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MK-11 sniper rifle found at JMB den
[Dhaka Tribune] Detectives seized a state-of-the-art sniper rifle and army uniforms and badges among other things by busting a JMB den in Chittagong's Hathazari upazila yesterday.The drive was conducted on the basis of information given by three Chittagong University students -- all from the physics department -- incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in different parts of the port city a day before. Police are saying that this is the first time they had recovered an MK-11 sniper rifle from Lions of Islam in country. It is a powerful semiautomatic American made sniper rifle used by the US Navy that can destroy any target within a 1,500-yard radius.
The arrestees -- all members of the outlawed holy warrior organization 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. (JMB) -- are Naimur Rahman alias Nayon, 25, Faisal Mahmud, 26, and Md Sawkat Rasel, 26, said sources from the Detective Branch (DB) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP). This comes just three days after police in Dhaka busted a major explosives workshop set up by JMB Lions of Islam in an apartment in Mirpur. Page 4 column 4 MK-11 sniper rifle Babul Akhtar, additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Chittagong DB, told the Dhaka Tribune: "DB raided the house of one Ishaq in the Jaynab Colony area [in Hathazari] at midnight and conducted the drive until 5am to recover the arms and ammunition." The three Lions of Islam had been arrested on information given by JMB men in jug. Naimur and Rasel were nabbed from the city's Panchlaish area and Faisal from Nalapara on Saturday. He also said Fardin, chief of JMB's Chittagong chapter, rented the three-room house on the ground floor of a building in the Jaynab Colony of Hathazari some months ago. Fardin introduced himself as Nafis, a businessmen, and said he would live there with his wife and a child. The house was being used as an armoury for JMB and the place for coordinating the root-level activities of the outfit. Chittagong DB Sub-Inspector (SI) Sontosh Chakma told the Dhaka Tribune: "Fardin alias Noman is also a student of physics at Chittagong University. The three members arrested on Saturday got involved with the holy warrior organization on Fardin's encouragement." The SI also said: "Fardin maintained contact with JMB through Facebook, e-mail and other Internet platforms." A diary that detectives recovered during yesterday's drive says that Fardin got his "training" from the JMB in 2010. On October 5, police busted another JMB den in the port city's Khoaj Nagar area and arrested five JMB Lions of Islam and seized nine handmade grenades, a foreign-made pistol, and 120 bullets. On the following day, one of the Lions of Islam was killed in a grenade kaboom when detectives took him to conduct another drive in the city's Oxygen area. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-28 |
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