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Bangladesh
Jewel sings
2005-12-07
A highly placed source said that Jewel, a loopy female vocalist and commander of Gazipur district and a bomb-making expert, told the police that he had planned to carry out suicide bombings at five spots in Dhaka including Bangladesh Secretariat, High Court, Judge’s Court, Dhaka University and in a rally at Paltan Maidan. The suicide squad of JMB, in the guise of either hawkers or students or government officials also planned to attack Mint, National University, Open University, SP’s office and MP’s office in Gazipur district. Jewel also disclosed names of about 25 bomb-making experts belonging to JMB who are now residing in Dhaka and its adjoining districts to carry out suicide attacks, the source further added.

The JMB supremo Shaikh Abdur Rahman trained Jewel on how to handle sophisticated arms and produce bomb in Chittagong, police sources said adding that Jewel joined JMB from Harkatul Jihad in 2002. Jewel held meetings with the JMB chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman and his brother Ataur Rahman alias Sani at different places in Bangladesh including Dhaka and Chittagong, sources said adding that Jewel also received training in handling arms and in producing bombs from Afghanistan.

Following the statement of Jewel, a squad of Gazipur police conducted raids in a house and a hotel in Basabo to arrest Ataur Rahman alias Sani but failed to nab him. Several teams of police are conducting raids in Gazipur and its adjoining areas to nab the JMB suicide squad members who are now staying in the areas, police sources said. As part of the drives, Gazipur police arrested some 26 JMB members from different parts of the district. An eight-member explosive experts team from Singapore arrived in the city on Monday night at the invitation of Bangladesh Police. The team had already visited the spots of bomb blasts twice in Gazipur where two suicide bomb attacks occurred on November 29 and December 1 that killed 10 people including lawyers and inflicted injuries to over 90 persons.
Posted by:Fred

#8  they are!
Posted by: Red Dog   2005-12-07 20:05  

#7  Jewel came from Homer, Alaska, about 100 miles S of Anchorage

Folks in Homer think folks who live out of a car in San Diego are rich.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-12-07 16:52  

#6  The team had already visited the spots of bomb blasts twice in Gazipur where two suicide bomb attacks occurred on November 29 and December 1 that killed 10 people including lawyers and inflicted injuries to over 90 persons.

I don't know whether to take this as a wish that all 10 would've been lawyers, or that you have to specifically state that lawyers are "persons." Both are equally humorous.
Posted by: BA   2005-12-07 14:54  

#5  and she lived out of her car here in San Diego, so she knows what poverty is, seems she's lost her roots?
Posted by: Frank G   2005-12-07 12:57  

#4  Jewel came from Homer, Alaska, about 100 miles S of Anchorage. She rose to stardom with her pop hits. There was going to be a big New Years wingding concert in Anchorage, featuring her, but they priced tickets at $100 each or so, and every said Foxtrot India, so sales were, ahem, slow. Jewel cancelled out and everyone was pi**ed.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-12-07 11:04  

#3  I'd hit it:
Posted by: Raj   2005-12-07 08:33  

#2  I say we send Michael Douglas and Danny Devito on one of them there extraordinary renditions I been reading so much about.
Posted by: mjh   2005-12-07 07:59  

#1  A highly placed source said that Jewel, commander of Gazipur district and a bomb-making expert, told the police that he had planned to carry out suicide bombings at five spots in Dhaka

didn't MGM make the musical?
Posted by: Red Dog   2005-12-07 03:58  

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