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CU expels 3 students for alleged militant link
[Dhaka Tribune] The Chittagong University authorities yesterday suspended three students, who were juggedKeep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Sunday, for their alleged involvement with banned holy warrior outfit 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). The trio, all students of physics department, are Naimur Rahman alias Noyon of final year, and Md Shawkat Rasel and Faisal Mahmud of Masters, said Registrar Prof Dr Kamrul Huda. "They will get back their studentship if they can prove their innocence," he added. CU sources said Naimur's final exam started on Sunday while Faisal was likely to peruse his thesis on Quantum Field Theory. Earlier, members of the Detective Branch of police arrested the trio from the different parts of the port city. Based on the information they gave, the detectives later recovered a sophisticated sniper rifle, ammunition, Bangladesh Army's uniforms and huge amount of bomb-making materials from a flat in Amanbazar area. The trio confessed that they had been active associates of JMB chief in Chittagong Fardin alias Noman, police said after initial interrogation. DB's Deputy Commissioner (port-west) Md Moktar Hossen told the Dhaka Tribune that the accused had been interrogated by a 10-member team formed by the Chittagong Metropolitan Police on Sunday. They were placed on a five-day remand in a case that filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act in connection with the recovery of firearms and bombs from the city's Khawajnagar area under Karnaphuli cop shoppe on October 6. Two cases were also filed with Hathazari police following the recovery while police have sought 20-day remand in the cases. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-30 |
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