Sorry for poaching your territory, Steve... |
The Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday midnight arrested the owner of a printing press, where the leaflets of the banned Islamist outfit, Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, were printed. The battalion said it arrested the press owner, Jewel Khan, based on the statements of his 14 workers detained on September 16. Jewel was arrested from Basabo area for his links with the militant outfit. The battalion also seized some CDs and documents related to Mujahideen’s militant activities from the press, Colour City. The officials said Jewel admitted printing the leaflets and booklets at his press.
"I confess! I dunnit! Don't take me to the abandoned warehouse at 3 a.m.!" | The battalion also seized a large number of documents from another press Daud Modern Printers at Prasanna Poddar Lane at Tantibazar of old Dhaka on September 16 and arrested eight workers from there. All 22 press workers are detained in jail.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!" | Both the presses have printed the Mujahideen’s leaflets, booklets and handbills in Bangla, English and Arabic and the work order was given by a Mujahideen computer operator, Akramul Islam. Akram was arrested from a ground floor flat of a six-storey building at East Basabo on September 8 and he made his confessions before the court on Wednesday.
"Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!"
"Yer honor, we'd like to take the defendant to the abandoned warehouse. We think he might have an arms cache there!"
"When do you want to do that, officer?"
"Prob'ly around 3 a.m. That's the best time."
"I confess! I dunnit! I killed Jon Benet, too!" | A team of RAB-7 recovered two sacks of bomb-making materials from an inaccessible area of Idgor forest under Ramu upazila in Cox’s Bazar early Thursday. Two local guns were also recovered during the pre-dawn raid. The battalion members detained a man, Nurunnabi, from the house and they were interrogating him whether he has links with the banned militant outfit. |