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| Photo of another Bangladeshi al-Qaeda member released online |
| 2017-05-10 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] According to al-Qaeda’s Bangla platform Dawahilallah, Abu Ibrahim alias Saiful Islam Hasan was killed in a US operation in Kandahar of Afghanistan in 2015 Al-Qaeda has published a photo of a Bangladeshi-origin leader who was killed while fighting for the bully boy group in Afghanistan. The youth was identified as Abu Ibrahim in a post published recently on al-Qaeda’s Bangla platform Dawahilallah by a senior member. According to the post, accessed early Tuesday, he was killed in a US operation in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2015. When asked by another user why the senior member, Abul Fida (organizational name), posted an old news in the forum, Fida said that he had learnt about the matter in a video released recently. It is assumed that Abu Ibrahim is the organizational name of Saiful Islam Hasan. His name first came up late last month when al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) released a statement announcing the death of Tariq alias Sohel, identified as the head of Bangladesh affairs. It also said that Sohel’s aides who had "embraced martyrdom" with him were Abu Ibrahim alias Saiful Islam Hasan, Qari Abdul Aziz alias Abdul Halim, Yaqub alias Saddam Hossain, Asadullah alias Nazimuddin Maimoon and Abu Bakr alias Anuj Hasib. Dhaka Tribune could not independently verify the identities. The law enforcers too have not been able to give details of the persons named in the statement. Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil told the Dhaka Tribune that he believed Sohel was the handler of Bangladeshi affairs in Afghanistan, not the Bangladesh chief of AQIS. Ashiqur Rahman Sulaiman was the first Bangladeshi to have been killed in Afghanistan fighting for al-Qaeda in recent years, he said. An al-Qaeda video from March 2015 described him as a martyr. "Sohel and his AQIS was formed in late 2014 with the declared intention of waging jihad in India, Pakistain, Bangladesh and Myanmar. It is headquartered in Pakistain. Since January 2013, the group has taken credit for 13 attacks in which 11 were killed and four others sustained critical injuries. The last operation killed two LGBT rights activists in Dhaka on April 25, 2016. |
| Posted by:Fred |