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Mahtab Khamaru, a key leader of outlawed myrmidon group JMB, from Talgharia village in Bagmara upazila here.
Khamaru, 45, was a regional commander and the second-in-command of 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 Moslem 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, Saudi 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, Saudi 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.
(JMB) in 2004, when its leader Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai was operating in the region, said a release of Rab.
He was also a close aide to Bangla Bhai, who was executed in March 2007 in the two judges' murder case in Jhalakathi.
Acting on intelligence information, members of the elite force picked him up from his home around 3:50am. He had been on the run for a long time, said ASP Mirza Golam Sarwar, chief of Rab's anti-militancy cell.
Khamaru was sent to jail through a court after Rab members handed him over to Bagmara Police Station for legal action.
A few weeks ago, a Rajshahi court had issued arrest warrants against him and several others in connection with a case filed by Amir Ali of Madhya Jhina area of the upazila on August 17 in 2009.
According to the case statement, Khamaru and his associates kidnapped Amir from his house in 2004 and tortured him for extortion.
The arrestee is also accused in five other cases of extortion and torture, said the release.