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| 12 militants arrested in Chittagong |
| 2015-02-21 |
[Dhaka Tribune] Twelve suspected gunnies -- who the RAB described as "digital bully boys" - were placed in durance vileKeep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Thursday from Chittagong's Hathazari, where they were receiving bully boy training at a coaching centre. Aged between 18 and 25, the arrestees all possessed multimedia mobile phones and micro-SD memory cards which contained audio-visual clips from different international and domestic bully boy outfits. When a RAB 7 team made the arrests, three alleged trainers were tutoring nine bully boy apprentices in an establishment that posed as an Arabic literature and language coaching centre. The RAB termed the men "digital bully boys," and claimed that the detainees were set to complete a 45-day audio-visual militancy training before being shifted to a different site for arms training. Lt Col Mifta Uddin, commanding officer of RAB 7, said the team acted on a tip-off and carried out a two-and-a-half-hour raid to initially detain 25 people from Al Madrasatul Abu Bakar, situated on the third floor of SK Safina Bhaban at the upazila's Alipur Area. "Later, we found 12 of the detainees were connected to bully boy activities through digital ways. They were handed over to Hathazari cop shoppe and a case was lodged in this regard," he said. Lt Col Mifta added that the bully boys' internal communications were being run using social media -- mainly via Facebook. "However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the law enforcers are trying to find out their links with other bully boy organizations and their secret activities as their operations seem dangerous for national security," he said. The RAB would now recommend the police to interrogate the accused under the Taskforce for Interrogation (TFI) Cell in order to seek out the criminal masterminds behind the entire operation, Lt Col Mifta added. Sources inside the elite force told the Dhaka Tribune that mobile phones, computers, tablet computers and other electronic tools were also seized during the raid. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... details about inter-communication among The madrasa-like coaching centre was run by Mohammad Fattah -- who is currently on the run. The elite force were conducing drives to arrest Fattah and his other cohorts, the RAB 7 commanding officer told a presser at the force's headquarters in the port city yesterday. RAB 7 Chandgaon Camp Commander Major Jahangir Alam said: "The trainers used to brainwash the students by presenting them video clips of training and operational activities of international bully boy groups -- ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... , Hezbollah, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and some others -- and domestic bully boy group like Ansarullah Bangla Team and others." The trainees were also taught the ways of Jihad through presentations about examples of discrimination and torture against Moslem communities across the world, Major Jahangir added. Those arrested during Thursday's raid are: Abdur Rahman Ibn Asadullah, 23; Osman Gani, 20; Mostakim Billah Mashrur, 21; Nabil Hossain, 19; Sirajul Mostafa Solaiman, 19; Shamim Hossain Ismail, 18; Mahmudul Hasan, 22; Mohammad Yusuf, 23; Shafiqul Islam Shiekh Salauddin, 19; Rafiqul Islam Jubaer, 19; Abdul Kaiyum Sheikh Mansur Islam, 18; and Harunur Rashid, 19. |
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