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JMB man who killed Kunio arrested
[Dhaka Tribune] Police say they have placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
the prime suspect in Japanese citizen Hoshi Kunio's murder, adding that the arrested JMB man also killed a mazar khadem last month in Rangpur.

Masud Rana, 38, is a regional leader of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
, said Humayun Kabir, the acting deputy inspector general (DIG) for Rangpur Range.

Rana was arrested from his house, the acting DIG said without disclosing the time of arrest.

Police sources, however, said Rana had been arrested sometime before last Thursday. News of his arrest had not been announced to the media earlier for the sake of ongoing investigation, the acting DIG said yesterday.

Rana had previously been in jail for two years, but secured bail and started to reorganise JMB activities in the district following his release.

"Masud Rana is the JMB regional commander of the region and was one the shooters [of Kunio]. He confessed in the court of Senior Judge Shafiul Alam that he shot at Hoshi Kunio," acting DIG Kabir said.

The same person killed Khadem Rahmat Ali on November 10 at Choita intersection in Kaunia upazila and also tried to kill Bahai community leader Ruhul Amin two days earlier.

Following Rana's confession, the police recovered three knives including one that Rana admitted of using to hack khadem Rahmat to death. They also searched the vicinity of his home and found fifty empty cans that were supposed to be used for making crude bombs.

However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
police are yet to recover the firearm and the bike that were used to kill Kunio.

The 65-year-old Kunio was killed by three unidentified cycle of violence-riding men in Kachu Alutari village on October 3.

Earlier, the police detained five suspects in the Kunio murder case including Rashidunnabi Khan Biplob, the younger brother of BNP leader Habib Un Nabi Sohel, and the victim's business partner Humayun Kabir Hira.

At the time, law enforcers also claimed that all three of Kunio's attackers have been arrested.

But yesterday, the police did not say whether the latest arrest had any links with the previous detainments.
Posted by: Fred 2015-12-09
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