[Bangla Daily Star] One more prosecution witness yesterday testified before a Dhaka court that HuJIFounded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west.
leader Moulana Tajuddin used to visit the residence of his brother Abdus Salam Pintu, former deputy minister of the immediate past BNP government.
Earlier, on Sunday, another prosecution witness gave an identical statement before the same court.
Both Pintu and Tajuddin are accused in the August 21 grenade attack cases.
Pintu was tossed in the calaboose
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
earlier and he is now in jail custody, while Tajuddin is a runaway accused in the cases.
In his deposition before the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 yesterday, Constable Al Mamun said he was deployed at Pintu's Dhanmondi government residence as a security guard form July 23, 2002 to July 6, 2004.
Tajuddin used to visit Pintu's residence with some of his accomplices, Mamun said.
"We did not obstruct him (Tajuddin) from visiting the residence as Pintu did not give any direction to us in this regard," Mamun added.
The witness further said from newspapers, television and people he later came to know that Tajuddin along with Harkatul Jihad al Islami leader chief Mufti Abdul Mannan were involved in Death Eater activities.
Mamun was later cross-examined by the lawyers of 28 accused. Cross-examination of the witness will be continued till August 18.
A grenade attack was carried out on August 21, 2004 when the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
, now prime minister, was addressing a party rally at the Bangabandhu Avenue.
Hasina narrowly escaped death ending up with an ear injury. But 24 leaders and activists of her party were killed, including late President Zillur Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman, and 300 others injured.