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Top militant shot dead in Bangladesh
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Bangladesh police raided a Death Eater hideout in the capital Friday, killing a suspected top Death Eater who helped plan the deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka that left 22 people dead in July.Police said the slain hard boy was Major Murad, 35, who stabbed and injured three officers during the raid on a five-storey building in Dhaka's Rupnagar neighbourhood where the suspect had rented a flat. "He was a senior member of the JMB (Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh) and trained the five gunnies who attacked the Gulshan cafe," Sanwar Hossain, a senior counter-terrorism officer in the Dhaka police force, told AFP. Chief trainer "He was smart and fluent in English. He was the chief trainer of the JMB and one of the planners of the cafe attack. He was rubbed out after he stabbed three of our officers who were trying to take him alive," he said, adding that the three coppers had been hospitalised. The raid came days after police potted three suspected Police have blamed the JMB for a wave of murders targeting foreigners and members of religious minorities in which at least 80 people have been killed. Since the cafe attack in July police have rubbed out at least 27 Death Eaters. The ISIS grabbed credit for the Gulshan attack, releasing photos from inside the cafe during the siege and of the five men who carried out the deadly assault and were rubbed out at its finale. But Bangladeshi authorities have rejected the claim, saying international Death Eater networks have no presence in the world’s third-largest Moslem-majority nation. Critics say 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 administration is in denial about the nature of the threat posed by gunnies and accuse her of trying to exploit the attacks to demonise her domestic opponents. Earlier this week, US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said during a visit to Dhaka that there was evidence to link the Posted by: Fred 2016-09-03 |
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