Two Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operatives, including the outfit's Chittagong divisional chief Mohammad alias Javed Iqbal, yesterday gave confessional statement before a court. Mohammad, 25, son of Maulana Abdul Awal of Khurushkul in Cox's Bazaar, was also placed on a five-day fresh remand after being shown arrested in another bomb blast case filed with the Bakolia Police Station. He along with Sitakunda regional commander Delwar Hossain was produced before the court at around 3:15pm.Mohammad confessed that he along with other JMB members were trained on shooting, blasting bombs and spying at Baghmara in Rajshahi. "After the countrywide bomb blast on August 17 I went to Dhaka and met Shaekh Abdur Rahman who praised me for my successful operation in Chittagong," Mohammed was quoted as saying in his confessional statement in a case of bomb attack on the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Moqsedur Rahman.
In his two-hour confession, Mohammad said a meeting was held to plan the bomb blasts a week before August 17 at the city's Jhautola Ahle Hadith Madrasa. Two JMB members named Suman and Zahid were instructed to fix the spots and 18 bombs kept at the madrasa were handed over to them for detonating at those places of the greater Chittagong district, Mohammad said. Delwar confessed to carrying five bombs to Rangamati. After the confession Mohammad and Delwar were taken to the Detective Branch office in Chittagong.