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| Negligence behind JMB militants snatch |
| 2014-03-03 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Negligence of the jail authority and police had lead to the snatching of three Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) hard boy members, says the home ministry probe report. Home Secretary CQK Mustaq Ahmed told the Dhaka Tribune after receiving the report. The probe committee, formed by the home ministry soon after the snatching incident, submitted the report on Sunday evening. Members of banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh killed a policeman and snatched three of their top detained operatives from a prison van in Trishal of Mymensingh on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway on February 23. Rakib Hasan, one of those three JMB operatives, was recaptured from the bordering areas of Shafipur in Tangail district hours later of the snatching incident. Rakib was killed in a 'shootout' at Beltoil Ceramic area under Mirjapur upazila in Tangail on February 24. Police also detained three other suspected JMB men in connection with the rare prisoner snatching incident. |
| Posted by:Fred |