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Bangladesh
4 Bangladeshis among the 15 killed
2015-08-09
[Bangla Daily Star] Four Bangladesh nationals were among those killed in Thursday's suicide kaboom on a Saudi mosque, diplomatic sources in Dhaka confirmed yesterday.

Four more Bangladeshis were maimed in the attack, the sources said, adding that the Bangladesh foreign ministry was likely to provide details about the victims' identities today.

An 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group jacket wallah detonated an explosives-packed vest in a mosque inside a Saudi Special Forces headquarters, killing 15 people on Thursday. In the latest string of ISIS attacks in the kingdom, the bomber struck during noon prayers in the city of Abha, in the southern province of Asir near the border with war-strewn Yemen, the interior ministry said.

A ministry front man, quoted by al-Ekhbariya state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, said 11 of those killed were coppers and four were Bangladeshis who worked at the police compound, reports Al Jazeera.

One Bangladeshi victim was identified as Jibon, son of late Belal, of Asadnagar village in Brahamanpara upazila of Comilla, reports UNB.

Earlier yesterday, Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
condemned the attack and expressed her solidarity with the Kingdom to fight against terrorism in any form.
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