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RAB: Militants were planning to ship bombs on cargo vessels
[Dhaka Tribune] Three turbans including a close associate of Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury were tossed in the clinkDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! by RAB on Thursday night from Savar. Rapid Action Battalion  (RAB) found firearms and bomb-making materials in their possession and said they are members of a new faction of the banned myrmidon outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, New JMB’s Sarwar-Tamim group.The three men have been identified as Tamim Dwari alias Abdullah Al Hasan alias Azizur Rahman alias Abdullah Al Jafri alias Amir Hamza alias Al Huzaifa alias Sri Gowrango Kumar Mandol, 32,
RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan confirmed their arrest yesterday during a presser, saying: "Acting on a tip-off we searched a bus at Rajfulbaria bus stand coming from Paturia launch terminal where we apprehended the three members of Sarwar-Tamim group around 10pm on Thursday. "We found one foreign-made pistol, five rounds of bullets, 1.15kg of plastic explosives made with the help of a bomb expert, a lot of bomb-making materials, three folding knives, one machete, laptops and foreign currencies in their possession." RAB said the three came to Dhaka to carry out subversive activities. The close associate of Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, the criminal mastermind behind the Gulshan terror attack, is Tamim Dwari, a Hindu convert and a marine engineer, who was devising a plan to transport bomb-making materials and other weapons on shipping boats with Tamin Ahmed Chowdhury, said RAB. RAB also said they were recruiting trustworthy members of the group to help transport these bombs with fake passports and visas. Tamim and Tamim: Brothers in arms Tamim Dwari was radicalised sometime in 2003, according to RAB, after making friends with a man called Tanvir Kabir and attending the Tabligh Jamaat with him. After studying at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in 2005, he transferred to the Chittagong Marine Academy and finished his degree in 2007. In 2013, while working as a marine engineer on the fat merchantman Banglar Kakoli, Tamim Dwari found a former university friend Abu Baker on a voyage to Pakistain. Their conversations circled around global prosecution of Moslems and what they could do about that to which Abu Baker suggested jihad was the only way. In December 2013, Abu Bakar introduced Tamim Dwari to Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury as the man who had come from abroad to fight jihad in Bangladesh. RAB’s Mufti Mahmud said this initial meeting had a deep impact on Tamim Dwari who invited Tamim to visit him in Chittagong. In January 2014, they met at Patenga, Chittagong where Dwari showed Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury around the fat merchantman Banglar Doot where they discussed at length the ways in which they would transport bombs and bomb-making materials along with recruitments of trustworthy turbans and how they could acquire fake passports and visas for them. In mid-2014, they met again in Dhaka in a flat in Mirpur DOHS along with Mir Farhad, Ashraf, Himel, Abdullah, Abu Bakar and three other unknown turbans to plan myrmidon attacks across the country. RAB’s Mufti Mahmud said in July 2015 Tamim Dwari was admitted to the International Maritime Training Academy but dropped out and joined the general fat merchantman Bashundhara-4 in August 2016 to hide his deep involvement with militancy. In November 2016, he was most likely fired and he said to have left home for hizrat (leaving home for jihad) in January 2017. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-29 |
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