[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
four suspected Death Eaters, including a pilot of Biman Bangladesh for planning sabotage using aircraft.
The four members of banned Death Eater outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were arrested on Tuesday.
Of the arrestee, the Biman officer was identified as Sabbir. He is also first officer of the national flag carrier.
RAB Legal and Media Wing Mufti Mahmud Khan said they were arrested for planning a Death Eater attack by using an aircraft.
He said the detainees are close associates of Death Eater Abdullah, who went kaboom! at a den in Mirpur.
Details regarding the matter will be disclosed in a press briefing later in the day.
On September 6, seven people, including Abdullah, died in a suicide kaboom at a Death Eater hideout at Darus Salam in Mirpur.
Sabbir Emam, a pilot with state-run Biman Bangladesh Airlines, was detained in Dhaka with three others suspected of links to a bully boy group blamed for a cafe siege last year that left 22 people dead, including 18 foreigners.
The Rapid Action Battalion police unit said Sabbir plotted with senior faceless myrmidons from Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh to crash a plane into the homes of politicians or to take passengers hostage.
Sabbir allegedly had ties to senior turbans including Sarwar Jahan, the head of a new JMB faction, before he was killed in a police raid.
Police say Sabbir and Sarwar plotted a plane attack with another man, Abdullah, who was killed in a raid in September along with six others, including his wife and children, in an apartment building in Dhaka.
The building was owned by Sabbir's father, who was questioned by police. 
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