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Another JMB man arrested
[Dhaka Tribune] Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) in a drive incarceratedDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! another suspected member of banned bad boy 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) from Noakhali early yesterday. Md Nurunabi Raju, 30, was arrested in case filed with Sadarghat cop shoppe over a mugging incident that place on September 23 last year, said Sub-Inspector of DB Sontosh Chakma. DB's Deputy Commissioner Kusum Dewan said: "Acting on a tip-off, a team of DB arrested Raju from Sultanpur area, Begumganj upazila around 3am." Raju is an active member of the JMB who had taken part in the mugging operation. After the snatching, he took shelter at his father-in-law's house in Noakhali, the DC said. During preliminary interrogation, Raju admitted his involvement with Sadarghat mugging incident and told other associates' name to the police, added SI Sontosh. On September 23, 2015, a team of JMB activists blasted several grenades while mugging a local businessman named Satya Gopal in Majirghat area of Sadarghat that left two JMB men killed. During investigation of the kaboom, police found JMB's involvement and arrested five JMB members, including Towfiqul Islam Javed, 22, head of the outfit's explosive wing in Chittagong, in the city's Khoyajnagar area on October 5, last year. Police also found nine handmade grenades, ammunition and a massive amount of explosives in his possession. A team of Detective Branch took Javed to Oxygen area to arrest his cohorts. Then, Javed was killed in a grenade kaboom. The rest of the arrested activists confessed during initial interrogation that eight of JMB members had conducted the mugging in Sadarghat area, where they snatched Tk5.40 lakh away from Satya Gopal, manager at Shah Corporation, and left him critically injured, who later died. During the mugging operation, they blasted grenade in a bid to show their strength, but ended up accidentally killing their two fellow snuffies -- Rabiul and Rafiq -- on the spot, they said. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-12 |
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