SECOND EDITION
MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2016
NARAYANGANJ RAID
Two militants identified as Rabbi, Tausif Rahman Rabbi n Arifur and Tanveer Hossain, Narayanganj Police have identified Jessore native Kazi Fazle Rabbi and Dhaka's Dhanmondi resident Tausif Hossain as the two militants who were killed along with suspected Gulshan attack mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury during Saturday's raid in Narayanganj. The chief of DMP's Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, Monirul Islam, confirmed the names to the Dhaka Tribune. “We found a national identity card in Rabbi’s pocket that helped us in identifying him,” Monirul said. PAGE 2 COLUMN 5
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Tausif was friends with Nibras n Kamrul Hasan One of the militants killed during Saturday’s Narayanganj raid, Tausif Hossain, was friends with one of the Gulshan attackers, Nibras Islam, and both men ran away from home on the same day – February 3 this year. Tausif, who completed his O Level and A Level from Maple Leaf International School, was reportedly a student at a Malaysian university, similar to Nibras. The last time Tausif spoke to his parents at their Dhanmondi home, he told them he was going out for lunch with his friends including Nibras, said Dhanmondi police station Officer-in-Charge Nur-e-Azam Mia. Tausif’s father filed a general diary on February 5 reporting him as missing, the OC said. On February 9, Tausif was named as a person of interest in a first information report (FIR) filed
with Shahbagh police after three suspected militants were arrested. Those three have now gone into hiding after securing bail from the High Court. Tausif was the seventh missing person on the list of suspected militants released by RAB on August 9. The first week of February was also the same time when several other young militants, who active-
ly took part or participated in the plotting of recent terrorist attacks, ran away from home. They included two other Gulshan attackers Rohan Imtiaz and Meer Saameh Mubasher, as well Sholakia attacker Abeer Rahman, and Kallyanpur militant Shazad Rouf Arko. All of them are now dead – killed during police offensives. Sources in law enforcement agencies told the Dhaka Tribune that all of these missing youths had stayed together in a Jhenaidah mess before carrying out the Gulshan and Sholakia attacks.
‘No one visited Tausif at home’
The Dhaka Tribune visited Tausif’s Dhanmondi house yesterday, but found that his parents had left the place on Saturday night. Nannu Miah, the caretaker of the building, said Tausif’s father Dr Ajmal Hossain and his mother Farida Hossain hurriedly left the house
without carrying any bag. However, Nannu said he had no idea about where they might have gone. Nannu said Tausif used to return home from his studies in Malaysia every six months or so, and usually left again after a month. During his stays in Dhaka, Tausif mostly stayed inside, only heading out to coaching in the afternoon, Nannu said, adding that Tausif was carrying a backpack on the day he ran away from home. Asked if any of Tausif’s friends visited the Dhanmondi house, Nannu said no one ever came over. Nannu, who has been working at the building for the last seven years, described Tausif as a polite boy who never misbehaved. Golam Ali, who is an employee of a company located in the same building, said he knew Tausif personally and it has come as a shock to all that such a polite boy could be involved in such militant activity. l