[AnNahar] Singapore said Tuesday it had placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! eight Bangladeshi men who allegedly plotted to carry out terror attacks and liquidations in their home country to establish an Islamic state.
The migrant workers were arrested in April under Singapore's Internal Security Act which allows for detention without trial, the home ministry said in a statement.
Items seized from them included manuals on bomb-making and how to use a 0.50 caliber sniper rifle, plus a list of Bangladesh government and military officials targeted for attack, it said.
The ministry said the men were members of a clandestine group set up in Singapore in March by 31 year-old Rahman Mizanur, who called the group "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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Bangladesh"(ISB).
They had initially planned to go to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group but decided to return to their homeland.
"As they felt that it would be difficult for them to make their way to Syria, they focused their plans instead on returning to Bangladesh to overthrow the democratically-elected government through the use of force, establish an Islamic State in Bangladesh and bring it under (Islamic State's) self-declared caliphate," the ministry said.
It added that five other Bangladeshi men had been investigated but not found to be involved in ISB. They nevertheless possessed jihadi-related material and been repatriated to Bangladesh, the statement said.
Bangladesh police said they arrested five suspected Islamist snuffies on Tuesday who had been deported from Singapore, after being alerted to their alleged krazed killer activities by authorities in the city-state.
There is growing concern over an increase in attacks on minorities in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Suspected Islamists have murdered at least 30 members of religious minorities, secular bloggers and other liberal activists, foreigners and intellectuals in the country in the past three years.
Two gay activists were hacked to death last week in attacks claimed by a Bangladeshi branch of Al-Qaeda, while a liberal English professor was killed days earlier, a murder claimed by the IS group.
Bangladesh police also said Tuesday they were investigating a new hit-list from a group called the Islami Liberation Front, which includes the head of a university, journalists and ruling party officials.
Singapore is heavily dependent on foreign labor and employs 1.15 million overseas workers out of a total population of 5.6 million.
Officials say the nation -- a close military partner of Washington -- is a prime target for Islamic hard boys.
Singapore says it foiled an attempt by snuffies in late 2001 to carry out kabooms on US and other foreign targets in the country.
According to the home ministry, the ISB group planned to recruit more Bangladeshi workers in Singapore and raised money to buy weapons for use in Bangladesh. The money has been seized, the ministry said.
The group's leader also told Sherlocks that he would carry out attacks anywhere in the world if instructed to do so by IS, but the ministry said there were no specific indications Singapore was a target.
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[IANS] Abu Sayyaf released a video on Wednesday threatening to behead three more hostages, who were kidnapped along with John Ridsdel, who was killed on April 25. On the video, the masked militant said in English, "The lesson is clear. John Ridsdel has been beheaded. Now there are three remaining captives here. If you procrastinate once again on the negotiations, we will behead this all anytime."
Meanwhile, the three hostages, who were abducted by the rebels along with Ridsdel on September 21, 2015, also made pleas to Canada and Philippines.
Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad said, "I'm appealing to the Canadian government, the Filipino government, friends, family, anybody who can possibly help us, that if the demand is not met we will be executed like our friend John was a few days ago."
In the video, Canadian Robert Hall also urged Philippine security forces, which launched an offensive against Abu Sayyaf after Ridsdel's killing, to stop shooting for fear they might be killed in the attacks. He said, "To the Canadian government, I’m told to tell you to meet the demand. I don’t know what you’re doing, but you’re not doing anything for us. John has been sacrificed, his family has been decimated, and I’m not sure why or what you’re waiting for."
Speaking for the first time, the Filipina, Marita Flores asks Philippine President Aquino and several other presidential candidates and renowned personalities, including the boxer Manny Pacquiao, to help them.
Abu Sayyaf had demanded ransom of around $6.4 million for each of the three Western hostages before April 25 and a few hours after the expiration of the deadline, the group beheaded Ridsdel and left his severed head in a bag in Jolo town in Sulu province.
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[Inquirer] Maoist militants released three Philippine soldiers and a militiaman from captivity and turned them over to Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and other city officials in a ceremony in a remote village of San Luis, Agusan del Sur on Tuesday.
Two of the government troopers, Pfc. Diven Tawide and Pfc. Glenn Austria were separately taken at road checkpoints set by the New People’s Army in San Luis and Talacugon on April 3.
The decision to also free Cpl. Jawad Awadi and militiaman Roy Perez was reached at the last minute during the handover program, according to NPA official Ka Omar Ibarra. They were caught in civilian clothes earlier that morning by the militants who were securing the vicinity of the venue in Barangay Balit.
Ibarra blasted the Philippine military for not presenting to the public one of its NPA leaders, identified as Ricardo Manili, alias Ka Joker, and six other civilians who were seized at a military checkpoint in Esperanza. Ka Joker, who was supposed to lead the turnover ceremony, was arrested in the area still covered by the agreement on suspension of military operation to pave the way for the smooth release of the NPA "prisoners of war," Ibarra said.
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[The Nation] Two spontaneous bomb attacks near a market in Yala province yesterday morning slightly injured four civilians in what police think was an attempt by militants to create chaos in the region. The double blasts took place ten minutes apart from each other; left three women and a boy wounded; and damaged a grocery shop, a pickup truck and a motorcycle.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan yesterday dismissed rumors that an unofficial meeting between Thai negotiators and MARA Patani representatives in Kuala Lumpur had failed to make any progress. It was reported that the Thai government wanted to set up cease-fire zones while MARA Patani wanted to ink written documents before further talks. Prawit said there was no disagreement and expressed confidence that the peace talks would continue uninterrupted.
MARA Patani is a forum of six long-standing insurgent groups who claim to represent Malay Muslims living in the far South.
Meanwhile, the body of slain marine Jittapol Renu na Ayutthaya was flown to Sattahip Naval Base after a ceremony yesterday in Narathiwat's province. His body would be returned to his hometown later.
Jittapol, a nephew of Narathiwat Special Task Force deputy chief Colonel Worachit Satsilpa, was killed when a roadside bomb went off in Tak Bai district on Monday night. He was leading an eight-man patrol when a villager alerted them about suspects drilling something. When they went to inspect the site, a hidden bomb went off, causing fatal injuries.
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[Inquirer] Maoist militants released three Philippine soldiers and a militiaman from captivity and turned them over to Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and other city officials in a ceremony in a remote village of San Luis, Agusan del Sur on Tuesday.
