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Crackdown after Hindu priest killed in Bangladesh
[DAWN] Bangladesh police on Tuesday launched a deadly crackdown on Islamist Two "high-ranking" members of the Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were rubbed out in a gunbattle with security personnel in Dhaka and another was killed in a north-western district, police said. The two JMB members killed in the capital had roles "in most of the recent attacks" including the bombing of a Shia mosque and the murder of a liberal professor, said deputy commissioner of police M.R Khaled. The third victim was killed in a shootout in the town of Godagari in the north-western district of Rajshahi, said local police chief Abu Forhad. The authorities have blamed homegrown Islamists for the recent attacks, rejecting claims of responsibility from the murderous Moslem Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group and a South Asia branch of Al Qaeda. IS grabbed credit for murder of the latest victim, Hindu priest Ananda Gopal Ganguly, whose head was nearly severed. The group, through its Amaq news agency, said it "assassinated" the priest, according to the SITE monitoring group, as he was walking to prayers. Farmers discovered Ganguly’s body in a rice field near his home in the village of Noldanga in the western district of Jhenidah. Posted by: Fred 2016-06-09 |
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