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| Bangladesh |
| Al Markajul official picked up |
| 2011-05-09 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] CID personnel last night picked up Moulana Abdul Rashid, vice-chairman of non-governmental organisation Al Markajul Islami Bangladesh, ... an ambulance service reputed to be a cover for jihad... from his office in the city's Shyamoli with links to the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in 2004. Sixty-year-old Rashid from Gopalganj was picked up shortly after 11:00pm, said Criminal Investigation Department officials. The grenade attackers decamped Bangabandhu Avenue, the scene of the crime, by the NGO's ambulance, they said. Preferring anonymity, a CID official said, "Rashid is being quizzed at the CID headquarters at Malibagh. He will be produced before the court tomorrow [today]. We will seek his remand showing him incarcerated in the August 21 grenade attack case." The CID jugged Rashid on information from Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI) Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. leader Moulana Sheikh Farid, who is now on remand. On Rashid's involvement in the grenade attack, Moulana Sayeed Nur, acting chairman of the NGO, said, "The allegation is baseless." Tut tut, my good man! And tut! Rashid's son Hafez Abdullah said he was unaware of the cause of his father's detention. "We could not contact him, as his cell phone remained switched off after he was picked up," said Abdullah. Twenty-four people, including AL leader Ivy Rahman, were killed and more than 300 others injured in the grenade attack on an AL rally on August 21, 2004. |
| Posted by:Fred |