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Musa told wife to blow herself up
[Bangla Daily Star] After police cordoned off the Ashkona myrmidon hideout early Saturday, Maynul Musa instructed his wife Trisha Moni to wear a boom jacket and blow up herself along with their four-month-old daughter instead of surrendering to law enforcers.Trisha, however, did not carry out the instruction as her motherly love for the baby stopped her from detonating the vest. So, she decided to surrender, according to her statement to an official of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the DMP during interrogation. Sensing that police encircled the den, Trisha communicated with her husband using an encrypted messaging app and wanted his advice about the next course of action. "Musa then asked his wife and all other women to wear the boom jackets and blow themselves up," the official said. Musa took the helm of radical group "Neo JMB" as most of its top leaders died in anti-terror operations following the July 1 Gulshan café attack. The other top leaders are either tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! or under police surveillance, officials say. The last time Musa visited the Ashkona flat on the ground floor of a three-storey building was on Tuesday when he brought bombs and grenades there. Two other forces of Evil who go by the name of Firoz and Selim in theorganization also used to visit the den. Replying to a query, the CTTC official said "Neo JMB" still has one expert bombmaker. Other bomb experts are dead or behind bars or on the run. A police source said a myrmidon, aged around 18, managed to escape from the flat just before the operation. Another woman, Jebunnahar Shila, widow of Major (retd) Jahid alias Murad, surrendered along with her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and with a 9mm pistol and six bullets during the anti-militant operation codenamed "Ripple 24". According to CTTC officials, Trisha has expressed remorse for being within myrmidon circle. But Shila has not. Also during the operation, a suspected myrmidon named Shakira detonated her boom jacket while rushing to police with her four-year-old daughter Sabina in an apparent motive to blow herself up in the midst of coppers. She was, however, still a few steps away from the law enforcers. Shakira was killed in the blast with part of her body badly damaged and Sabina suffered severe injuries. A police official was also maimed. "Analysing our intelligence and information from the forces of Evil who surrendered, it seems that the woman [Shakira] could carry out suicide kabooms with her daughter elsewhere [had she been alive]," CTTC unit chief Monirul Islam told news hounds at Ashkona yesterday evening as a search was going on in the den. Shakira first married Iqbal, father of Sabina. After Iqbal died from cancer, she married Suman. Suman, a suspected myrmidon, has been missing for over a month, the official added. Around 7:30pm yesterday, a police team left the spot with the body of deceased myrmidon suspect, 14-year-old Afif Kaderi, for Dhaka Medical College morgue. Morgue sources said the body reached there around 11:30pm. Afif, son of "Neo JMB" leader Tanvir Kaderi, who did away with himself during a raid at Azimpur on September 10, got killed around Saturday afternoon during the operation. Rejecting the call for surrender, Afif shot up police, and the law enforcers retaliated by firing shots and gas grenades. Officials say the boy did away with himself or died in the police firing. Monirul said the forces of Evil burnt Tk 12 lakh, a laptop, some mobile phones and documents. It seems that they were using the hideout as their office, he added. During the search starting at 10:30am yesterday, bomb disposal unit of the CTTC recovered seven grenades, two boom jackets -- one with six bombs and the other with four -- and two unwent kaboom!bombs from the vest that Shakira detonated. Two 9mm pistols with two live ammunition, and huge bomb-making materials were also found at the den. Officials later defused the grenades and bombs. Posted by: Fred 2016-12-29 |
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