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Huji hideout busted
[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion yesterday tossed in the calaboose two members of banned Islamist thug outfit Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI),
Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west.
including its acting chief Abdul Hannan Sabbir, from a hideout at Keraniganj.
| Keraniganj Upazilla (the things are apparently capitalized when part of a place name, like County Cork) is somewhere in the middle of Dhaka District, which is somewhere in Bangladesh. It can most definitely be found on a map of sufficient detail. It is noted for giving the world Mohammad Rafique, Left Arm Spinner (no doubt something awfully grand) for Bangladesh National Cricket Team. |
Sabbir, 51, is an accused in sensational cases for carrying out kabooms on an Udichi programme in Jessore and a Pahela Baishakh celebrations event at Ramna Batamul, said Rab officials at a presser at its headquarters in the capital.
| A miscreant of the first water, that man. |
The other arrestee Ainul Haq, 28, was coordinating recruitment and secret training of HuJI thugs.
| Not quite as secret as hoped, poor dear. |
Sabbir was also sued in a case filed for planting a 76 kilogram bomb at Sheikh Hasina's rally venue at Kotalipara in Gopalganj in 2000.
According to Rab, the arrestees rented a house near Pachgona Government Primary School in Ati Bazar area a month ago by disguising themselves as garment workers.
| They dressed in patchwork, which fooled everyone, especially the school kiddies up the street. |
Three teams of Rab-10, including members of its bomb disposal unit, jointly raided the house around 2:00am yesterday and captured the HuJI men.
| Mahmoud the Weasel's fourth cousin twice removed on his mother's side was actually the landlord. That and brickyard owner are two of the favored professions of the Weasel clan. |
The law enforcers also recovered some compact disks (CDs), a bomb-making manual and organisational books of the outfit.
HuJI has been trying to reorganise recently, claimed Commander M Sohail, director of Legal and Media Wing of Rab.
"HuJI members were visiting different madrasas to recruit members and impart training to them. Analysis of such activities suggests they were planning to carry out subversive activities," he told The Daily Star.
| Of course. That's why zakat money supports such institutions. It is better give of your substance to support a jihadi than to go on jihad yourself, after all. |
An Afghan war veteran Sabbir was the founding organising secretary of HuJI and later acted as commander of its northern unit.
Hailing from Bogra, he used to reside in Rajshahi and run a women's madrasa there.
He absconded from Rajshahi after the present government took over and launched a combing operation against thugs, mentioned the Rab official.
The thug took training on arms and explosives at camps in Ukhia under Cox's Bazar to join Iraq war in 1988, but Indian police tossed in the calaboose him for trespassing.
| Trespassing? That seems a bit mild, given what he was doing while spending time uninvited on someone else's property... |
Later in 1993, he returned home and started training the new recruits of HuJI.
"All right, lads -- attach the red wire to the black wire, twist together and get the wire nu-- NO, Belalullah, NOT the green wi--"
BOOM!!
"Dammit, we lose more trainees that way. Who knew inbreeding led to so much colourblindness!" |
On December 14 last year Rab busted a HuJI den at Raujan of Chittagong and tossed in the calaboose four military trainers. Sabbir was present there and managed to escape arrest.
| The mills of the Rab grind slowly, but...(you know the rest, of course.) |
According to confessions made by already tossed in the calaboose HuJI leaders, the beturbanned goons are responsible for more than 20 deadly bomb and grenade attacks since 1999 that killed over 100 people.
| Hang 'em high. After a fair trial, of course. |
Posted by: Fred 2011-04-26 |
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