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Download PDF While in service, detained army lance corporal (retd) Shamsul Islam, mastermind of Brahmanbaria bomb explosion, used to pay monthly contributions to outlawed Harkat-ul-jihad-Al-Islam (Huji) for carrying out its activities.
A highly placed source in Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday said Shamsul had often visited the den of Huji leader Abdur Rouf at Bhaluka in Mymensingh where he also took lessons on jihad.
Shamsul yesterday made a statement before the additional judicial magistrate in Brahmanbaria confessing his involvement in militancy and visit to Rouf’s den.
In the six-page statement he said he had also close connection with Huji leader Mufti Abdul Hannan, prime suspect in several deadly grenade attack cases including the August 21 grenade attack.
Rouf is also an accused of the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in 2004 that left 24 killed and scores other injured.
He served as a commander of Huji in Arakan in Myanmar between 1994 and 1998 and was sacked from the organisation in 1998.
He later formed Tanjim-e-Tamiruddin in 2005 but as intelligence agencies learned about its suspected activities, he renamed it Hijbe Abu Omar in the early 2006. He was arrested on August 2 the same year.
Rab arrested Shamsul with his four associates on April 26 in Brahmanbaria. They are Tajul Islam Al Mahmud alias Baba Tajul, Mizanur Rahman, Jamal Miah and Saiful Islam. Of them, Jamal also gave confessional statement before the magistrate.
All the five arrestees were sent to Brahmanbaria jail yesterday.
Meanwhile, both Rab and police sources said the arrestees revealed important information regarding militancy, jihad and arms and ammunition.
Rab Additional Director General Col Gulzar Uddin Ahmed yesterday said: “As they revealed important information, we are trying to take the five suspects to the Taskforce for Interrogation (TFI) cell for more quizzing.”
“We should identify the source of explosives and firearms recovered abandoned following the explosion on April 13,” the Rab ADG said.
Rab and police sources said in the confessional statement, Shamsul also said he had trained up other militants, who are also his associates, on how to make grenades and bombs and how to use those.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
How one can call one the true follower of Islam & follow exremism.
All true Muslims must follow the peaceful ways of Prophet Mohammed(MSA) .
Unruly & extremism & attacking innocent people must be avoided by all true Muslims!