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| JMB was ready to kill Khaleda | |
| 2009-02-24 | |
| Banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) "prepared to assassinate" former prime minister Khaleda Zia at an election rally in Chandina, Comilla, on December 23 last year. Alleged JMB operative Masum Bin Abdul Hye, 32, admitted this yesterday during his five-day remand. Chittagong Metropolitan Police arrested Masum on December 31 last year and he was shown arrested on February 22 in a case filed in connection with the attempted attack on Khaleda in Chandina. Debidwar police of Comilla placed him before a Comilla court seeking a 10-day remand. Masum in his statement to Debidwar police claimed that he knew nothing about the JMB operation and he was brought to Chandina on December 22 to take part in an Islamic mehfil. He spent the night at the house of one Mostaque at Nabiabad of Debidwar upazila. He claimed that during the night of December 22, JMB operatives Naim, 20, Abu Ansari, 22, Habib, 22, and Asad, 21, held a meting where they planned to kill Khaleda saying the country was not being ruled by Sharia law. He said on December 23, they gave him a bag full of grenades. Masum claimed that he planned to flee from the JMB men. He said he gave the bag to Naim at Chandina Bus Stand and secretly got on a bus heading for Chittagong. Officer-in-charge (OC) of Debidwar Police Station Md Jahedul Islam, however, told The Daily star that Masum is a JMB operative and he, during interrogation, gave police vital information regarding the attempted attack. Jahedul claimed that Masum confessed his involvement in the incident.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Did he confess to the Lindburgh baby kidnapping? If not, send him back to the RAB for more... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-02-24 14:10 |