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| Lashkar organiser captured |
| 2010-04-09 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested a Pakistani national in the capital suspecting him to be an organiser in Bangladesh of Pakistan-based outlawed outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The arrestee, Mobashwer Shahid Mubin alias Yahia, 25, got involved with LeT in 1998 and came to Bangladesh in guise of a buying house businessman in 2006, Rab legal and media wing director Commander Mohammad Sohail told a press briefing yesterday. Sources say Yahia was first held by an intelligence agency from Shahjalal International Airport area in December 2008 on his way to Pakistan. Later on January 6 last year he was handed over to airport police and shown arrested in a currency counterfeit case. Before his arrest, Yahia was working for recruiting local youths for LeT and carrying funds for its activities in Bangladesh from Pakistan as assigned by the top Lashkar leaders, they add. The sources say apart from LeT, he used to look after the interest of different local and foreign militant organisations as an ISI agent. He used to reside in Uttara Sector 4. Hailing from Karachi, Yahia is skilled in using various types of firearms including AK47. "We are trying to determine how many people he recruited, his source of funding, network in Bangladesh and whether he maintained connection with other militant organisations in Bangladesh," Commander Sohail said replying to a query. Rab officials say they arrested Yahia in Chankharpool around 11:30pm on Wednesday with a laptop and a notebook. They add he came out of jail a couple of weeks ago on expiry of a four-month detention but was always under their surveillance. Speaking anonymously, a senior official of Dhaka Central Jail however said Rab arrested Yahia at the jail gate soon after he was released on bail. Yahia's seized passport reveals before his arrest he visited Pakistan 12 times and once he entered Bangladesh via Dubai. Earlier, Detective Branch of police arrested a number of top LeT leaders from India and Pakistan who were residing in Bangladesh. The detectives also arrested four suspected LeT operatives in Chittagong and Dhaka last year on charge of devising a plot to attack the Indian and US missions in Dhaka. |
| Posted by:Fred |