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Afghanistan/South Asia
Tales from the Crossfire Gazette
2005-08-17
4 terrors killed in shootout with police, RAB
Four terrorists were killed in shootouts with police and members of the RAB in Pabna, Kushtia and Rajbari yesterday.
"Crossfire Season" is now open
In Pabna two terrorists were killed in a shootout between police and their cohorts at Daripara village in Faridpur upazila early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Mujibur Rahman alias Mujibur, 27, son of Nurul Huq, and Panu Mia, 21, son of Kayesuddin. Police said both the terrorists were the members of Purba Banglar Communist Party ML (Lal Pataka) and wanted in a number of cases. Police said they arrested Mujibur and Panu from Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur district on Monday.
"Stick'um up, boys! Youse coming wid us!"
According to their statement, police on Monday were taking them to Pabna from Gazipur to make arrest of their accomplices and seize hidden arms.
Same old story, same results

But, when police along with the terrorists reached Daripara village in Hadal union, sidekicks of Mujibur and Panu opened fire, triggering a gun fight between police and terrorists.
"Yar, we be the Sidekicks of Mujibur-Panu, Inc! You'll never take them alive, coppers!"
Panu and Mujibur caught in the crossfire while trying to escape from police capture, leaving them seriously injured.
AKA: shot full of holes
They were taken to upazila health complex where doctors declared them dead.
"They're dead, Jim"

A leader of an outlawed extremist group died in encounter with police at Nagar Mohammadpur in Sadar upazila of Hushtia early Tuesday. Police said they arrested Sujon, 25, deputy commander of outlawed Ganomukti Fouj, from a house at Uttar Lahini Daspara on Sunday afternoon and recovered a cut rifle and 20 rounds of bullets from his possession.
According to his statement, police on Monday night raided arms dens of the group in different areas. At Nagar Mohammadpur the police team faced barrage of gunfire when Sujan tried to slip away from the custody.
"Be very, very quiet. I'm trying to slip away!"
Police returned the fire. Caught in the crossfire Sujan died on the spot, police said.
"Ahhhhhhh...rose....bud!"

A sub-inspector and three constables were injured in the encounter.
Police said Sujon was wanted in five criminal cases including murder.

In Rajbari an alleged extremist was killed in a shootout between RAB members and terrorists at Goral village in Pangsha upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Nasimul Haq Sajal, 30, a sacked army member and second-in-command of `Tikka Bahini’. Police said RAB members arrested Sajal from Dhaka on Monday and took him to Goral village for recovering arms on the basis of his confessional statement.
They have that statement as a macro, saves time
As the RAB members reached the village, Tikka Bahini cadres opened fire on them, sparking a gunfight with the law-enforcers.
"It's the Tikka Bahini Cadre, open fire!"
During the gunfight, Sajal was struck by bullets and he died on the spot.
SEE: "rosebud"
After the gun battle the RAB men recovered a often dropped, never used shutter gun, one pistol, 4 rounds of bullet from the spot. Police said Sajal was a listed criminal and wanted in 10 criminal cases, including that of murder. A case was filed.
Landlady stabbed to death by tenant in Mirpur
A professional killer, allegedly engaged by a tenant stabbed to death a landlady in the city's Mirpur area on Tuesday.
I hate it when that happens

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the alleged mastermind of the killing plot just after a few hours of the incident. Earlier, the police with the help of local people arrested the killer when he was trying to flee away after murdering the woman.
According to sources, Rabeya Khatun (40), wife of Mohammad Nasir Uddin received fatal injuries when criminals stabbed her with sharp knives storming into her residence at House No-18, Road No-11, Block-A, Section-2, Mirpur under Mirpur police station at about 8:00 am. Rabeya Khatun met the tragic end of her life when she opened the main door of her residence after hearing the knock.
"Hark! I hear a knock on the door. And where is that scary music coming from?"
She received serious cut injuries in the chest, abdomen and throat and was reportedly dead on the spot. Local people along with the neighbours rushed to the spot hearing the cry of the victim and caught red-handed an alleged killer Abdul Khaleq (24) after a brief chase. Abdul Khaleq was severely wounded when angry mob beat him indiscriminately.
"He shived Rabeya! Get him!"

Later, a mobile team of police rescued seriously injured Khaleq and sent him to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in a critical condition. Police also recovered a knife from his possession.

