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Ahab men on the run, JMJB flouts ban

2 more JMB members arrested

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
When leaders and diehard workers ofAhle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh (Ahab) are going into hiding to avoid arrest, many Jagrata Muslim )anata, Bangladesh (JMJB) activists are still in action in Bagmara flouting the banontheiroutfit.
Not only in Rajshahi, Ahab members in Khulna and Satkhira have also been fleeing their homes and madrases following the arrest of theiramirDrMuhammadAsadullah
Al Galib, an Arabic teacher at Rajshahi University, and his three top aides last Wednesday.
Panic gripped Ahab operatives yesterday as a large contingent of paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) was deployed at Salafi Madrasa and teams of Armed Police Battalion kept vigil at almost all Ahab mosques and madrasas in Rajshalii division from a suspicion that Ahab might launch retaliatory agitation after Juma prayers.
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reported yesterday that some 50 JMJB men gathered in a meeting at the house of a fundamentalist leader in Bhabaniganj Bazar on Thursday noon.
A lecturer at a women's college of Bagmara chaired the meeting. The report however did not mention any name.
Sources in Bagmara said JMJB leaders in many areas have been seen to organising their fellow workers. Among them are JMJB Bagmara unit president Lutfar Rahman, a professor at Atrai Mollah Azad Memorial College, who led the group's Rajshahi march on May 23 last year, Sakoa college teacher Shahidullah, Bhabaniganj college teachers Abed Ali, Abdur Razzak and Kalimuddin, Ibrahim of Jhikra and Akkas of Goalkandi.
JMJB was banned along with JMB concurrently with Galib's arrest on Wednesday.
NO LEGAL ACTION AGAINST AHAB YET
Since Wednesday's crackdown, police neither have arrested any other associate of Galib, the suspected kingpin of Islamist militants in the western region, nor have seized any document from Galib's office or Ahab-run madrasas. According to sources, lists of Ahab-affiliated madrasa teachers including several mujahids (crusaders) trained abroad and specially chosen imams and muezzins of Ahab mosques are there among the documents.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) at the moment also do not plan any further legal action against Galib, his second-incommand Ahab Nayeb-e-Amir Shaikh Abdus Samad Salafi, General Secretary Moulana Nurul Islam and Organising Secretary ASM Azizullah held early Wednesday.
"The arrests were made on secret directives from government high-ups and according to requisitions from three police stations outside Rajshahi. We [RMP] are not involved in the actions to follow their arrests. Every thing is running as per the decisions made in the capital," said a top-level source at RMP.
Shah Mokhdum Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Aslam Iqbal told The Daily Star that Galib and his associates were arrested under Section 54 of the CrPC on suspected involvement in a number of cases filed with different police station. Among the cases are one on murder and one on a bomb attack filed with Shahjahanpur Police Station, one bomb attack case with Gabtali Police Station and a robbery case with Kotalipara Police Station in Bogra and Gopalganj districts.
Iqbal said Galib's aides were held on suspected involvement
with the Kotalipara robbery only.
"The police stations concerned will take the necessary legal actions. RMP also can do the same if instructed to," said the RMP source.
HOW AHAB WORKS
Every student of any of the nearly 700 Ahab madrasas across the country must work for a suitable front organisation of Ahab, sources said yesterday.
For example, students up to Class Seven would work with Sonamoni, the children's wing of Ahab, while students of upper classes would work with Ahle Hadith Jubo Shangha, Ahab's youth wing, until they are mature enough to be an Ahab member, said Hussain, an Alim student at Salafi Madrasa.
Besides, Ahab has its own process of recruiting imams and muezzins for its mosques. "Anyone can't be an imam at our mosques. Our imams are trained on how to bring about a social revolution through preaching and recruit new members," said a teacher at Salafi Madrasa.
Sources at intelligence agencies said the Ahab mosques built with the funds from Hayatul Igachha of Saudi Arabia and Revival of Islamic Heritage Society of Kuwait are used as the strongholds of the JMB led by Abdur Rahman.
GALIB ON JIHAD
Ahab Amir Galib advocates an armed struggle to bring about an Islamic revolution in the country, according to a book on jihad authored by Galib that The Daily Star obtained yesterday.
The book titled 'Daoat O Jihad' is a transcription of a speech Galib delivered at a conference of Ahab in 1991. At its end, he said, "At every village, there will be a team of mujahids committed to reconstructing the society and reforming their personal, family and social lives according to the dictums of the Holy Qur'an and Hadith... We want pure Islamic politics, not political Islam".
In the speech, he named many past and present-day mujahids and narrated their heroic deeds to inspire his audience for an armed struggle.
SALAFI PATH
Galib have been running a monthly magazine titled 'At-Tahreek' for eight years. In the Internet edition of the magazine, Ahab claims to follow the 'Salafi Path'.
Talking to newsmen earlier, Galib and Abdus Samad Salafi had claimed themselves as believers in Salafi movement.
Alliance for Security (AoS), a programme run by Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, said in its website that the majority of over 30 million Salafi Movement adherents are peaceful. But a minority section of the Salafi followers believe in violence to stage an Islamic revolution.
Salafis have influenced a number of radical movements in Algeria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. More recently, in countries like Afghanistan, Chechnya and Iraq, the Salafi movement has been growing and gaining strength.
Their power has expanded beyond national borders, for they now have regional influence, the AoS website says. Their ideologues include figures like Abdullah Azam, an inspiration to Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
2 MORE ARRESTS
Two JMB members were arrested in a house at Kagmari village in Shibganj upazila of Chapai-nawabganj in the early hours yesterday, reports BSS.
Police said Qaree Nazrul, a teacher at Shibganj Hajardighi Islamia Madrasa, and Nurul Islam, a teacher at Chandpur Dakhil Madrasa, were held on the basis of information provided by some people arrested earlier in other northeastern districts.
Police produced the two before a court yesterday and the court sent them to jail.