Category: Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Jadid al-qaeda suspect held in Barisal 309 Reads

Monday, May 21, 2007 - 01:26 PM

Sent to Dhaka for JIC quizzing
Our Correspondent, Barisal

Md. Ibrahim Sardar, a suspected activist of newly floated Islamist militant outfit Jaded al-qaeda and a former associate fof notorious criminal Pichchi Hannan was arrested by police from Sreepur village near Durgapur Bazaar in Hizla upazila Sunday night.


Matiur Rahman, officer-in-Charge of Hizla police station said Ibrahim was wanted by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab). Her was arrested from near a cinema hall at Durgapur Bazar and handed over to RAB-8 in Barisal yesterday. He is son of Safizuddin Sardar of Sreepur village.


Ibrahim was sent to Dhaka for interrogation by Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC), the OC said.

Sources in RAB-8 said after primary interrogation he was handed over to RAB-3 at Mawa ferry ghat at about noon yesterday for taking him to Dhaka.

ASP Siraj, an official of RAB-3, said Ibrahim created a reign of terror in his area by using the political shelter of Awami League and Pichchi Hannan's protection.

After Pichchi Hannan was killed in crossfire, Ibrahim established links with Islamist militants, ASP Siraj said. Local people distributed sweets as news of his arrest spread, the Rab official said.

Police sources said Ibrahim confessed to his involvement with Pichchi Hannan and Islamsit militants but they declined to elaborate.


The sources said they, along with joint forces have launched drives in different areas on the basis of his confessions to nab criminals and Islamist militants.

http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/05/22/d70522070385.htm

Bangladesh: Al Qaeda outfit threatens to blow up Bangladesh bridge 302 Reads

Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 12:03 AM

An Islamist outfit calling itself Zadid (New) Al Qaeda has threatened to blow up the Hardinge Bridge, a key rail link between the south-western and the northern regions of Bangladesh, prompting tightening of vigil by army and security forces.

From correspondents in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19 May 2007 - (www.indiaenews.com)

An Islamist outfit calling itself Zadid (New) Al Qaeda has threatened to blow up the Hardinge Bridge, a key rail link between the south-western and the northern regions of Bangladesh, prompting tightening of vigil by army and security forces.

Built during 1910-12 by the erstwhile British Indian government, the steel bridge over the Padma river is located near the industrial city of Pabna in west-central Bangladesh. It had been an important rail stop in years before the 1947 partition of India for trains from Calcutta (now Kolkata) bound for Assam and Darjeeling.

It is at present the principal link bridge on the Padma in Bangladesh, and the location where water released by India under the Ganga Water Treaty of 1997 is measured.

Zadid Al Qaeda sent a letter to a senior railway official Thursday threatening to blow up the bridge prompting an immediate security alert, The New Nation reported Saturday.

The Islamist outfit earlier this month exploded bombs at Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet railway stations, in which one person was injured, and left at the scenes aluminium plates inscribed on it a call for 'the holy war' against the minority Ahmadiyyas. It also ordered all NGO activists to quit their jobs by May 10.

The threat came even as newspapers reported that banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) remnants have regrouped with fellow militants of other extremist outfits to carry forward the self-assigned task of Islamic rule.

This is after six top JMB leaders were executed in March for killing two judges. Bangladesh has since witnessed several retaliatory actions, including the killing of the police prosecutor.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)

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