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Tarique okayed Huji plot

2011-08-22

[Bangla Daily Star] 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. leaders met Tarique Rahman a few days before the August 21 grenade attack in 2004 and got the go-ahead to stage the blasts. Lutfozzaman Babar, then state minister for home, Harris Chowdhury, political secretary to then prime minister Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... , Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, then NSI director general Brig Gen Abdur Rahim and DGFI director Brig Gen Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury were present at that meeting, held at Hawa Bhaban in the capital's Banani. The attack was the outcome of collaboration between HuJI, influential leaders of BNP and Jamaat, and some officials of the home ministry, police, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Prime Minister's Office (PMO). This is what Sherlocks have found in further probe and described in the supplementary charge sheet in the August 21 murder case. The Daily Star has lately obtained a copy of the charge sheet submitted in July. The August 21 blasts at an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue killed 24 leaders and workers including Ivy Rahman, wife of now President Zillur Rahman, and injured 300 others including Sheikh Hasina, now prime minister. According to the charges, leaders of banned Death Eater group Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI) had two meetings with Tarique, elder son of Khaleda and the then senior joint secretary general of BNP. Both were held at Hawa Bhaban, widely considered the alternative centre of power during the last BNP-Jamaat coalition rule. At the first meeting, in early 2004, HuJI leaders sought support in executing their plans to assassinate Sheikh Hasina and other top AL leaders. BNP politician Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad had helped arrange the meeting. Tarique assured the HuJI men of all-out support. At the second meeting, which took place in mid-August, he reiterated his assurance to HuJI boss Mufti Hannan and his associates. For the second meeting, HuJI leaders Mufti Hannan, Moulana Abu Taher, Moulana Sheikh Farid and Moulana Tajuddin went to Hawa Bhaban on a microbus of Al Markazul Islam, a non-government organization. Moulana Abdur Rashid of Al Markazul was with them, but he was left waiting on the ground floor when they went upstairs to meet Tarique. On August 18, three days before the attack, the HuJI leaders met Babar at the residence of former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu. Owner of Hanif transport Mohammad Hanif and BNP ward commissioner Ariful Islam Arif were present at the meeting. Babar and Pintu assured the Death Eater leaders that Hanif and Arif would help them in every way and that "they would receive all administrative assistance." The Arges grenades used in the attack were smuggled in from Pakistain. Tajuddin, Salam Pintu's brother, had supplied the grenades, which were taken to Mufti Hannan's Badda office from Pintu's Dhanmondi residence on August 20. The first charge sheet in the August 21 case was placed in 2008 against 22 people including Salam Pintu and 21 HuJI leaders and workers. The supplementary charge sheet was submitted on July 3, accusing 30 more people including Tarique, Babar, Harris and Mojaheed. It says some police officials deliberately did not take necessary security measures so that the perpetrators had no difficulty staging the blasts and fleeing the scene. The then Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Ashraful Huda, who later went on to become the Inspector General of Police, went abroad on the day of the attack without ordering adequate security arrangements for the AL rally. On his return, he did not take any punitive steps against the law enforcers who were negligent in their duties on the rally venue. The then IGP Shahudul Haque purposely did not update himself with the security measures taken on the rally venue. He did not even visit the scene after the attack, though it was only around 500 yards from his office. He also did not issue any directives to identify or arrest the perpetrators. Tajuddin, supplier of the grenades, left the country for Pakistain on instructions from Babar. Khaleda Zia was aware of this, continues the charge sheet. Tajuddin was given a fake passport with the name "Badal". Saiful Islam Duke, Khaleda's nephew and also private secretary, Duke's brother-in-law and DGFI official Lt Col Saiful Islam Joarder, and another top DGFI official Major Gen (rtd) ATM Amin had helped him flee the country on October 10, 2006.

