BALI, Indonesia (AP) -- Alleged Bali bombing mastermind Noordin Mohamed Top narrowly escaped capture Friday after he fled a remote village hours before a pre-dawn raid by anti-terror police on his hideout, police said.
Noordin and his close aide Azahari bin Husin are two of Southeast Asia's most wanted men and believed to be key members of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah -- the group suspected in last weekend's suicide bombings on Bali island.
The two Malaysians have kept one step ahead of a massive manhunt for years, moving constantly in densely populated areas of the sprawling nation made up of 220 million people and more than 10,000 islands.
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