[Dhaka Tribune] Five suspected members of Neo JMB, an offshoot of banned holy warrior outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
The 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 and probably defunct today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim 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 exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi 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, Saudi 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), have been arrested by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational (CTTC) unit of police in Sylhet over a kaboom in Paltan. The identities of the suspects are yet to be disclosed. CTTC made the arrests on Tuesday.
Saiful Islam, deputy commissioner of the CCTC unit, confirmed news of the arrests and said the suspects are being brought to Dhaka.
On July 26, a crude bomb and explosive cocktails were recovered from bag on the cycle of violence of a policeman in the Paltan area of Dhaka.
The bomb disposal unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) was called in after a sergeant noticed the bag hanging on his cycle of violence in Gulistan, said OC Md Sentu Miah of Paltan cop shoppe.
"The sergeant had parked his bike near Bangabandhu Square around 9.30pm. He returned a few minutes later to find a bag hanging on the bike with a bomb-like material inside," the OC said.
A detonator was also found. Later, the explosives were destroyed by the bomb squad, he added.
Earlier on July 19, police headquarters issued a letter regarding a possible attack by snuffies ahead of Eid. Alerted all district SPs and units were alerted.
In the letter, three embassies, international airports, temples, pagodas, churches, coppers, police vehicles, and police infrastructure were mentioned as possible targets of the attack. 
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