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RAB arrests key explosive supplier to militants
DHAKA - Bangladesh’s elite security force said on Saturday it had arrested the main supplier of explosives to an Islamic group waging a suicide bombing campaign to establish Islamic law in the Muslim nation.

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) also said it had seized a huge cache of explosives and bomb-making equipment sufficient to make 200 powerful bombs. “We have arrested Tariqul, 28, who we believe is the main supplier of explosives to the Jamayetul Mujahideen,” a senior RAB officer told AFP. “He’s being interrogated and information has already helped us seize explosives across the country,” the officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"In fact, he's been so helpful that he's going to help us recover these explosives. We're going out really early this morning to get them," the officer added.
Police have linked the outlawed group to a series of nationwide blasts since August and a new suicide bomb campaign that has claimed 21 lives in the past two weeks.

Thousands of police and all 10 battalion of the RAB, set up a year ago, have been making nationwide raids to hunt the members of the group and its fugitive leader Shaikh Abdur Rahman.
Posted by: Steve White 2005-12-11
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