A grenade exploded at Shaidingi shrine in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar on Sunday night badly damaging the structure of the shrine. No casualty, however, was reported while the roof of the shrine was blown up. Immediately after the explosion, locals captured a local Imam and a madrasa teacher on suspicion, and handed them over to police. | That makes sense to me, muslim holy men and explosives seem to go together |
| "Ooch! Ouch! Ouch! Ooch! We confess! We dunnit!" |
| Got all fired up at the Ashura program and had to boom something |
| "Madame? You have a son named Mahmoud?" "Yeah? Whut's it to yez? Whut's he done now?" "Come with us, please!" "[Gasp!] To the abandoned warehouse?" "No, to the cop shoppe." "Whew. Okay." |
| "And then we're going to the abandoned warehouse!" [gasp] "No! No! Anything but that!" |
Dhamrai militants busted
Twelve suspected extremists were arrested from Dhamrai, Jahangirnagar University (JU) and Joypurhat Sunday night. The six arrested from Dhamrai were found with bomb-making formulas, masks, wigs and important documents belonging to an extremist organisation, while JU authorities also found a timer and an audio tape containing a speech protesting attempts to arrest Osama bin Laden, Mufti Fazlul Haq Amini and Shaikhul Hadith Azizul Haque. Intelligence agencies, meantime, have mounted surveillance on a number of mosques in the north-western regions of the country in the wake of a recent wave of bomb attacks on various NGOs, including Brac and Grameen Bank. A patrol team of Dhamrai police challenged eight youths as they were walking by Joypura Jora bridge on the Dhaka-Aricha highway at 1:00am yesterday. Two of the youths ran away when they saw the police, and remaining six were arrested. It has been learned that four of the six Abdul Wahab, 26, Yakub Ali, 21, Faruq Hossain, 34, Rafiqul Islam, 18, Nurul Islam, 20, and Anwar Hossain, 23, -- are students of the area's Sharifabad Madrasa.
| Just good muslim schoolboys, out for a stroll at 1am. |
| "'Ere, now, lads! Wot's in the bags?" |
| Typical muslim school supplies, if you're a cross-dressing terrorist |
| Sounds like every episode of "COPS" where they pull over a car in a crack neighborhood: "What are you boys doing down here tonight?" "Visting a friends house." "Yeah, where's your friend live?" "Err, over there" "What's your friends name?" "Ah, err, ummmmm...." "OK, hands on the car..." |
| "Legume, I believe they were preparing to undertake an operation!" "Gosh, Inspector! How do you do it?" |
Three hard boyz arrested at Water Development Board mosque
Police arrested three activists of Jamaatul Mujahidin from the Water Development Board mosque in Thakurgaon on Thursday night. The arrestees are Amanat Ullah, Mamun ur Rashid and Mahbub Alam. Following the statement police raided the house of one Asiruddin, 50, of Laxmipur village in Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon and seized bomb making materials, acid, splinters, electrical wire, batteries, a dummy rifle made of bamboo and rod, some books and leaflets as well as a
| SEE: muslim school supplies |
100 hurt in clash over
At least 100 people including a woman were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers at Madir Haor of Ashurail village under Buresheyar union in Nasirnagar upazila over cutting grass from a disputed land on Friday. Aksir Mia of a group led by Md Karim member and Younus Mia of their rival group led by Farid Mia exchanged hot words following cutting of grass at the disputed land, according to eye-witnesses, hospital and police sources.
| "Hey, git yur hands off my grass!" |