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| Burdwan blast: 4 JMB militants charged |
| 2015-03-31 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India has formally charged four Bangladeshi nationals belonging to bully boy outfit 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) among 21 accused for their involvement in the Burdwan blast. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India has formally charged in a special court 21 people, including four Bangladeshi nationals, for their involvement in the Burdwan blast. The chargesheet was filed before a National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court in Kolkata on Monday, reports Times of India. "Twenty-one accused, including four Bangladeshi nationals, have been charged for offences relating to terrorist act, conspiracy, recruitment, funding and running terrorist training camps, possession of arms and explosives, offences of forgery, offences relating to foreigners act and passport act," an NIA officer told IANS. The blast took place in a house in Khagragarh in Burdwan district on October 2, killing two JMB murderous Moslems and injuring another. Probing the blast, the NIA has so far locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 18 people from various parts of the country as well as Dhaka in Bangladesh. The agency has claimed its investigation showed that the JMB had established its network in many districts - particularly in Murshidabad, Nadia, Malda, Birbhum and Burdwan in Bengal, Barpeta in Assam, and Sahibganj and Pakur in Jharkhand. As many as 15 people suspected to be involved in the case are missing and on the run. |
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