Book 'im, Mahmoud!
a British citizen suspected of entering the country to recruit gunnies for jihadist groups overseas such as the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
organization.
Officers said Samiun Rahman, a 24-year-old Londoner of Bangladeshi origin, was picked up from a railway station in the capital around midnight on Sunday.
"During primary interrogation, he told police he was staying in Bangladesh to recruit jihadists for the IS and Nusra brigade (an affiliate of Al-Qaeda)," Dhaka metropolitan police said in a statement.
"He took part in fighting in Syria from September to December last year as a member of Nusra brigade," Dhaka police front man Masudur Rahman told AFP, adding that Rahman had traveled to Syria with a friend from Britannia.
He said Rahman, alias Ibn Hamdan, planned to send Bangladeshi gunnies to Syria and also wanted to set up an Al-Qaeda network inside Bangladesh and neighboring Myanmar.
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-
Zawahiri... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as
the real brains of the outfit.Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
announced plans earlier this month to launch a South Asian branch of the hard boy network.
Just last week, two other suspected gunnies were arrested for allegedly attempting to set up an Al-Qaeda network in Bangladesh.
Asif Adnan, 24, and Fazle Elahi Tanzil, 26, were members of the local Ansarullah Bangla Team, blamed for the murder last year of a blogger who was critical of Islam.
Several banned Islamist hard boy groups operate in Bangladesh and have been blamed for a series of deadly attacks since the late 1990s. But none of them have been linked to Al-Qaeda.
Rahman, dressed in a long robe, was paraded before the media at a police press briefing.
Police said he was born in London.
"He came here as he thought it was possible to send people from Bangladesh (to Syria)," said Dhaka police joint commissioner Monirul Islam.