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3 Huji men held for CPB rally blast

2010-03-15

[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested three suspected Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) members in connection with the bomb blasts that killed five people during a Communist Party of Bangladesh rally in 2001. Those arrested are Moulana Idris Ali, Moulana Abdul Latif and Sakhawat Hossain alias Dulal. Inspector Mrinal Kanti of the Criminal Investigation Department confirmed that Idris and Latif are suspects in the case. He said that Sakhawat will be questioned further to determine whether he is also an accused. Sakhawat and 11 other accused were previously cleared of involvement in the blasts when the former investigation officer submitted his final report. However Rab claims that the three men are Huji operatives and that they were accused in the case filed for the blasts went off on January 20, 2001 at Paltan Maidan in Dhaka that also wounded around 50 others. Sarwar Hossain, Sakhawat's brother-in-law, however claimed that Shakhawat was never involved with Huji. He also said his relative is the general secretary of Dhaka City CNG-Auto-rickshaw and Mishuk Sramik Union as well as publicity secretary of Bhashantek Punarbashan Prokalpa Sangram Parishad (BPPSP). Sakhawat was also the former secretary of Dhaka city's central committee of Jatiya Party (Manju's) labour front, the Jatiya Sramajibi Party. Mishuk Sramik Union President FA Khan Firoz, also adviser of Dhaka City CNG-Auto-rickshaw Union, said that a Rab team picked Sakhawat up on February 16 from Bhashantek. Firoz alleges that a developer of 'Bhashantek Rehabilitation Project' might influence Rab to arrest Shakhawat as he, under the banner of BPPSP, organised slum dwellers protesting their eviction from the project area by the developer. BPPSP leaders also brought the same allegation against the developer at a press conference in the city on March 3. The government awarded a work to the developer to construct flats for middle and lower income people after its decision in September 2003. A team from the Rab intelligence wing captured the three men during a five-hour raid from 12:30 am yesterday at Krishimarket, Town Hall and Dhaka Uddyan in Mohammadpur. Sources in Huji said that Idris was a member of Huji and Latif was a trainer of explosives of the banned militant organisation. The two men were previously arrested for their involvement in various deadly attacks. When they were released on bail they both absconded. Commander Sohail, legal and media wing director of Rab, told a press conference at its headquarters in Uttara that the three arrestees are number 2, 20 and 22 accused in the case, which has 24 suspects. Asked about Shakhawat, the Rab director said in primary interrogation Shakhawat admitted that he is a member of Huji. He also that now only Moulana Monir remains at large. Law enforcers started a fresh move to arrest all suspects accused of politically-motivated violence following instructions to do so from the home ministry. Detained Idris is a relative of detained Huji Dhaka City unit president Moulana Abu Taher and Moulana Tajuddin, who supplied grenades that were used in the attack on an Awami League rally on 21 August 2004. Idris is the brother-in-law of Arif Hasan Sumon, who is also an accused in the CPB blasts case. Following the bomb attack, CPB President Manjurul Ahsan Khan filed a case with Motijheel police station. A top Huji leader, Mufti Abdul Hannan, as well as several other members have been arrested for their involvement in the bomb blasts. Two Indian nationals and Lasker-e-Taiba members have also been arrested and are currently on remand for interrogation.

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Hand of admin in August 21 attack

