A police source has told the Jakarta Globe they are convinced that the two men killed in Friday's terror raid are Saifuddin Zuhri bin Djaelani Irsyad and Mohamad Syahrir, both wanted in relation to the July Jakarta hotel bombings, but police will have to carry out tests before their identities are confirmed.

The source said forensic tests and if necessary, DNA tests, would be carried out before police formally identified those killed in the raid. The bodies were being taken to the National Police Hospital in East Jakarta.

Police on Friday carried out a raid on a kost, or boarding house, in Ciputat, Tangerang, near the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University. Both Saifuddin and Mohamad were believed to be residing at the house.

Police last month released a letter by Saifudin in which he claimed to be the new leader of the Al Qaeda network in Southeast Asia.

A video obtained by police from terror mastermind Noordin M Top's laptop computer showed Saifudin monitoring the suicide bombers and preparing them for the July attacks. Police believe that Saifudin was the head of the operation, recruiting the suicide bombers.

Syahrir is the brother-in-law of a militant suspect shot dead by police in a Central Java raid in September.