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| Two arrested in Bangladesh over ISIS recruitment: police |
| 2015-05-26 |
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Two members of a banned Bangladeshi radical group have been tossed in the clinkBook 'im, Mahmoud! for trying to recruit young Moslems to fight with ISIS, police said Monday. Aminul Islam Baig, 40, and Shakib bin Kamal, 30, were both arrested on Sunday night during raids at two addresses in Dhaka in which officers also recovered jihadi literature and computer equipment, police added. Dhaka police front man Jahangir Alam said both men were members of the banned Islamist bad boy outfit Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). "They are active members of JMB and admitted their connection with [ISIS]," Alam told AFP. During questioning, Baig and Kamal provided a list of 20 accomplices who had been helping them try and persuade young Moslems to join the thousands of foreigners already fighting alongside ISIS, which has declared a "caliphate" across vast parts of Syria and Iraq. "They have been trying to recruit people all over the country to fight with the ISIS forces of Evil in Syria and other countries of the Middle East," Alam added. Another police front man, Monirul Islam, told a news conference in Dhaka that Baig was the head of IT at a multinational company in Bangladesh, without naming the organization, while Kamal was a teacher at a renowned school. Islam said the pair would be produced before court soon, adding that police would "seek remand for further interrogation". |
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