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| Lashkar plotters identified | ||||
| 2009-11-08 | ||||
| [Bangla Daily Star] The Detective Branch of police has identified several persons including foreign nationals as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives holed up in the country with plans to attack the US embassy in Dhaka and other establishments. A DB official who would not be identified talking about matters under investigation also said the three LeT men arrested recently at a hilltop madrasa in Chittagong had regular contact with two LeT leaders detained in the United States and one in Pakistan on charges of scheming to attack a Danish newspaper house.
Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner of DB-South, said two foreigners top their list of LeT suspects. The two know the ins and outs of the attack plot and are playing an important role in efforts to pull it off. "Not only the US embassy, they may attempt to attack other places as well," the DC-DB said. "We have specific evidence the detainees had links to plotting terror attacks here," he added. The three Lashkar men rounded up from Chittagong are Mufti Harun Izhar, 33, Shahidul Islam, 26, and Al Amin alias Saiful. Harun is son of Mufti Izharul Islam, ameer of an Islami Oikya Jote faction. The DB assistant commissioner who led the raid on the Chittagong madrasa said they had been looking for several persons linked to LeT and Huji and the planned terror attack. He said they have information that the suspected foreigners would frequent the madrasa, which might have been used as a training camp-cum-shelter for the militants.
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| Posted by:Fred |