[Dhaka Tribune] The killing yesterday of Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury by law enforcement agencies has closed one chapter in Bangladesh's struggle with violent extremism. But will the vacuum caused by his death open another?Tamim had been identified as Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
’s operational leader in Bangladesh and was also known by the nom de guerre Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif. He was believed to have criminal masterminded the attacks this year on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka and Sholakia Eidgah in Kishoreganj.
Operation Hit Strong 27, a precision sting operation on a residential building in Narayanganj, left three suspected bully boyz including Tamim dead. He and his associates were killed after they rejected an opportunity to surrender.
The demise of the "shadowy Canadian leader of IS in Bangladesh", to use the words of Amarnath Amarasingam, a fellow at the George Washington University Program on Extremism, raises questions about the future of terrorism in Bangladesh.