Acting on a tip-off, the members of RAB-4 arrested Akhter Hossain, the tenant and also alleged mastermind of the murder conducting a series of raids at the local area soon after the incident.
Sometimes, rounding up the usual suspects works
Police suspected that the reason behind the murder might be a sequel to the conflict with the tenant Akhter Hossain over possession of a piece of land at the local area.
Although why anyone would want to own a piece of this hellhole is beyond me
The alleged killer Khaleq confessed to the police during the interrogation that Akhter Hossain hired him in exchange of Taka 30,000 to kill Rabeya Khatun.
Ratted him out, did he? Hard to find good killers these days
Akhter paid him (Khaleq) Taka 3,000 in advance and also promised to give the rest of the money after successful completion of the operation, Khaleq added. A case was filed with the concerned police station in this connection.

3 among fake RAB man held in Ctg
CHITTAGONG, Aug 16:–Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in two separate raids conducted last night at city’s Kotwali and Agrabad areas detained three culprits including a fake-RAB personnel and seized 199 contra banned drugs. The detainees were identified as Mohammad Monirul Islam, son of Dr. SM Sader Ali, Mohammad Sayed Ali, son of Abdul Jobbar and Mohammad Sharif, son of Hazi sayed Ahmed. Of the detainees, Mohammad Monirul was arrested from a restaurant near city’s Agrabad commercial area while Alam and Sharif were picked up from Hotel Zaman at city’s New Market area.
The RAB personnel said that Monirul had been demanding extortion from different people introducing him as a member of the RAB-7.
"Pay up, or we'll be taking a ride to look for arms!"
The RAB personnel, on the other hand, detained Alam and Sharif on charge of bearing Myanmar-made banned drug “Eyaba.” The RAB personnel recovered 199 pills including Taka approximately 14 thousand in cash from their possession. All the detainees were handed over to the respective police stations and separate cases were recorded in these connections.

Series of Synchronized bomb blasts shakes Bangladesh
EFL:Dhaka , Bangladesh - Around 100 bombs exploded almost simultaneously in cities around Bangladesh on Wednesday morning, between 11:00am to 11:30am .Bangladesh private satellite TV reported that at least 120 people were injured across the country in and around 58 different locations , some of the injured were in critical conditions , but no fatalities was reported . Police officials said the bombs appeared to be homemade and capable of causing only limited damage, however the instigators may have used sophisticated timing device to synchronized these explosions across the country to cause maximum panic .
Or they just synchronized their watches
"There are bomb blasts all over the country. We have reports of some injuries but no fatalities yet," said Abdul Kaiyum, Bangladesh's Inspector General of Police

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts, which hurt at least 120 people at 58 different locations , but leaflets from a banned Islamic group, the Jumatul Mujahedin, were found at the scene of some of the explosions in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Mymensingh, the Bangladeshi media reported. The group wants to establish an Islamic state in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh- as stated in their leaflets.
Mazeedul Haq, Chittagong's police commissioner, said a group calling itself Jamayetul Mujahideen had signed leaflets reading: "It is time to implement Islamic law in Bangladesh. There is no future with with man-made law."
A police official in Barisal said leaflets had been found there reading: "Bush and Blair be warned and get out of Muslim countries. Your days of ruling Muslim countries are over . However no independent verification could be made of these claims . It's an organized attack,” Lufuzzaman Babar, a top official in the home ministry, told the local TV station ATN Bangla. “It's not a simple incident.”
The blasts took place mainly at government offices, press clubs courts and busy city squares in at least eight cities and districts, police and Bangladeshi media reported. In Dhaka, about a dozen of the bombs exploded near the airport, Kalachnapur near the US embassy , at high court & judge court buildings and in Farm gate square . Major bomb blasts in public places that have killed at least 148 people since March 1999 still remain unsolved mysteries and the deadly killer-sport is recurring with surprising regularity .
As we've seen here, every other person in Bangladesh seems to be carrying a bomb when arrested.
Posted by:Steve

#5  No, the most disturbing thing are the two spinoffs planned... RAB: Miami and RAB: New York.
Posted by: Phil   2005-08-17 17:16  

#4  It's part of the macro RJ.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-08-17 15:48  

#3  The RAB impersonators are most troubling of all.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-08-17 14:22  

#2  After the gun battle the RAB men recovered a often dropped, never used shutter gun, one pistol, 4 rounds of bullet from the spot.

I'm curious, why do they keep reporting that they recovered a couple of "Rounds of Bullet", is ammunition banned?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2005-08-17 13:37  

#1  "It's the Tikka Bahini Cadre, open fire!"

Ima going to open the Tikka Bahini Cafe. Free doughnuts for all members of the RAB, and karaoke every Friday night.
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-08-17 11:47  

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