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| 3 JMB men held; DB claims militants reorganising |
| 2014-08-01 |
[Dhaka Tribune] Detective Branch of Police personnel yesterday claimed to have nabbedDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! three members of banned Islamist organization Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) in the capital's Sayedabad with huge explosives and bomb making materials on Wednesday night. The DB personnel also claimed that the JMB had been trying to be reorganised in the form of International Lion of Islam organization al-Qaeda and trying to establish the philosophy of the al-Qaeda. Besides, the activists of the banned outfit also had a plan of carrying out kabooms at Eid congregations, the DB officials claimed. The detained JMB members were identified as Md Shameem Mahfuz alias Sumon aliasd Manring Morong, 38, of Gaibandha, Md Zahidur Rahman, 33, of Pirojpur, and Ismail Hossain, 39, of Chandpur. At a press briefing, the DB officials claimed that during the primary interrogation the detainees told about their recent activities. They also confessed of being involved in the activities of another Lion of Islam organization named Jama'atul Muslemin earlier. DB Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam said: "As part of their activities, they had been active in the recruitment of faceless myrmidons in deep forest in Thanchi of Bandarban where they had also been providing training to the new recruited members as part of their preparation of carrying out attacks." He also said the detainees had been coordinating among the faceless myrmidons in and around the capital. "Shameem Mahfuz had been keeping close communications with faceless myrmidons who are now runaways in Pakistain and different other places," said Monirul Islam. In a reply, he also said detained Shameem had been working as the chief coordinator and under his directives other detainees had been supplying explosives and leaflets in different places. DB sources said all the detainees were earlier arrested different times for their Lion of Islam activities and they resumed their activities after their releases on bails. The DB officials said the arrest was made following a long period of observation. |
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