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| Militants prefer buffers to save their leaders | |
| 2015-03-05 | |
[Dhaka Tribune] Detectives suspect that Islamist myrmidon organizations, especially the notorious Ansarullah Bangla Team, have been using "sleeper cells" or "cut outs" for killing missions, to keep their leaders from incriminating themselves.
During a mission, the foot soldiers communicate with the commander through special coded messages. Even if the killers get jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! , the law enforcers cannot glean information from them about the criminal mastermind since the arrestees have no idea about the top leaders, a high official of the police intelligence told the Dhaka Tribune requesting anonymity. "This way, the killers never know the names of the leaders," the official added. Ansarullah Bangla Team was the first myrmidon outfit to use buffers to insulate their top leadership from field operations, according to intelligence officials. Although ABT chief Jasim Uddin Rahmani is now in jail, other leaders of the fanatic group have been carrying out killings and attacks in full swing with support of some technologically-savvy members of the group, officials say. Ansarullah claimed responsibilities for the killing of blogger Rajeeb, Rajshahi University teacher Prof AKM Shariful Islam, Daffodil University student Ashraful Islam and latest victim blogger-science writer Avijit Roy. They made their claims through Twitter and Facebook accounts under Ansar Al Islam, Ansar Al Islam Bangladesh 2 and Ansar Bangla 7. Law enforcers suspect that US citizen Avijit and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonna were attacked by several sleeper cells, each having three to seven members, in TSC area of Dhaka University on February 26. | |
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