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Bangladesh hostage-takers not ISIS-affiliated | |
2016-07-04 | |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The turbans who slaughtered 20 hostages at a Dhaka restaurant were members of a homegrown Bangladeshi bad boy outfit and not followers of ISIS, a senior minister said Sunday. "They are members of the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh," Minister of Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan told AFP, referring to a group which has been banned in Bangladesh for more than a decade. "They have no connections with ISIS."
Police have released the names and photos of six of the attackers who were shot at the end of the siege. A seventh was locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and is being interrogated by Bangladeshi intelligence officers. Khan said that all of the attackers were well-educated and most came from wealthy families. "They are all highly educated young men and went to university. No one is from a madrassa," the minister said. Asked why they would have become Islamist bad boys, Khan said: "It has become a fashion." | |
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