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Bangladesh
8 top JMB militants indicted for murder of judges
2006-04-24
Apr 23: Top eight militants, including JMB chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman, second-in-command Bangla Bhai, Ataur Rahman Sunny and Abdul Awal, were today (Sunday) indicted for the killing of two judges here in a bomb attack last November.

As Additional District and Sessions Judge Reza Tarique Ahmed asked Shaikh Rahman about his involvement in the killings, he quipped, "The two judges were killed in the district as per instructions of Allah."
Wonder what the sentencing judge will say on your death sentence?
The supreme leader of the banned Islamic outfit—caged in custody along with most members of his family and his top-order lieutenants, vowed to carry on their mission of dismantling the manmade judicial system if they survived. "If we remain alive, killing security forces, judges, lawyers and people who are seeking judgement under the existing law will be continued until establishing Islamic law," said Shaikh Rahman.
Sounds like a confession.
He told the court that they had tried to forewarn the judges against executing the manmade law through distributing leaflets across the country and serial bombings on August 17, 2005. "But they didnÂ’t go to Imams to know about the Islamic law. And thatÂ’s why they were killed."
Sounds like more of a confession.
The four other JMB men charged are suicide-squad member Iftekhar Hasan Al Mamun, Khaled Saifullah alias Amjad, Asadul Islam Arif and Sultan Hossain Khan of Krisnakati of Jhalakati. The last one is accused of helping the JMB militants rent a house in this southern coastal district. Khaled Saifullah alias Amjad, one of the seven members of Majlish-e-Shura, JMBÂ’s policymaking body, and Asadul Islam Arif are on the run.

The charge was framed when the eight were produced before the court today (Sunday) morning amid tight security. A total of 175 police and over 100 RAB members were deployed on the court premises. Shaikh Abdur Rahman, Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai and Ataur Rahman Sunny were brought to the court from Dhaka under RAB protection today while the rest were brought and kept in the district jail on Saturday for producing them before the court.

The court fixed April 26 for next hearings in the judgesÂ’ murder case. Depositions will start from the same date. Ataur Rahman Sunny, Abdul Awal and Iftekhar Hasan Al Mamun admitted to having been involved in the incident, but Bangla Bhai and Sultan Hossain Khan pleaded not guilty.

Senior Assistant Judges Sohel Ahmed and Jagannath Pandey were killed when JMB suicide bomber Iftekhar Hasan Al Mamun allegedly set off a powerful bomb on their vehicle on November 14 last year.
Posted by:Steve White

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