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| Narrator, singer in new IS video is Tahmid Shafi |
| 2016-09-27 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] The narrator of the latest 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.... video that features the Gulshan cafe attackers as heroes and calls on supporters for more barbarities has been identified. He is none other than Tahmid Rahman Shafi or Abu Isha al-Bangali, confirms Tasneem Khalil, a Sweden-based journalist who monitors online activities of jihadists, using some software tools. Once a popular Close-Up star, Shafi also sang a motivational song in the video. Shafi, who worked as a teacher at an English medium school before going missing in mid-2015, and two of his Bangladeshi associates spoke on camera in the first IS video released from Raqqa, Syria on July 6 hailing the Holey Artisan Bakery attack that killed 23 people including 17 foreigners on July 1. While the video created much hype in social media, the trio were identified by their friends and family members, as well as the law enforcers. Read more: New Islamic State video features Gulshan attackers The new video was first released on Android app Telegram by Arabic Nashir, the official IS media channel, on Friday and later posted by IS’ Bangla media At-Tamkin. The 15-minute video was produced by "Bilad al-Bengal media office." Bilad, in this context, means province or region. On Sunday, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal reiterated the government’s firm stance against militancy and said that there was no leader of the IS group in Bangladesh. "The video footage has been released as part of a conspiracy against Bangladesh," he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |