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Bangladesh
Shibir plans subversive activities
2010-07-25
[Bangla Daily Star] Detectives questioning detained Islami Chhatra Shibir activists claim cadres of the group are gathering in the capital with explosives and firearms to carry out subversive activities in revenge for the recent arrests of Jamaat high-ups.
They're flocking to the city.
ADC Mohammad Moniruzzaman of Detective Branch yesterday told The Daily Star they arrested several Shibir activists in the last few days who revealed that some central leaders of Jamaat and Shibir are hatching the plot.
Brooding in their hidden nests.
The detective however declined to reveal the names of the central leaders for the sake of investigation.

He said they recovered a foreign pistol from a Shibir office-come-mess at South Sayedabad in the capital and arrested Faridul Huda, finance secretary of Dhaka city unit of Shibir.
He's clearly a bad egg.
Moniruzzaman added they made the recovery and arrest following information gleaned from Shibir cadre Abdulla Omar Nasir alias Shahadat Hossain, who was arrested in Rajshahi University area on July 23.

Earlier, the detectives arrested Shibir leader Mia Mujahid, brother of Jamaat lawmaker Mia Golam Sarwar, Shakhawat, managing director of Beacon Group and former president of Feni district unit, his employee Shakil, and Masum, nephew of Jamaat Aamir Ataur Rahman of Rajshahi city unit, over the last one year.

Huda and Shahadat were produced before a Dhaka Court with a ten-day remand prayer for each, while the others were remanded on different terms.

ADC Monir also said acting on the arrestees' information, law enforces apprehended around 12 more Shibir cadres and leaders in Chittagong, Rajshahi and Khulna who were taking preparations to carry out simultaneous attacks in the cities.

Masum is not a Shibir member as he is not a student. But he used to lead armed attacks carried out by Shibir men and was asked to lead a certain team in the capital, the DB official claimed.
Another bad egg.
More like 'consultant'.
The official said Shibir cadres were coming mostly from Rajshahi, Bogra, Khulna, Thakurgaon and Chittagong.

Investigators say Shibir men gathering from different parts of the country are taking shelter at different Shibir-controlled messes and offices in the capital following arrests of Jamaat trio Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Delwar Hossain Saydee.
Incubating more nefarious plots, no doubt.
DB officials say the arrestees told them around seven names of Shibir cadres who are tasked with collecting explosives.

They, quoting the arrestees, add some central leaders of Jamaat and Shibir are coordinating the entire process of collecting arms and explosives.

The Jamaat and Shibir leaders, who are involved in the process, did not inform the cadres when and where the attack will be launched, they add.

Speaking anonymously, a mid-ranked DB official said several teams of detectives are out to arrest the cadres and leaders assigned to carry out subversive activities. But following the arrests made over the last few weeks, the operatives and leaders have shifted their shelters, he added.
They scrambled for safety.
The arrestees said the Jamaat and Shibir leaders adopted such strategies so that they can escape arrest.

Beacon Group Managing Director Shakhawat used to give financial aid for plotting, claim the interrogators.
Posted by:Fred

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