 Al Qaeda has renewed its drive to recruit Jehadis for Iraq war from Jamat-e-Islam (JEI) cadres in Bangladesh, official sources said here today.
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An official release, quoting Border Security Force (BSF), said that a group of Islamic fundamentalists consisting of members of Al Qaeda have come to Moulavi Bazar in Bangladesh recently to recruit Jehadis for Iraq war from JEI cadres of that country. They held a meeting in the house of a doctor, Safiqul Rehaman, JEI president of Kulaura in Sylhet district, and chalked out their next course of action. During the first week of January, four youths -- Kalimuddin, Moitur Mian, Asim Khan and Basir Mian - all resident of Moulavi Bazar district, were recruited by the activists of Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islam (HUJI) having close links with JEI. After the recruitment the youths were sent to Naikhongchari under Bandarban district of Chittagong hill tracts, where about 50 such cadres are now undergoing rigorous training, the statement added. It said that the Muslim fundamentalist organisations in Bangladesh are running short of Jehadis to be sent to Iraq. Both JEI and HUJI are now under tremendous pressure from the donation giving groups
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of countries and are hastily recruiting youths for imparting Jehadi training before sending them to Islamic front of Iraq. Meanwhile, a large number of training and base camps had been set up by the militants of Northeastern region of India in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in south-east Bangladesh. The BSF had already given a list of about 200 such camps to Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and requested them to demolish these camps and hand over the Indian militants to New Delhi. The militant outfits of Tripura - National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF)- alone set up about 50 camps in various parts of Bangladesh, especially in CHT. However, a large number of militants mostly belonging to various factions of NLFT have deserted their Bangladeshi camps and surrendered to the Tripura government during the past several months. |