nabbed two members of banned cut-thoat outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen BangladeshThe JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Mohammedan Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually went
kaboom!. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Soddy Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Soddy Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
(JMB) from a rented house in Alokdia of Sirajganj early yesterday.
The arrestees, Mohtasin Billah, 25, was the treasurer of JMB central unit and Al-Amin Hossain, 20, was an ehsar (fulltime) member, said Rab.
The crime busters produced the two before journalists at Rab headquarters yesterday.
"Lookee what we found!"
A team of Rab-12 raided the house in Alokdia village under Salonga Police Station and nabbed them around 1:30am, said Commander Mohammad Sohail, director of Rab's Legal and Media Wing.
During the raid the law enforcers seized some jihadi books, paper cuttings of JMB-related news,
| How cute -- they were scrapbooking. Probably just as well they never tried for grown-up careers. |
Prolly had been better off doing armed robberies and kidnappings to raise funds. Counterfeiting is too traceable.
They also recovered some hand-written documents containing description on how to operate firearms, guard dens, work in disguise and what to say during police interrogation.
| "Oboy -- can I do the interrogation, Sarge? This is going to be a fun one." "This one is going to require extra mustache wax all around, lad. You haven't enough mustache yet. Maybe next year." |
Welcome the new capo. The same as the old capo.
The outfit runs with the donations of members and by
| They sound pretty moth-eaten, this particular bunch of lions of Islam. |
| Nepotism has been the ruination of more organizations... |