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| ''Grenades brought to kill me'' | |||
| 2008-12-24 | |||
| Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday recovered three improvised hand grenades from Nabiabad village in Devidwar upazila of Comilla, around an hour after BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia addressed an election rally four km away. The Rab men also arrested two operatives of the banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), and seized a 10kg bomb from a JMB den at Nabiabad village. The former prime minister addressed the rally at around 12:30pm at Chandina upazila headquarters. The BNP chief at a rally in Laxmipur later alleged that the grenades seized had been brought to assassinate her, and disrupt the forthcoming national election. Besides, her party announced countrywide protest rallies and demonstrations today. Rab members arrested JMB operative Masud at Chandinabazar at around 1:30pm. Following his confession, Rab men arrested Noyeem, raiding a hidden den of JMB at Nabadia village at about 4:30pm." "Soon after the Rab men reached near the den, three JMB men came out of a house with grenades in their hands and threw one at them. The grenade did not explode," Col Gulzar continued.
Both Gulzar and Sazzad however declined to link the recovery of grenades and arrest of the JMB men with security threats to BNP chief Khaleda without investigating the two incidents. They also said the incidents took place about three km off the venue of Khaleda's rally, and two hours after Khaleda's departure. They said Rab continued its operation to arrest the JMB men who escaped and receiver more explosives. Meanwhile, the recovery of grenades and arrest of two JMB operatives prompted BNP to organise countrywide protest rallies and demonstrations today. Nazrul Islam Khan, joint secretary of the party, in a press statement urged the government to strengthen security of Khaleda Zia. He also called upon people to join today's protest rallies and demonstrations. | |||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Protest, demonstrate, bring grenades. |
| Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-12-24 15:44 |
| #1 My name is Gulzar. I carry a badge. I was working the day watch out of Nabiabad. The call came in: 'Sir, there are miscreants with IHG at the election rally held by Chairperson Zia.' Quickly I dispatched my team. Unaccustomed as they are to working in broad daylight, they quickly managed to subdue the operatives, retrieving the IHG (for storage next to the stutter gun (or guns), and reuse at a plausibly deniable later time) and all in all acquitted themselves quite nicely. My name is Gulzar. I carry a badge. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-12-24 11:44 |