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| Bangladesh |
| JMB now small, but menacingly poised |
| 2009-02-22 |
| More than half a dozen key players behind the near-simultaneous countrywide blasts in 2005 are still at large and regrouping banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). Sleuths involved in the hunt for the militants for over last three years told The Daily Star yesterday that the outlawed group is not as big now as it was a few years back, but it surely poses serious threats to national security. They said many of them thought execution of six JMB top brass including its supremo Shaikh Abdur Rahman and operations commander Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai in March 2007 would leave the outfit in ruins. But soon they found to their dismay that the militant remnants had been working relentlessly to gain the lost ground. Meanwhile, sources in the law enforcement communality said ego clashes between the police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) intensified during the caretaker regime, slowing down the anti-militant drive. |
| Posted by:Fred |