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RAB discovers JMB den after arrest of outfit's top bomb expert
 | You'd think the JMB would figure out that they can't beat the RAB, but no, they keep making bombs and skulking around in the worst upazilas ... |
Rapid Action Battalion on Friday discovered a den of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) | A den? That's not good, if you're in it. Dens tend to have fewer escape routes than an open field , f'r instance |
as the elite anti- crime troops carried out daylong raids following the arrest of a top explosive expert of the militant outfit after years of manhunt, officials said.
RAB sources said they discovered a JMB den, which appeared to be a training camp cum bomb making plant of the outlawed group, at East Monipur area in Mirpur in line with the confessions of arrested Jahedul Islam Sumon alias Mizan and his wife Sharmin Haque Lata.
| Got the honey to do a little bomb-building, did he? She smuggled the ingredients under the burqa? |
| Poor wifey. She didn't even rate an alias... |
They said some 11 bombs and huge materials or chemicals used to make bombs were discovered from the scene. "We are still gathering information as the RAB operations ended just an hour ago," a RAB spokesman told BSS.
| Jeez-o-pete, that kind of thing is dangerous! The thought of hanging out where jihadis were making bombs gives me the shivers... but not a frisson -- I am a lady. |
RAB officials earlier said they arrested Mizan on the basis of an intelligence tip-off but they had to face difficulties subsequently as they later raided his rented house where his wife detonated bombs injuring herself and their two minor children. | It was for families like this that social workers were invented. |
"Mizan was earlier jailed for 20 years by a court after trial in absentia and we were looking for him for years as he was trying to regroup JMB and training the militants on explosives and impoverished grenades," the RAB spokesman said.
Another RAB official familiar with the arrest sequences said when they raided Mizan's residence at about 10.30 pm yesterday along with him, "he gave his wife a coded instruction knocking the door saying, how are you? I am sick."
"Knock-knock."
"Who's there?"
"I'm sick."
"Okay, I'll pull the pin!" |
"Immediately afterwards, a bomb went off inside forcing the RAB men to run for cover along with Mizan," a newsman who witnessed the operation staying with the RAB troops said.
| "Duck! She's gonna explode!" |
| The RAB allows embeds? Where do I sign up? |
The explosion wounded Mizan's wife Sharmin Haque Lata and her two- year son and two-month old daughter while she gave in after more than three hours of resistance until early this morning when they were rushed to a city facility for treatment.
| "Okay, honey, it's off to the Dhaka Medical Center for you, and to DCFS with the tykes!" |
The owner of the house said Mizan rented the second floor of the four- storey apartment building last month identifying him as a construction businessman.| Good lord -- the man is a liar as well?!? |
| Construction, demolition...two sides of the same coin, really. |
JMB suffered a huge setback in view of a massive anti- militant security clampdown in the past several years which also saw the execution of six kingpins of the outfit including its founder Shaikh Abdur Rahman and his second in command Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai in 2007.
| But what about the Number Three? Number Threes are key for an organization seeking to rebuild. |
RAB officials said the militant groups like JMB were trying to regroup in different names in view of the massive anti- militant campaign as the government so far banned four of the outfits - JMB, HuJI, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh and Shahadat-e al Hikma.
Posted by: Steve White 2009-05-16 |
