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STRING OF BOMB BLASTS

Kingpins remain out of dragnet

Arrestees to be quizzed at JIC today

Staff Correspondent
Intelligence agencies start quizzing the arrestees today in connection with the August 17 nationwide explosions at the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) in Dhaka to identify the mastermind and the motive of the attacks, investigators said.
Members of different law
enforcement and intelligence agencies are continuing massive hunts across the country to arrest the suspects. But no kingpins of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), which claimed responsibility for the attacks, could be trapped.
Intelligence officials said they have started gathering the suspects arrested in the last two days in
Dhaka where they will be interrogated intensively at JIC.
The officials said they are trying to find out if other Islamist militant groups indulging Harkatul Jihad were involved in the attacks.
"We've already started quizzing those who have already been brought to Dhaka. We'll intensively interrogate them today and tomorrow," said an investigator asking not to be identified.
The investigators are focusing on the alleged link between the attackers and international terrorist outfits and the source of their money.
Farrukh Ahmed, head of the national investigation, said officers are still gathering evidence and information from the suspects, who have arrived in Dhaka. "Hopefully we will find out the culprits very soon," he was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
"We're confident that after interrogating all the suspects from all these districts we can find the root of all this. It's now a matter of time," Farrukh added.
Detective Branch (DB) of police raided different areasin the capital with Rabiul Islam, one of the seven people arrested from Zia International Airport (ZIA). Rabiul is an Imam of a local mosque at Ishal Colony and a third-year student of Islamic studies at Jagannath University College.
A DB source said they are visiting different areas to verify information Rabiul had earlier revealed. On completion of the raid, law enforces would be able to know whether he gave false information, the source added.
JMB activists Nasir and Munna, who have already admitted to being involved in the bombings, were brought to Dhaka last night. The cops sent them to the capital from Satkhira at about 2:30pm under police escort.
Madrasa student Abul Kalam Azad, who was arrested by Khulna Metropolitan Police on Thursday with video of Osama bin Laden's speeches and military-style training techniques, was transferred to the capital yesterday.
Khulna unit General Secretary of Ahle Hadith Andolan, Bangladesh (Ahab) Golam Moktadir Babu was also sent withAzad, an Ahab activist.
Shamsul Alam, regional leader of the JMB held by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Kushtia, has also arrived in Dhaka.
Police have meantime arrested at least 25 more suspects and JMB leaders and activists from different parts of the country.
Seven of them were arrested in Gaibandha, six in Chapainawabganj, four including Imams of two mosques in Barisal, three in Joypurhat, two in Panchaghar and one each in Narayanganj, Tangail and Jessore.
Our Gaibandha correspondent reports: Police suspect one of the seven arrested during overnight raids is a close associate of JMJB chief Bangla Bhai, while six others are JMB activists.
The arrestees are Jahid Raihan Shimul, 27, Sanwarul Islam, 26, Khalilullah Jewel, 30, Abdul Jalil, 45, a close sidekick of Bangla Bhai, Atiqur Rahman Bikul, 26, Azizul Islam, 36, and Piyere Alam, 46.
Police yesterday raided the Gaibandha house of JMB central leader Mehdi Matin, who was in the district on August 17 until 12:30pm, but failed to nab him.
The police however seized religious books on jihad and letters from his fellow leaders of Sylhet, Comilla, Munshiganj, Lalmonirhat and elsewhere. They also seized a manuscript written by Matin similar to the leaflets found on the day of the explosions.
The father-in-law's house of Jalil, a teacher of Munshirhat High School, is located at Kurnipara village in Gabtali, Bogra, adjacent to the house of Bangla Bhai. He was the matchmaker of Bangla Bhai and his wife Fatema Khatun, daughter of Ibrahim Khalil. Our staff correspondent from Rajshahi adds: The Rab-5 yesterday arrested six suspect militants in Chapainawabganj in connection with the blasts.
The arrestees are Babar Ali, Sharif, Khairul Islam, Nadim, Moiz Uddin and Bazlur Rahman of Anguria and Arambagh in the town.
The Rab also arrested three persons -- Ishaq Ali, Ziaul Haque and Mahbub --in Joypurhat.
Meanwhile, Rajshahi Metropolitan Police yesterday shown arrested the seven listed top militants held from Bagmara on Thursday in all the four cases filed with different police stations of the city over the serial blasts.
The arrestees include madras teachers and Imams and mujahids connected with Bangla Bhai and JMB. They are on a home ministrylist of over 20 militants in Rajshahi.
Our Khulna staff correspondent reports: A court granted a 12-day remand for Golam Moktadir Babu, Abul Kalam Azad and Mujibar arrested in separate explosives cases filed on Thursday. However, the former two are nowin Dhaka to face interrogation.
Police seized a large number of handbills, brochures and other documents from the house of Babu, an instructor of Khulna divisional office of Bangladesh Cooperative Societies.
Our Satkhira correspondent adds: Police raided the houses of two close associates of JMB chief Abdur Rahman in the district on Thursday night, but could not arrest them.
Alauddin of Kushkhali and Abdul Khaleq of Baghaghata in sadar upazila maintain regular connection with Rahman over phone, local sources said.
"We have seized some Islamic books and documents from their houses," said Assistant Superintendent of Police of Satkhira Delwar Hossain, who led the raid.