2009-10-03

[Bangla Daily Star] Despite hints in the charge sheet that administration under the BNP-Jamaat alliance might have aided and abetted the August 21 grenade blasts, no investigation has been done along that line. The 41-page charge sheet submitted 15 months back suggests that Abdus Salam Pintu, a former BNP deputy minister, had assured Huji leaders of administrative help in carrying out the attack to kill Sheikh Hasina. He gave the assurance at a meeting at his residence three days before the blasts that left 23 people killed and over 300 injured at an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004. The charge sheet however does not elaborate on the finding which crime experts say surely warrants further probe. Investigation from this angle, the experts believe, might help unmask the masterminds behind the August 21 carnage. Ending a long drama over enquiry into the attack, Criminal Investigation Department pressed charges against 21 leaders and activists of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami and Salam Pintu on June 9 last year. After AL-led grand alliance came to power in January, the prosecution prayed for further investigation to unearth the sources and supplier of the grenades used in the attack. The court granted permission for more probe, and CID's Abdul Kahar Akand has been assigned to do the job. ASM Shahjahan, former caretaker government adviser who also served as inspector general of police, told The Daily Star, "If the investigation officer thinks the point [mentioned in the charge sheet] should be probed, he can do it by informing the court or taking permission from it." He can seek to find out what the charge sheet means by "administrative support" and if anyone did lend administrative support to the attackers, Shahjahan added. According to the charge sheet, Moulana Abu Taher, president of Dhaka city Huji, took fellow Huji leaders Mufti Abdul Hannan and Ahsan Ullah Kajal to the then deputy minister Pintu's Dhanmondi house to discuss the plot. Pintu's brother Moulana Tajuddin, an absconding accused in August 21 case, was also present at the meeting where Pintu said Hasina has to be killed. Pledging funds and manpower, he said "prosashonik sohaiota" (administrative support) too would be given to pull off the plot. Anisul Huq, an expert on criminal laws, told The Daily Star, the extent of the then government's involvement in the ghastly attack may be known if the investigators could make out the ex-deputy minister's expression "proshashonik shohaiota". The expression suggests the administration had either sought to make the attack successful or shield the masterminds and perpetrators from investigation. The dubious role of police and intelligence personnel at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21 supports that kind of thinking. Citing Hasina's statement to the investigation officer, the charge sheet said members of the Special Branch fired a few rounds to counter the attack, but the DMP team assigned to ensure her security did nothing. The police men on duty were rather hampering her retreat from the scene. They were firing tear gas shells and bullets as her SUV was heading towards Zero Point through the road on west side of the Outer Stadium. Some experts and analysts say the words "administrative help" can be interpreted in many ways. It is significant when a minister speaks of providing administrative help. It adds weight to AL's allegations that some influential people in the then government had a hand in the blasts. Besides the controversial role of the law enforcers during and before the attack, there is the issue of attempts to prevent a fair investigation in the August 21 blasts case. Three CID officials including two former IOs face criminal charges for misleading the probe. Experts say the investigators should see if the bid to divert the course of investigation was part of the administrative help Pintu had pledged to the Huji top brass. Following a probe under supervision of Lutfozzaman Babar, state minister for home at that time, police arrested 20 people including Shaibal Saha Partha, a student, and AL leader Mokhlesur Rahman for suspected links to the bloodbath. However, none of them who had to endure harassment and torture was found guilty in the latest investigation. The farce over August 21 probe culminated in the BNP-Jamaat-led government claiming that a criminal gang had staged the attack. The basis of their claim was so-called confession of Joj Miah, Abul Hashem alias Rana and Shafiqul Islam. Fakhruddin Ahmed-led caretaker administration later found those confessional statements to have been obtained under duress. Moreover, the CID investigators and supervising officer concerned were found to have paid Joj Miah's family for the statement. The one-member judicial probe committee of Justice Joynul Abedin went as far as to see a "foreign enemy country's involvement" in the incident. The charge sheet however has nothing to bear out his claim. Speaking about the charge sheet at a press briefing in June last year, the then CID Chief Additional Inspector General Jabed Patwari said Huji carried out the attack to kill Hasina as it believed she would harm Islam if alive and in power. Except Salam Pintu, all accused are Huji leaders and activists. Pintu has been included as an accused in the charge sheet as he met the attackers twice at his residence to discuss the blasts plan. Contacted, the third IO of the case who pressed the charges declined to talk about the matter.

