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Bangladesh
RAB: how explosives enter B'Desh
2005-12-18
According to the intelligence agencies, most of the sensitive bomb making explosives like Water Gel, Power Gel and Ammonium Nitrate recovered by members of the well-equipped Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from the JMB hideouts were mostly brought into the country from India through organised gang of smugglers.
Smugglers, eh? Shifty types in it for the money, or pious types in it for a reward from Allan?
Northern Chapainawabganj border and eastern hilly Bandarban, Khagrachhari and Rangamati bordering areas the main routes of smuggling high- powered explosives and other bomb making materials into the country. “The highly sensitive arms and explosives are being smuggled into the country through different organised gang of smugglers some of whom have link with international terrorist outfits,” intelligence sources said.

Chittagong regional commander of outlawed JMB outfit Javed Iqbal and Ataur Rahman Sunny, commander of its military wing already confessed to the investigators that the recently recovered deadly high-powered explosives and other bomb-making materials were collected from India through some unknown sources.

Not only that sometimes they got training for using guns and making bombs. On the other hand, the security personnel recovered huge cache of sophisticated arms and ammunition like shutter guns, AK-47, AK-56, M-16, AK-25 assault rifles, grenades, rocket launchers, plastic explosives and mortars with shells from the dens of insurgency outfits and terrorists groups in the hilly districts of Bandarban, Khagrachhari and Rangamati. Most of the recovered arms and rounds of bullet ammunition were made in China. And the consignment of such arms and ammunition were brought inside the country from Myanmar with the help of international arms syndicate, sources said.
And now today's bomb recovery report:
Police recovered huge quantity of explosives from Lalbagh area in Rangpur town on Saturday. Police also detained four people for quizzing in connection with the recovery. According to locals and police sources, being informed by those four men, police recovered the explosives wrapped into a sack from a road in Lalbagh. Later, the recovered explosives were taken to the local police station.

In Natore, Naldanga thana police arrested an activist of the outlawed Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) on Saturday early morning from Shakharipara village of the thana in Natore. The detained was identified as Murshed (22), son of Akbar Ali of Shakharipara village under Naldanga thana of the district. Police said Murshed is one of the close accomplices of Ataur Rahman Suny.

In Narayanganj, law enforcers recovered four bomb-like substances from Roushanbagh in Narayanganj on Saturday morning. The bomb-like objects wrapped with red adhesive tapes were found in an abandoned condition in the drains. A team of RAB rushed to the spot and recovered the objects.

Two bombs have been recovered from the rail track at Rail bazaar area in Chuadanga, police sources said. After being informed, Sadar thana police recovered the bombs wrapped with red scotch tape inside a milk-powder container. Later, police defused the bombs.
Posted by:Steve White

#2  Police recovered huge quantity of explosives... the explosives wrapped into a sack

Perhaps it wasn't quite so much after all?
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-12-18 21:50  

#1  Guessin' the money types know how to get the pious types askin' for materiel.

Mebbe even the holy men work both sides of the street with the money men to get the rubes all fired up...
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-12-18 01:11  

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