Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
12 suspected snuffies including the local head of Al Qaeda's branch in the region, foiling an attack planned for the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramazan.
The Rapid Action Battalion
(RAB) also seized explosives and other bomb-making materials during raids on Wednesday, July 2, on the bad boys' hideouts in the capital Dhaka, front man Major Maksudul Alam said."During the raids we arrested 12 snuffies including Maolana Mainul Islam who is the chief coordinator of AQIS in Bangladesh," RAB's Alam told AFP.
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) had been planning an unspecified attack in the Moslem-majority nation after Eidul Fitr, which celebrates the end of Ramazan, Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan, the most senior RAB front man, told news hounds.
"They've selected a madrassa in (the northern district of) Bogra for training," he said, adding that the group was financed by individuals from Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and United Arab Emirates.
AQIS has grabbed credit for the murder of several secular bloggers in Bangladesh this year, including the hacking to death of Bangladeshi-born US citizen Avijit Roy in Dhaka in February.
Last September, Al Qaeda released a video announcing the establishment of a branch on the Indian subcontinent, AQIS, saying it wanted to revive jihadist activity.
Bangladesh, home to the world's fourth largest Moslem population, has not been hit by a major bad boy attack since 2006.
Although the country has in recent years witnessed a rise in support for a hardline Islamist political group, experts say there is little appetite for religious extremism in the country. There are also no known cases of Bangladeshis joining the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group.
| ...excepting, of course, the twelve written about in this very article. |