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Grenade suppliers gone missing

2009-08-04

[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday ordered further investigation into the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally, stating that the investigation conducted earlier could not identify the collectors and suppliers of grenades used in the attack. The court ordered the inspector general of police to conduct the investigation and submit the report to the court within two months. The order came after a state lawyer, seeking further investigation into the two cases filed in connection with the attack on the rally on Bangabandhu Avenue, submitted two petitions before the court. Awami League President Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the attack but 23 of her party leaders and workers were killed and over 300 were maimed. The lawyer in the petitions, submitted on June 25, said influential people who had supplied the grenades are still untraced. After hearing the petitions on three days, Judge Masdar Hossain of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 passed the orders. During the rule of four-party government, the investigation officers misdirected the probe by detaining one Juj Miah and forcing him to give false confessional statement, the judge said. It was not possible for them, who were earlier arrested in this connection and had given confessional statements, to have had carried out the attack since they could not give any details on the attack, he said. A total of 61 prosecution witnesses had earlier given their statements but they did not mention who were the planners and patrons. So the real culprits are still at large, the judge said. The judge further said that the prosecution only to find out the fact filed the petitions. So the order for further investigation was given to establish justice for both parties, the judge added. Defence lawyers for detained accused Pintu opposed the petitions saying the prosecution had filed those only to implicate several other BNP leaders and activists. After the order, a defence lawyer told reporters, "The unprecedented order was issued ignoring our arguments." Of the 22 accused in the cases, 14 are now behind bars, including Pintu, Hannan and his brother Mohibullah, Moulana Abu Sayeed, Moulana Abu Taher, Mufti Moinuddin Sheikh alias Abu Zandal. The eight absconding accused are Pintu's brothers Tajuddin and Moulana Liton, Anisul Mursalin and his brother Mahibul Muttakin, Iqbal, Moulana Abu Bakar alias Selim Howlader, Jahangir Alam Badar and Khalilur Rahman. The Criminal Investigation Department, which had misdirected the investigation during the reign of BNP-Jamaat-led four-party alliance government, finally pressed charges in June last year accusing 21 members of Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (Huji) including its top leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and BNP leader and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu. In the charge sheet, the CID only mentioned Tajuddin, brother of Pintu, as the supplier of the grenades. The CID investigators could not find out who gave him the grenades and how. Meanwhile, Indian national Moulana Mansur Ali, an organiser of Kashmir-based militant outfit Asif Reza Commando Force, disclosed to investigators that one of its leaders from India had given the grenades to Tajuddin in person, said officials of Detective Branch of police.

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ARCF supplied grenades for Aug 21 attack

2009-08-01

[Bangla Daily Star] Kashmir-based militant outfit Asif Reza Commando Force (ARCF), which works together with Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), supplied grenades to LeT Bangladesh chapter leader Moulana Tajuddin for the August 21 attack in 2004. This was revealed by detained LeT leader Indian national Moulana Mansur Ali as the government pushes for further investigation into the grisly attack particularly to unearth if any influential quarters supplied the grenades. Mansur, who is also an ARCF organiser, told Detective Branch (DB) during interrogation that an ARFC leader, who is also from India, directly handed over the grenades to Tajuddin, brother of detained former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu. The investigators however did not reveal the Indian national's name for the sake of investigation. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in its charge sheet only mentioned that Tajuddin had supplied the grenades. But the CID investigators could not find out who handed over the grenades to him and how. Chief Public Prosecutor Syed Rezaur Rahman on June 25 submitted a prayer to a Dhaka court for further investigation into the attack, which aimed to assassinate AL President Sheikh Hasina in 2004. Rahman in his prayer argued that experts and influential people who had supplied the grenades were still untraced. The court which has already heard the prayer on three dates has fixed August 3 for an order in this regard. "We're expecting more important leads from Mansur on the suppliers of grenades used in the August 21 attack," said a top detective on the understanding of anonymity. The grisly attack on Hasina's rally on Bangabandhu Avenue killed 23 AL leaders and workers and maimed over 300 others. The investigators say both ARCF and LeT have close links to the leaders of Harkatul Jihad al Islam (Huji) Bangladesh chapter and work together in the country. Mansur, who was living in Bangladesh for around 17 years with fake identity and serving as a madrasa teacher, also said most of the grenade throwers at the AL rally were Afghan war veterans having expertise in handling explosives, the sources add. Quoting Mansur, DB sources say the grenades were smuggled into the country through Satkhira border. The other detained LeT leader Mufti Obaidullah was also hiding in Bangladesh for 14 years assuming false identity and was serving as a madrasa teacher. DB Assistant Commissioner Sanwar Hossain, who arrested the two Indian militants, told The Daily Star, "Mansur said ARCF leaders led by a moulana handed over the grenades to Tajuddin." Quoting Mansur, Sanwar also said most of the grenade throwers were Afghan war veterans with skills in handling explosives. He added some others who took part in the attack were not fighters but were trained up by the war veterans. The CID submitted the charge sheet in the grenade attack case on June 11 last year accusing 22 people including Abdus Salam Pintu and Huji leader Mufti Hannan. According to the charge sheet, apart from Pintu, all other accused are Huji leaders and activists. Of them, 14 are now behind bars, including Pintu, Mufti Hannan and his brother Mohibullah, Moulana Abu Sayeed, Moulana Abu Taher, Mufti Moinuddin Sheikh alias Abu Zandal. The eight absconding accused are Pintu's brothers Tajuddin and Moulana Liton, Anisul Mursalin and his brother Mahibul Muttakin, Iqbal, Moulana Abu Bakar alias Selim Howlader, Jahangir Alam Badar and Khalilur Rahman.

