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| Suicide vests in Ashkona: A new tool for terror |
| 2016-12-30 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Investigators have said that the grenades they found from the raid in a terrorist den in city's Ashkona area earlier this week were all handmade, as were the boom jackets. Militants at this New JMB den were using the same sort of materials and techniques used by JMB for making the bombs, but they were connecting several bombs together in boom jackets to make them deadlier. Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s (DMP) Counter Terrorism and Transnational (CTTC) Unit recovered and defused 19 grenades from that den, 10 of them tied inside two boom jackets and two unwent kaboom!grenades from the body of the female bully boy Shakira. A CTTC bomb disposal unit official told the Dhaka Tribune that the grenades recovered from the den were similar to the ones found in Mirpur last year. The bombs were made using old JMB techniques using local materials. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... unlike the old group, New JMB bomb makers put the grenades in vests. The three vests found in Ashkona, one on the body of Shakira, who blew herself up during the police raid, were crudely sewn by hand. On the other hand, the two found in Mirpur last year were manufactured belts with shoulder straps, the official said. The official said Death Eaters were using four to six individual bombs to make a single vest. The grenades manufactured by JMB usually contained pins to release the pressure, but the grenades on the Ashokona vests were connected through wires so that the bombs could be went kaboom!at the same time. To generate required power within the vest, the Death Eaters had increased the number of batteries in the grenades. |
| Posted by:Fred |