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| Schoolboy arrested for arms dealing (RAB, but no Crossfire) |
| 2008-07-21 |
| BANGLADESH security forces have arrested a schoolboy and seized illegal weapons and ammunition they say he was supplying to terror groups, officials said today. "Our forces arrested Pantha Hossain Dipu, 18, from Mirpur area in the capital Dhaka, late on Sunday," said Lieutenant-Colonel Ahmed Tabrej Shams Chowdhury, a director of Rapid Action Battalion Force said. During questioning, the O-level student, confessed he was the leader of a gang which supplied weapons commercially to terror groups, Lt-Col Ahmed said. The Colonel quoted Dipu as saying he had been in the arms business for three years and earned around 75,000 taka (around $1024) a month renting out weapons. Police seized three revolvers, a pistol, 60 rounds of ammunition, a knife and cartridge cases. The RAB, comprising members of the army, police, paramilitary troops and auxiliary forces, is leading a crackdown against corruption, smuggling, illegal weapons and terrorism by Islamist and other militant groups. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #5 "No Crossfire," Part of the newer, kindler, gentler RAB. Look for Schoolboy Dipshit to be featured in an upcoming Crossfire..... |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-07-21 13:49 |
| #4 Has to be the answer for citizens of D.C. 'Dipu's Weapons Leasing' why struggle with ownership when you can RENT! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-07-21 10:56 |
| #3 Bangladeshi Junior Achievement... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-21 10:50 |
| #2 If you rent out a weapon and the renter declines to return it, what do you do? He must have had some kind of muscle on call. Not just selling feelthy pictures on the playground, this is. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2008-07-21 07:55 |
| #1 At eighteen, young Master Dipu is no longer a boy. Given that he'd achieved the profession of arms dealing several years previous, clearly he'd also moved up to the adult status of Mister. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-07-21 06:50 |