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Mufti Hannan, 13 other Huji men charged

2008-12-01

Over seven and a half years after the Ramna Batamul blast, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday pressed charges against 14 operatives of banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (Huji) in two cases filed for the carnage. CID Inspector Abu Hena Mohammad Yusuf, investigation officer (IO) in both cases, submitted the charge sheets before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka. The bloodbath that took place during Pahela Baishakh celebrations on April 14, 2001 left 10 people dead and scores injured. Of the cases filed with Ramna Police Station, one was for murder and the other for possession and use of explosive substances. At a press briefing following the submission of charge sheets, CID chief Additional Inspector General Mohammad Javed Patwari said some 22 Huji members were directly involved in the blast. But charges have been pressed against 14 as addresses of the remaining eight were not found. A supplementary charge sheet, he added, would be submitted against the eight after getting their full addresses. The charge-sheeted accused are Mufti Abdul Hannan Munshi alias Abul Kalam, Arif Hasan Suman alias Abdur Razzak, Moulana Akbar Hossain alias Helaluddin, Shahadat Ullah alias Jewel, Moulana Abu Taher, Moulana Abdur Rauf, Moulana Mohammad Tajuddin, Moulana Abdul Hannan Sabbir, Moulana Shawkat Osman alias Sheikh Farid, Hafez Jahangir Alam Badar, Moulana Abu Bakar alias Selim Hawlader, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Moulana Yahiya and Mufti Abdul Hye. Of them, Hannan, Suman, Akbar, Jewel, Abu Taher and Rauf are behind bars and the others are still at large. CID sources said the six Huji detainees stand accused in some other blast cases as well. Akbar, Mufti Hannan and Jewel have confessed to a court their involvement in the attacks including the August 21 grenade blasts on an Awami League rally. The additional inspector general said the Huji members had planned the attack at their headquarters and Saat Gambuz Mosque, both located in the city's Mohammadpur area. Suman, Jewel, Johnny and Sujan carried the bombs to Ramna Park that day. Posing as decorators, they entered through the gate adjacent to the National Tennis Complex at around 4:00am. Johnny detonated the bomb by remote control. The CID chief said Ramna Batamul, where people pour in to celebrate the Bengali New Year, had been chosen as the target because the Huji considers Pahela Boishakh revels anti-Islamic. The bombs were supplied by Moulana Tajuddin. Former deputy minister and BNP leader Abdus Salam Pintu's younger brother, he also supplied grenades for the August 21 grenade attack.

