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Dr. Azahari bin Husin (circa 1957 – November 9 2005), Malaysian engineer, is believed to be the technical mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombing, and various other Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) attacks; as a result he was nicknamed the "Demolition Man". He was killed in November 2005.

Azahari was an engineer with a Ph.D. in property valuation from University of Reading, United Kingdom and was a lecturer at the University of Technology in Johor, Malaysia. Later he received extensive bomb training in Afghanistan. He authored the JI bomb manual, used in the Bali bombing and the 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing. He also planned the September 9, 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing. He was also implicated in the 2005 Bali bombings. Prior to his death, he was one of the most wanted men in Indonesia along with Noordin Mohammed Top.

In July of 2004, Noordin and Azahari narrowly escaped a police raid on a rented house west of Jakarta, where forensic experts later found traces of explosives used in the embassy bombing. Neighbours described both as reclusive men who left the property only to pray at a nearby mosque; and they said that before the bombing, they saw the duo loading heavy boxes into a white delivery van which is the same type used in that attack.<ref name="escape1">Template:Cite web</ref>

Before the Marriott Hotel bombing Azahari is known to have stayed with Asmar Latin Sani, the suspected Marriott suicide bomber, at his home in Bengkulu on the island of Sumatra.<ref name="stayed1">Template:Cite web</ref>

Both men were close associates of Jemaah Islamiyah's former operational chief, Riduan Isamuddin (better known as Hambali) who was captured in Thailand in 2003. <ref name="escape1">Template:Cite web</ref>

On November 9, 2005, Indonesian police, acting on a tip-off, conducted a raid on one of his hideouts in Batu, near Malang in East Java. Three suspected jihadi terrorists barricaded themselves inside a house and they put up stiff resistance, throwing grenades and firing at the police outside. This was followed by a series of explosions, one of which was a suicide blast. Police identified the intact head of Azahari<ref name="Dead1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Dead2">Chew, Amy (Nov. 10, 2005). "Azahari Dead". New Straits Times, p. 1, 4.</ref>. Azahari is known to have strapped bombs to his body to prevent him from being taken alive.

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