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| Bangladesh | |
| 2 JMB suspects held in Bandarban | |
| 2011-03-30 | |
| Police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) early Tuesday tossed in the clink two suspected members of Islamist turban outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Mohammedan Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually went kaboom!. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Soddy Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Soddy Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
The law enforcers also recovered bomb making materials, six mobile sets, two high frequency antennas and a large number of jihadi books from their possession. The suspected criminals are: Shamim Mahfuz, 40, and Mohammad Ismail, 36, reports our correspondent in Chittagong. Acting on a tip off, a joint team of BGB and Bandarban police conducted a raid at a house in Kolaipara village of Balipara union in the upazila and tossed in the clink them at about 2:00am. Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a meeting. It was to be their last... during police interrogation, Shamim claimed himself as a teacher of Open University and denied having any links with the outfit. Kamrul Hasan, Bandarban police superintendent, confirmed their arrest. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 That's two down, and only about another two million or so to go... |
| Posted by: American Delight 2011-03-30 10:48 |