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Huji man Suman remanded for link to Ramna Batamul blast

2008-04-29

Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) leader Arif Hasan Suman was taken on three-day remand yesterday by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in connection with the bomb explosion at Ramna Batamul during Pahela Boishakh celebration on April 14, 2001. Earlier on April 25, Suman gave confessional statement about his involvement in the grenade attack on an Awami League rally on August 21 in 2004. Wonder how many times the RAB waterboarded him before he 'confessed' ... No waterboard required. Just have Big Mahmoud awaken the prisoner at 2 a.m. and tell him he's going for a ride. He'll tell you anything you want to know, probably anything you want to hear. And then you take him for a ride anyway ... CID officials in the forwarding report said as Suman admitted his involvement in the Batamul bomb explosion, he should be remanded for more information. CID Inspector Abu Mohammad Yusuf prayed for 10-day remand but the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Shahnaz Sultana granted three days. Sources from CID and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) said they were not satisfied with the information given by Suman about his involvement in the grenade attack on the AL rally. Rab sources said they would take Suman to the Taskforce for Interrogation (TFI) cell for squeezing out more information. "He's coming back! Get another five gallon jug!" According to sources, the charge sheet in the August 21 grenade attack case would be submitted in the first week of May accusing around 25 people including former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, Huji leader Mufti Hannan, Abdur Rouf, Moulana Tajuddin, Arif Hassan Suman, Moulana Abdul Latif, Moulana Monir, Moulana Idris, Moulana Abu Taher, Waliur-1 and Waliur-2. Sure are a lot of Moulanas in that bunch. Meanwhile, Dr Zafar, arrested in connection with the bomb explosion at a rally of Communist Party of Bangladesh at Paltan Maidan on January 20 in 2001, was taken on three-day remand. He is also an accused in the August 21 grenade attack case and was shown arrested in the Paltan Maidan bomb explosion. In the case Huji boss Mufti Hannan is also an accused. Earlier on December 17, 2003, CID submitted the final report. But following the government directive, investigation into the cases was restarted.

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2 more Huji men held for link to Aug 21, Ramna blasts

2007-11-28

Police yesterday arrested two wanted Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (Huji) operatives in the city for their suspected links to the August 21 grenade attacks on an Awami League rally in 2004 and Ramna Batamul blasts in 2001. Police arrested the two, Maulana Mohammad Monir Hossain, 35, and Maulana Mohammad Idris, 30, at around 11:00am after a raid on a student mess in Zakir Hossain Road in Mohammadpur. Police said both the arrested are active members of Huji. Sources in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said Monir Hossain is a brother of another Huji leader Moulana Abu Taher who is now on police remand for involvement in the August 21 grenade blasts case. The CID started a manhunt after Huji operations commander Mufti Abdul Hannan in his confessional statement mentioned that Monir introduced him to Moulana Taijuddin who supplied Hannan with grenades used in the August 21 blasts. Taijuddin who is now a fugitive, suspected to be in hiding in South Africa, is the brother of a BNP leader and a former deputy minister. Taijuddin who is now a fugitive, suspected to be in hiding in South Africa, is the brother of a BNP leader and a former deputy minister. CID Inspector Abu Hena Mohammad Yusuf, who is the investigation officer of the case, in his forwarding report said Mufti Hannan in his confessional statement recorded on November 19 last year mentioned that Monir and Idris were present in the meeting where the plan for the bomb blasts at Ramna Batamul were sketched. He asked that the arrested two be remanded for 10 days each for interrogation but the Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Al-Mamun granted them five days remand. In his confessional statement Mufti Hannan had also said that seven Huji operatives, including two Dhaka College students, Hasan and Omar Faruq, carried out the attacks on the Pahela Baishakh celebrations at Ramna Batamul in 2001. The others are Abu Taher, Sheikh Farid, Abu Bakar, Yeahia and Abdul Hye. Hannan had also said that the grenades used in the attack had been smuggled into Bangladesh and that one Taijuddin, owner of a wire factory at Chakbazar in Old Dhaka, supplied the grenades and bombs.

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