Bangladesh |
Farid planned Huji revival |
2013-04-01 |
[Bangla Daily Star] Former Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leader Farid Uddin Ahammad had decided to revive 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. ) in coordination with some Afghan war veterans, former Shibir cadres and leaders and activists of different Death Eater outfits, detectives say. Apart from establishing Khilafat in Bangladesh, he was backing the anti-government movement and obstructing the war crimes trial, they add. "Farid in his publications elaborated the ways of reviving HuJI, its reorganization and future activities," said a Detective Branch official close to the interrogation team. Quoting Farid the DB official, who spoke anonymously, said: "Farid opted for reviving HuJI as there are similarities in the ideologies of the HuJI in Bangladesh, Pakistain and Afghanistan." Since September last year, Farid built up communications with a dozen Afghan war veterans, a number of former and present Shibir cadres and many members of various Death Eater outfits like HuJI, Harkatul Mujahideen and Allahar Dal. Detectives on Friday tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Farid, who is also known as the ideological guru of different Death Eater outfits like HuJI and Allahar Dal. On the same day, law enforcers also held Afghan war veteran Farid Uddin Masud, who was a leader of HuJI in Pakistain, Shibir cadre Mizanur Rahman, Death Eater leader Mahfuzur Rahman and 12 others, including four Pak nationals from the capital. "The tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Death Eater leaders directly and indirectly support the anti-government movement and they were working against the war crimes trial," Nazrul Islam Mollah, deputy commissioner of DB, told The Daily Star yesterday. "Among them, Mizanur and Mahfuzur had been playing a vital role in supplying bombs, as they have expertise in making bombs," he added. DB officials said the detained Pak nationals had close links with the Death Eater outfits in Pakistain and an intelligence agency of a neighbouring country. "They were playing roles of carrying and passing information to them," said a DB official. Former Jamaat-e-Islami leader Farid Uddin Ahammad had decided to revive Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI) in coordination with some Afghan war veterans, former Shibir cadres and leaders and activists of different Death Eater outfits, detectives say. Apart from establishing Khilafat in Bangladesh, he was backing the anti-government movement and obstructing the war crimes trial, they add. "Farid in his publications elaborated the ways of reviving HuJI, its reorganization and future activities," said a Detective Branch official close to the interrogation team. Quoting Farid the DB official, who spoke anonymously, said: "Farid opted for reviving HuJI as there are similarities in the ideologies of the HuJI in Bangladesh, Pakistain and Afghanistan." Since September last year, Farid built up communications with a dozen Afghan war veterans, a number of former and present Shibir cadres and many members of various Death Eater outfits like HuJI, Harkatul Mujahideen and Allahar Dal. Detectives on Friday arrested Farid, who is also known as the ideological guru of different Death Eater outfits like HuJI and Allahar Dal. On the same day, law enforcers also held Afghan war veteran Farid Uddin Masud, who was a leader of HuJI in Pakistain, Shibir cadre Mizanur Rahman, Death Eater leader Mahfuzur Rahman and 12 others, including four Pak nationals from the capital. "The detained Death Eater leaders directly and indirectly support the anti-government movement and they were working against the war crimes trial," Nazrul Islam Mollah, deputy commissioner of DB, told The Daily Star yesterday. "Among them, Mizanur and Mahfuzur had been playing a vital role in supplying bombs, as they have expertise in making bombs," he added. DB officials said the detained Pak nationals had close links with the Death Eater outfits in Pakistain and an intelligence agency of a neighbouring country. "They were playing roles of carrying and passing information to them," said a DB official. |
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Suspected adviser held | |
2012-01-25 | |
[Bangla Daily Star] A physician of a reputed hospital was tossed in the clink from the capital's Uttara in the early hours of yesterday on suspicion of being a policymaker of banned myrmidon Islamist organization Hizb-ut-Tahrir Bangladesh, said Rapid Action Battalion![]() Lt Col Ziaul Ahsan, director of the Rab intelligence wing, said the battalion tossed in the clink cardiac surgeon Dr Golam Haider Rasul, 45, a doctor of United Hospital, from his residence in Uttara Sector-3 around 1:30am, and large numbers of leaflets and books of the banned ...the word bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all... organization were recovered from his house. "Haider, who got his MBBS degree from Dhaka Medical College, was maintaining close connections with runaway Hizb-ut-Tahrir leaders Mawlana Mamunur Rashid, principal of a madrasa in the capital's Mohammadpur, and Dr Towfiq Elahi, a teacher of a prominent private university," said Lt Col Ziaul. He said Haider is also one of the major donors for Hizb-ut-Tahrir. Haider's wife and father are also doctors, he added. "During our preliminary interrogation, Haider admitted that he believes in Hizb-ut-Tahrir's politics," said the Rab's intelligence director, adding, "His father, Dr Golam Rasul, said he himself also supports the organization."
