reported Noordin narrowly evaded capture in East Java after seeking treatment for a liver illness. __
