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| No, not *this* militant. Other militants, capische? |
The Home Ministry ordered the alert early this week after receiving intelligence that members of the banned Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh were regrouping, and "might go for further attacks at any place, any time," the English-language Daily Star reported, citing unnamed security sources. The militants want to replace Bangladesh's secular laws with strict Islamic rule and have been held responsible for bombings that killed 26 people and wounded dozens across the country last year.
The government had received reports that group was reforming and wanted to avenge the arrests of several of its top leaders, the newspaper said. In May, a court sentenced seven militants to death, including the group's two top leaders - Shaikh Abdur Rahman and Siddiqul Islam - for their involvement in the slayings of two judges in a November 14 bomb attack.