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Bangladesh
Jubo League cadre killed in 'gunfight'
2014-02-11
[Bangla Daily Star] A Jubo League
... the youth wing of the Bangla Awami League...
 man was killed in a "shootout" between his cohorts and members of Rapid Action Battalion in Barisal city yesterday.

The dead, Faruq Ahmed alias Panama Faruq, 46, was son of Yaqub Ali Mia of Bazar Road area.
A four namer, the son of a three namer? Call the IRS, these people are rich!
He was a listed criminal and accused in over one dozen systems cases for murder, extortion, grabbing public and private properties and other criminal activities, said Sakhawat Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station.
Can even a mother love a man like that?
Nizamul Islam Nizam, convener of Barisal city Jubo League, said Faruq was an active member of the unit but did not hold any post.
They got a vacancy now, too...
Rab-8 sources said a patrol team in Chawak Bazar area tried to intercept a group of people around 6:30am, seeing their suspicious movement.
Cheez, that was right around shift change. No wonder the RAB didn't just pinch Faruq for a subsequent cross-fire...
Instead of halting, the people started firing, triggering a shootout with the Rab members, the sources added.
Lots of aimless fire except for the round that caught Faruq, which was carefully aimed indeed...
Faruq was caught in the line of fire at one stage and was struck down in his prime, said Lt Colonel Gulzar, in charge of media wing at Rab-8.

Others managed to flee the scene.
... as though they had never been...
Several firearms including two pistols and a pipe gun, bullets, and three sharp weapons were recovered from the spot, Gulzar added.
No shutter gun for Faruq...
The body was sent to Barisal Medical College and Hospital
...not a level I trauma center, not that Faruq needed that...
for his appointment with Doctor Quincy.

Police said Faruq was sent to jail after he surrendered before a court in 2009.

After release from jail, he started grabbing public and private properties in the city's commercial areas, police mentioned.
Clearly he wanted to go back. Some people are like that.
However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
 Faruq's father demanded justice against the "killing" of his son without trial.

Faruq was known as "Panama Faruq" for his family business titled Panama Traders.
Is that like Banana Republic?
He and his younger brother Mahbubur Rahman Chhokku formed a gang named Panama Bahini around 1998, creating a reign of terror in the city under the banner of Jubo League.
So the family business wasn't clothing...
The gang attacked Barisal Press Club in 1999.

The duo went into hiding after the BNP-led alliance government came to power in 2001.
So they were AL bully boys...
Faruq returned to the city from his lair hideout after the AL-led government assumed power in 2008 and got bail from the court in most of his cases.

He was defeated as a councillor candidate in last Barisal City Corporation election.
And he's not running again!
Posted by:Fred

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