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Suspected Gulshan attack planner Rashed arrested in Natore
[Dhaka Tribune] Aslam Hossain Rashed alias Rashedul Islam alias Rash, suspected to be a coordinator and one of the key planners of the Gulshan attack, has been tossed in the calabooseBook 'im, Mahmoud! from NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... re. The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, Police headquarters, Bogra and NATOre police jointly conducted drives and arrested him from the Shingra Bus Stand area around 5am on Friday. Bogra Additional Superintendent of Police Arifur Rahman Mondol confirmed the matter. DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said Rashed was brought to Dhaka on Friday evening and he would be placed before the court for a remand prayer on Saturday. According to CTTC sources, Rashed was very close to Tamim Chowdhury, who criminal masterminded the Gulshan terror attack and was killed in a Narayanganj den. The sources claimed that Rashed was involved in the arms supply and planning of the attack, as well as in the reconnaissance of the attack location at the Holey Artisan Bakery. He left home in 2016. Locals of Kanchanpur village in Manda upazila of Naogaon district, where Rashed’s house was said to be located, said that he was known to them under the name Aslam Ali Mohon. They added that Rashed and his family had left the area around seven years ago, after his father Abdus Salam had been convicted in a cheque fraud case. Rashed’s paternal uncle Abul Kalam, who still lives in their village home, confirmed to the Dhaka Tribune that Rashed’s father had been absconding since he was sentenced to a year in prison by a Naogaon court for the cheque fraud case, while his family had moved to Rajshahi. Kalam added that locals had thought Rashed had died in crossfire with Rapid Action Battalion  (RAB) about two years ago, though the picture of the dear departed shown by RAB at the time did not match.He further said that Rashed had been known to be a good boy, and there had been no indication that he would become radicalised. Rashed completed his SSC at a local school in Kanchanpur and had been admitted for HSC at a college in Rajshahi. Manda Police Station Inspector (Investigation) Mahbub Alam said that Rashed had no previous history of crime according to their records, though his father is indeed listed as an absconding convict in a cheque fraud case. Rashed’s mother Nasima Khatoon refused to identify the arrested youth as her son until she saw him face to face or a photo. "My son is Aslam Ali Mohon, not Rashed," she said She added that her son had been missing from his rented mess in Rajshahi since early June, 2016. Posted by: Fred 2017-07-29 |
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