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AQIS statement confirms top Bangaldeshi jihadist’s death
The leadership structure of Ansar al-Islam, al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent’s local proxy, remains hazy as AQIS Wednesday claimed its Bangladesh unit chief died in a suicide operation in Afghanistan. The Bangladesh-born jihadist, identified as Tariq alias Sohel, was killed in a battle in Kandahar, according to a statement issued by AQIS chief Asim Umar ...chief of al-Qaeda's Sharia Committee for Pakistain, named head of al-Qaeda in India. His video appearances are frequently accompanied by clips of al Qaeda's senior propagandist in Pakistan, Ahmad Farooq. Umar the author of The Army of Anti-Christ: Blackwater, Documentation of the Dreadful Terrorist Activities of America's Blackwater in Islamic Countries... The original audio message titled "Verily, the help of Allah is near" was released in different formats on Telegram early Wednesday. It does not mention the date of the incident when Sohel carried out the suicide kaboom. "Our beloved brother who made hijrah to Wazoo, after bidding farewell to the sparkles of Dhaka, Tariq Bhai (Sohel), head of Bangladesh Affairs, passed away irrigating the desert of Qandahar [Kandahar] in hopes that the spring of Islamic system [of governance] shall come back to the land of Bangladesh," Asim Umar said. Al-Qaeda supremo Ayman al-  Zawahiri... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit.Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... issued a separate statement Tuesday. Sohel’s aides who had "embraced martyrdom" with him were Qari Abdul Aziz alias Abdul Halim, Yaqub alias Saddam Hossain, Asadullah alias Nazimuddin Maimoon, Abu Ibrahim alias Saiful Islam Hasan and Abu Bakr alias Anuj Hasib, the statement said. The Dhaka Tribune could not independently verify their identities. News of Sohel’s death was first aired in a video released by al-Qaeda’s As-Sahab Media last month, as mentioned by Ansar al-Islam members in the Dawahilallah online forum. Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil told the Dhaka Tribune he believed Sohel was the handler of Bangladeshi affairs in Afghanistan, not the Bangladesh chief of AQIS. He said it was likely that the others killed during the same operation were also Bangladeshis. Ashiqur Rahman Sulaiman, who also supported Hefajat-e-Islam ...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home... , was the first Bangladeshi to have been killed in Afghanistan fighting for al-Qaeda in recent years. An al-Qaeda video from March 2015 described him as a martyr. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-27 |
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