Police recovered huge quantities of bomb materials from the rest house of a mosque in Sylhet town, 21 hours into Tuesday's bomb attack on a judge in the district, while the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activist caught after the attack admitted to making the attack. JMB activist Akhtar Hossain, who was caught by pedestrians | Steve has previously noted the efficiency of Bangla mobs in administering a thorough thumping. A bit later on in the article, we learn that ol' Akhtar's not feeling so good... |
immediately after he hurled a bomb on Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Biplob Goswami in front of his residence, said in his confessional statement to a magistrate that he did it as part of the JMB's countrywide programme of attacking judges."I did it to protest the cruel mistreatment of my Moose limb brethren and sistren and to strike back at American hegemony establish the law of Islam and it is part of our jihad to establish Islam in Bangladesh," he said in the statement.  Meanwhile, Tangail police submitted a charge-sheet saying the outlawed extremist organisation Janajuddha provided the JMB with financial and technological assistance in carrying out five blasts in the town on August 17. During preliminary interrogation by local police, JMB activist Akhtar also admitted to his involvement with the JMB since 2001, reports our Sylhet correspondent, and also signed a statement that he is a monkey's uncle and likes to dress in fishnets. Acting on his information, police raided the rest house of Bhangatikor Haji Buru Mia Jame Masjid in the city's Sheikhghat area yesterday afternoon and seized bomb materials and some books, including an Islamic magazine, from one of the rooms of the rest house. The bomb materials include a dice, batteries, electric wires, small shards of iron nuts and bolts. Among the books seized are college texts and an issue of the Islamic magazine Al Hedayet. According to the register book records of the rest house, the room had been rented to one Delwar from Austadhar of Muktagachha upazila of Mymensingh district. The law enforcers were looking for Delwar and one Obayed, who owns the books.| Toldja those "Ex Libris" bookplates were a bad idea, Obayed... |
Police arrested Imam of the mosque Moulana Saifuddin in the evening. They also arrested Habibur Rahman, a former student of Shahjalal Dargah Madrasa, suspecting his involvement in the attack.| "Stick 'em up, yer holiness. You too, young padawan." |
The rest house authorities said they rent out eight of the 10 rooms while the imam and muajjin of the mosque live in the two others. Meanwhile, Akhtar admitted through broken teeth that he had been an activist of the Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from 1996 to 2001 before joining the JMB.
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