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Bangla Boomers Busted by RAB
The elite strike force RAB foiled an attempt of suicide attack by arresting two members of suicide squad of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from the city’s Maghbazar and Hatirpool yesterday and recovered live bomb from one of them.

The arrested were identified as Hafez Ahmed Mainuddin Udoy (20), son of Sahabuddin Ahmed a student of Jamia Ahmadiya Sonia Hefjokhana Madrasa in Chittagong and Sheikh Arif Uddin, son of Sheikh Farid Uddin of Kachua in Bagerhat district.

Acting on a tip off that a suicide squad member came to Dhaka from Chittagong on December 30 and was staying in hotel, Sebika, at Maghbazar, a squad of RAB-2 conducted raid and arrested Udoy from in front of Sonali Bank while he was boarding a taxicab at around 2 pm, RAB sources said. The RAB members recovered a live bomb contained in a sweetmeat packet from his possession, sources added. Later, the RAB personnel defused the bomb.

Following Udoy’s painfully extracted confessional statement, the RAB team also raided a shopping complex, Eastern Plaza, at Hatirpool and arrested Arif at around 3 pm. During the raid the RAB personnel cordoned the market and its surrounding areas and no one could enter into the market as well as going out of it. High officials of RAB are interrogating them.

The RAB personnel confirmed that both Udoy and Arif came to Dhaka with an assignment of carrying out suicide attacks in Dhaka on the 31st night, a highly placed source in RAB said adding that one person gave him the bomb but he declined to disclose his identity.

Several teams of RAB are conducting block raids in different parts of Dhaka as they believed that there is more suicide squad members in Dhaka who came here from another district for carrying out suicide bombings, sources said.
Posted by: Steve White 2006-01-02
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