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Bangladesh
Bangladesh hostage-takers not ISIS-affiliated
2016-07-04
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The turbans who slaughtered 20 hostages at a Dhaka restaurant were members of a homegrown Bangladeshi bad boy outfit and not followers of ISIS, a senior minister said Sunday.

"They are members of the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh," Minister of Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan told AFP, referring to a group which has been banned in Bangladesh for more than a decade.

"They have no connections with ISIS."
All they have to do is pledge allegiance, and they're in as the local franchise. It's not like the old days, when a cadre had to be sent to the home office for vetting and training and secret passwords; now it's all making a bomb in the kitchen of your mother, as described in the last issue but one of the online magazine.
ISIS has grabbed credit for the killing of the hostages and two coppers during an 11-hour siege that ended on Saturday but the government has consistently denied that international Lion of Islam groups are operating in Bangladesh.

Police have released the names and photos of six of the attackers who were shot at the end of the siege. A seventh was locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
 and is being interrogated by Bangladeshi intelligence officers.

Khan said that all of the attackers were well-educated and most came from wealthy families.

"They are all highly educated young men and went to university. No one is from a madrassa," the minister said.

Asked why they would have become Islamist bad boys, Khan said: "It has become a fashion."
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