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Bangladesh
Bangla: Lashkar's explosives expert captured
2010-10-10
[Bangla Daily Star] Yet another Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, this time an explosives expert, and his local aide were jugged by Rab in the city's Uttara early yesterday with a huge amount of explosives and bomb making materials.
Good thing they were captured, then.
It was the first arrest of any LeT bomb expert in the country, according to Commander Mohammad Sohail, Rab's legal and media wing director.

He said the battalion had recovered 30 kilograms of high explosive with the capacity equivalent to trinitrotoluene (TNT) and six bottles of liquid chemical from their possession.

However,
The infamous However...
 it couldn't be learnt whether the Pakistain-based turban outfit is plotting any bomb attack in Bangladesh or neighbouring country.
Not yet, perhaps. Send for the #7 mustache wax and the #4 truncheon!
No, no, no! It's the number FOUR mustache wax, the real heavy, tarry stuff, and the number SEVEN truncheon, with a rich, Corinthian leather-wrapped handle!
The LeT man, Wazed Khan alias Zafar alias Salman, 27, is a Pak national.
Pakistani and plural aliases? Book him, Danno!
His aide Abu Bakkar Siddique, 49, is a stranded Pak and a resident of Turag Housing in the city's Mohammadpur area.
"Stranded Pak"? What on earth does that mean?
The Rab jugged LeT members first on February 28, said Sohail. So far nine operatives of the internationally banned organisation have been caught by the battalion and of them, four are locals and the rest are Paks.

A joint team of Rab intelligence wing and Rab-1 made yesterday's arrests around 12:15am from Abdullahpur, Uttara after a tip-off from LeT man Maulana Mohammad Imran, another Pak jugged on September 29 in Narayanganj.
How good of the good maulana to share that particular bit of information.
Another Rab team recovered huge explosives from a house at Shahibagh, Savar on October 6 acting on Maulana Imran's information, Sohail added.

Wazed Khan came to the country on April 7 this year with a tourist visa on orders from a top LeT leader, Abdul Kuddus alias Abdul Karim Tunda alias Babaji.
Does Bangladesh get a lot of tourists from Pakistan? Coming to see where Daddy marched through when he was in the army, perhaps to visit the half-siblings Daddy left behind?
Wazed while a Lahore Islamic University student received training on explosives from Abdul Kuddus.

Sohail said, Abdul Kuddus alias Tunda, who is now detained in a Pak jail, visited Bangladesh and held meetings with JMB chief Sheikh Abdur Rahman, who was later executed.
This is getting complicated.
In Bangladesh Mohammad Imran received Wazed and introduced him to Bakkar, the owner of Anika Chemical, Sohail said adding, Bakkar arranged Wazed's accommodation at his residence in Turag Housing.
No doubt Sohail has arranged for Mr. Bakkar's accomodation in the Rab interview rooms...
Maulana Imran and Bakkar provided Wazed with different chemicals to produce explosives. The bomb expert was asked to handover the finished explosives to Maulana Imran, said Sohail.

During interrogation, Bakkar admitted he had bought the chemicals from Lalbagh, Old Dhaka.

In 2007 Bakkar got acquainted with Maulana Imran while Bakkar was residing at a rented house in Mirpur. The two became involved in the business of fake Indian currency.

Several Pak operatives of LeT are active in the country and they have made explosives. But their targets are yet to be known, said Sohail. The Pak operatives were not given the address of the other LeT teams for their safety. The law enforcers could not learn how many of them are now in Bangladesh.

Sohail said the LeT has no unit in the country. But it is trying to use the country as a haven for running business of fake currencies and making explosives.

Rab personnel also seized passports of the two detainees. The passport of Bakkar shows he made eight trips to Pakistain and three trips in India recently.
Oh dear. A good thing he was caught.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Pakistani expats in Bangladesh are "stranded," I suppose, because it sucks there.
Posted by: American Delight   2010-10-10 13:00  

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