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Bangladesh Arrests 37 'Islamist Militants' in Crackdown
[An Nahar] Bangladesh police have placed in durance vileDrop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! 37 suspected Islamist holy warriors as part of a nationwide crackdown on jihadists, an official said Saturday, following a spate of murders of minorities and secular activists. Police officials said more than 1,000 people were detained after the anti-militant drive was launched across the Moslem-majority country on Friday, although that number included regular arrests. "In the last 24 hours, 37 Islamist holy warriors were arrested. They included 27 members of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)," A.K.M Shahidur Rahman, deputy police inspector general told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Police have also seized one weapon, explosives and ammunition from their possession," he added. Nine members of the JMB, a banned hard boy outfit, were arrested in Rajshahi, Shariful Islam, a police inspector in the northwestern district, told AFP. Suspected Islamists have carried out several attacks in Rajshahi in recent months, including the killing of a liberal professor in April. Police have blamed the JMB for most of the murders of minorities and secular activists in the last three years, which have seen nearly 50 people brutally killed. The murders have spiked in recent weeks, with a gruesome wave of killings that has spanned from the capital Dhaka to remote parts of the north and coastal south. On Friday, a Hindu monastery worker was hacked to death in the northwestern district of Pabna. Also this week, an elderly Hindu priest was found nearly decapitated in a rice field, a Christian grocer was hacked to death near a church and the wife of an anti-terrorism officer was stabbed and shot. Most of the latest attacks have been claimed either by the 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.... group or by a South Asian branch of al-Qaeda. Prime Minister  ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. 's government has, however, blamed homegrown Islamists for the attacks, rejecting claims of responsibility from the international jihadist groups. The JMB is one of the main domestic hard boy outfits suspected of the murders, with police shooting dead five members of the group since Tuesday. Posted by: Fred 2016-06-12 |
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