Talking to The Daily Star, Commander M Sohail of Rab's legal and media wing said, "We are trying to find out whether there are more Hizb-ut-Tahrir men in that hospital." Sources said Haider was tossed in the clink following a recent presser by Bangladesh Army in which it disclosed that there had been an attempt to overthrow the elected democratic government and that Hizb-ut-Tahrir had a link with the attempt. Lt Col Ziaul said, "There is a long list of top ranking leaders of the banned outfit who are skilled professionals like doctors, engineers, teachers, and successful businessmen." "Different other myrmidon organizations like Harkat-ul-Jihad Bangladesh, Hizb-ut-Tawhid, Allahar Dal, 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 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. , and Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... have links with Hizb-ut-Tahrir which is also patronised by some mainstream anti-government political parties," said Ziaul. In separate drives last week, Rab and police tossed in the clink at least 15 Hizb-ut-Tahrir leaders and activists including another doctor, and an IT expert of the Local Government Engineering Department. More than 500 Hizb-ut-Tahrir leaders and activists have been tossed in the clink since the organization was banned in 2009. | |
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24 Allahr Dal members arrested in Gaibandha |
2010-07-25 |
[Bangla Daily Star] Police arrested 24 members including two leaders of Allahar Dal, an Islamist outfit, in Rother Bazar village under Sadar upazila of the district yesterday. The arrestees were having a 'secret meeting' in the house of Haji Moinuddin, a member of the organisation, said Gaibandha Sadar thana police. Police also seized some books on Islamic revolution during the drive. The arrests were made following a tip-off from the villagers who objected to such meetings on every Saturday. During primary interrogation, the arrestees confessed that they are active members of the outfit and followers of Matin Mehdi, the kingpin of the organisation, now facing death sentence in a court verdict, police said. The Allahar Dal men will be produced before the court on Sunday with the prayer of a ten-day remand for each of them for further interrogation, said Gaibandha Superintendent of Police Mohammad Sahadat Hossain. Earlier, police arrested nine members of the outfit from Sadullapur and Gobindaganj upazilas last month. |
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4 militant outfits regrouping in SW |
2009-04-29 |
[Bangla Daily Star] At least four Islamist militant outfits including three banned ones are regrouping their cadres in twelve districts in the southwestern region of the country. As many as forty top ranking leaders along with their 10,000 cadres are working under the cover of different names. Sources of law enforcment agencies confirmed the attempt of regrouping based on information gleaned from 31 arrested militants of Hizb-ut Towhid in Kushtia last week. A total of 10 out of 31 arrested Hizb-ut Towhid men are now being interrogated by Kushtia police after Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court placed them on a four-day remand. Sources said the law enforcers are now trying to hunt down the chiefs of those outfits holed up in different districts. The outfits operating in the region are Allahr Dal, Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami (Huji) and Hizb-ut Towhid. The militants are mainly active in ten districts of Khulna division -- Kushtia, Meherpur, Jhenidah, Magura, Chuadanga, Jessore, Khulna, Narail, Bagerhat and Satkhira and in two districts of Dhaka division -- Rajbari and Faridpur. Allahar Dal and Hizb-ut Towhid are active in Kushtia, Meherpur, Jhenidah and Chuadanga, Huji in Jhneidah, Magura and Faridpur and JMB in Satkhira, Narail, Khulna, Jessore and Rajbari. Of the outfits, Hizb-ut Towhid is more active in several districts of Khulna division with around 1200 trained militants. The outfit has several dens in the division and is recruiting fresh members under supervision of its 10 top ranking leaders. Police have already extracted names of several leaders of Hizb-ut Towhid. They are Moulana Mahbub, in-charge of Kushtia and Chuadanga; Anisur Rahman, in-charge of Meherpur and Jhenidah and Mejbah Uddin, in-charge of Magura, sources said. Baiyezid Khan Panni of Tangail is currently leading Hiizb-ut Towhid and considered as Imam to his followers. Panni has written several books to indoctrinate his followers and he also distributes leaflets to preach his followers. According to police, during interrogation Hizb-ut Towhid men told them Bayezid Khan invited them to take preparation for a 'direct combat' against the man-made rules. Police said a large number of members and leaders of the organisation are well- trained and motivated. In some areas, the outfit is reportedly operating under the cover of Tablig Jamaat. |
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17 suspected militants held in Gaibandha |
2007-04-08 |
![]() The arrestees are Nizam Uddin, Ferdous, Rafiqul Islam, Jahangir Alam, Abu Bakker Siddique, Zahurul Islam, Sadequr Rahman, Mozahar Ali, Taslim Uddin, Laltu Mia, Anwarul Islam, Jahurul Alam, Salimuddin, Osman, Raju Mia, Nizamuddin and Tofazzal. Police said nine of the arrestees hail from Sunderganj upazila, while the rest from Gaibandha Sadar upazila. Locals said the Allahar Dal activists used to hold meetings at the house on Saturdays for two hours from 7:00am to 9:00am with its leader Nizamuddin in the chair. Nizamuddin told police that they carried out their activities in Dhaperhat under Sadullapur upazila for a few months. After being driven out from Dhaperhat by the locals, they took shelter at Malibari village. Police produced the arrested Allahar Dal activists before the court that sent them to jail. |
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