Vadro 2, 1421 Shawal 20, 1435 Regd. No. DA 6238 Vol 2, No 135
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Snatching of three convicted JMB leaders was a wakeup call Islam Shaon and n Ashif Rafe Sadnan Adel The law enforcers earlier claimed that they had broken the backbone of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), which came up with much-unprecedented scale of terror attacks including the simultaneous blasts of 459 time bombs in 63 districts on August 17, 2005. But it did not happen, apparently because of the ongoing regrouping efforts carried out secretly by the organisers of the group, which was banned on February 13, 2005.
‘Due to manpower shortage, the RAB is not as capable as it was in the past’ In the recent times, the JMB has again become a matter of concern for the law enforcers, especially after the snatching of its three convicted leaders from police custody in Trishal, Mymensingh in February this year. Moreover, three JMB members were arrested in the capital’s Sayedabad area on July 30 with huge explosives in their possessions. Detectives quoting the arrestees said at least four businessmen in Dhaka were financing the revival of the banned outfit. With the money, the JMB has bought land in Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar areas, and set up camps to train its new members. These incidents suggest that the banned outfit is still active with the
capability to carry out devastating attacks. Sources in the law enforcement agencies say the JMB men have chosen the northern districts to reorganise the group while security experts said it had also concentrated on the hilly areas and was using the members of the Rohingya community to spread its new network. For the law enforcement agencies, the Trishal incident was a wakeup call, and now they admit that the outfit is trying to be reorganise. They claim that two of the three JMB leaders snatched from a police van in Trishal have been regrouping the outfit from hideout. The other died in a shootout soon after the snatching incident. In the new format of plan, they are training the newly-recruited youths on the use of small arms instead of bombs. Detectives in 2009 said the JMB had close links with the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), an insurgent group in the Arakan state of Myanmar. Senior leaders of the JMB had received training from the RSO’s arms experts in a camp near the Myanmar border in 2002. Executed JMB chief Shayakh Abdur Rahman had sent his men for the training. In exchange for the firearms lessons, the JMB trained Rohingyas to improvise and set off bombs. Harkatul-Jihad-al Islami (Huji) Bangladesh, another outlawed Islamist outfit, too had strong connections with the RSO. Talking to the Dhaka Tribune last night, RAB Additional Director General Col Ziaul Ahsan also acknowledged that the JMB was reorganising. PAGE 2 COLUMN 1
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Just like every year, a floating guava market sits on a canal near the Bhimruli Bazar in Jhalakathi district yesterday. The fruit is sent across the country from here
500 children fall victim to porn ring n Tribune Desk At least 500 children were sexually abused by a children’s books author recently arrested for his alleged involvement in an international child pornography ring, BBC Bangla reported citing police sources. In June this year, police arrested children’s book writer, Tipu Kibria, and three of his associates from Dhaka. Police officials said they had been involved in producing child pornography using young boys lured or coerced from slums and other areas. Police said they were able to identify 13 people in eight countries who had bought the pornographic videos from
In Iraq, jihadists ‘massacre’ Yazidi villagers as world ups response n AFP Details emerged yesterday of a “massacre” carried out by jihadists in a northern Iraq village, as world powers ramped up efforts to cut their funding, arm Kurds battling them and assist those they displaced. Dozens of civilians were killed, most of them followers of the Yazidi faith, officials said as the Islamic State group fighters pressed their offensive against minority groups in the north. Militants entered Kocho village on Friday and “committed a massacre”, senior Iraqi official Hoshyar Zebari told AFP, citing sources from the region and intelligence reports. “Around 80 of them have been killed,” he said. A senior official of one of Iraq’s main Kurdish parties said 81 people had lost their lives, while a Yazidi activist said the death toll could be even higher.
The village lies near the northwestern town of Sinjar, which the jihadists stormed on August 3 sending tens of thousands of civilians, many of them Yazidi Kurds, fleeing into the mountains to its north. They hid there for days with little food or water. Fear of an impending genocide against the Yazidi minority, whose faith is anathema to the Sunni Muslim extremists, was one of the reasons Washington cited for air strikes it began on August 8. US President Barack Obama declared the Mount Sinjar siege over on Thursday but vulnerable civilians remain in areas taken by the jihadists, including Yazidi Kurds. In Kocho, Zebari said the jihadists “took their revenge on its inhabitants, who happened to be mostly Yazidis who did not flee their homes.” Human rights groups and residents say IS PAGE 2 COLUMN 2
INSIDE B1 | Business
The railway division plans to use its land for commercial purpose to reduce its huge losses being incurred years after years.
3 | News
The Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) is set to import 110,000 tonnes of refined fuel oil from Vietnam at a moderate premium, as compared to previous contracts, for the second half (July–December) of this year.
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A total of 106 drug smuggling godfathers, with around 500 drug peddlers under their command, have been conducting drugrelated business at 274 spots in the port city of Chittagong.
6 | Nation
The roads and embankments in Mothbaria upazila of Pirojpur have been severely damaged because of heavy tides caused by the recent full moons, making the lives of people very difficult.
the arrested persons, and paid for them through Western Union. After more than two months of investigation, police unearthed the ring led by Tipu Kibria, whose real name is TIM Fakhruzzaman, that lured or coerced at least 500 boys to perform in pornographic films over the past nine years. Most of the victims were street children. The videos were delivered to customers on the internet. A person connected with the business of selling the pornography was also arrested. A child victim was rescued at the time of the arrest. BBC Bangla quoted Additional Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Shah Alam
of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) as saying the arrestees had been involved in child pornography since 2005 and the number of victims might be as many as five hundred. The DIG told the BBC that police would seek help from Interpol to identify the foreign suspects. The police official said they were on the brink of identifying a major international child pornography network. The police official said one or two new boys became victims of the gang every month. Police seized a huge number of photographs, videos, film-making equipment, hard disks, documents and other PAGE 2 COLUMN 6
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BNP asks activists not to chant anti-government slogans n Mohammad Al-Masum Molla There was not much speculation ahead of the BNP-led alliance’s “black-flag procession” yesterday to protest Israeli atrocities in Gaza, even though it was the alliance’s first major political programme since the January 5 elections. Interestingly, contrary to the common perception that the BNP was not organised enough to mount a strong popular movement at this time, the gathering was quite impressive. PAGE 2 COLUMN 2