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| DB police aware of JMB regrouping in West Bengal |
| 2014-10-09 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Concerns have developed in both India and Bangladesh over the reported regrouping of banned Islamist outfit 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) mainly after two suspected Death Eaters of the group were killed on October 2 in a blast at a house in West Bengal's Bardhaman district. The 32-year-old prime suspect, Shamim Ahmed alias Shakil alias Nayem alias Afzal Gazi, was a Bangladeshi. The other deceased is Shovon Mondol alias Shawpan alias Subhan, 22. According to primary reports in Indian media, they were killed while making bombs. More chilling information came in the media lately which claims that the bombs were being made in the Indian territory to carry out subversive activities in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh authorities are yet to be informed "officially" by the Indian side about the latest development of the JMB operatives in West Bengal. But the Sherlocks here are closely monitoring the developments. JMB founder Shayakh Abdur Rahman in a statement in 2006 mentioned about the West Bengal chapter terming it to be their 65th unit. The Detective Branch (DB) of Police suspect that two convicted JMB men snatched from a prison van earlier this year were now staying in West Bengal. Quoting Indian intelligence, media says hailing from Dhaka, Shakil was a cadre of the JMB. He also had links with Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , al-Qaeda, al-Jihad, Student Islamic Movement in India and Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... Shakil crossed the border to enter India illegally in 2009 and took shelter in Metiaburuje of Kolkata first. He started campaigning about so-called Jihad there under the guise of cloth trading as he had managed an Indian voter ID card. Deceased Shovon hailed from Uttarpara Village of Purba Medinipur district. Another injured in the October 2 incident was Abdul Hakim, from Mohammadbazar of Birbhum. He is undergoing treatment at Bardhaman Medical College Hospital at death's door. From the spot, the Indian police recovered around 25 grenades, 10 hand bombs, and bomb making chemicals ‐ Ammonium Nitrate, Iron Oxide and Hydrogen peroxide in huge quantity. The police also placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! Shakil's wife Gulsana Bibi alias Rumi Bibi and Hakim's wife Alima Bibi soon after the incident. Owner of the house Hassan Chowdhury was also detained. Shakil, Shovon and Hakim reportedly rented the house three months back and the two women used to stay with them, according to reports published in Indian media. Interrogating the women, the Indian National Intelligence Agency claimed that the dear departed and the arrestees had been making bombs at the house to carry out destructive activities in Bangladesh. Indian newspaper Hindustan Times published reports saying that the suspected JMB men had sent to Bangladesh four consignments of bombs in the last three months through courier service. The carriers were Kawser and Rasiq, the detainees said during interrogation. |
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