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AUG 17 TERROR BOMBING

Cops try to decode Arabic phone call

Another arrestee owns up involvement

Staff Correspondent
Investigators are trying to decipher a telephone conversation in Arabic tapped Saturday morning to check if there is any clue to the countrywide terror bombings that still remains a mystery.
Meanwhile, quizzing of 14 arrestees at the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) in Dhaka continued for the second consecutive day yesterday, with six more brought in to join their ranks.
A source said some of the 14 arrestees were released yesterday, as the investigators became sure they had no involvement in the bombings. But he did not specify the number of detainees released. The police arrested them at the blast sites immediately after the terror strike.
Sources said the new arrestees brought to the JIC yesterday confessed to their involvement in the attack. Earlier, two detainees from Satkhira and one from Kushtia identified themselves to the cell as operatives of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and admitted to their participation in carrying out the bombings. Yesterday another Kushtia arrestee confessed the same.
Investigators in Dhaka said new arrestees from across the country will be brought in and interrogated at the JIC and the process will be on.
On the telephone conversation, an intelligence source said they had wiretapped it on Saturday, where "two men were talking in Arabic and Bangla, which seems pretty suspicious to us."
The source did not give any further details about the phone call for the sake of investigation and said they are working to interpret the conversation to find whether it contains anything suspicious or any clue to the blasts.
Intelligence agencies have been tapping phone calls before and after the August 17 countrywide blasts. The source said, "Even if we don't get any clue from this conversation, we'll continue tapping phone calls."
Meantime, State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar yester-
day directed the law enforcement agencies to step up security measures across the country to avert any further bomb attacks.
"The minister has instructed us to keep tight vigilance in the city," Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner SM Mizanur Rahman said.
The ministry in a letter signed by Joint Secretary (Political) Md Abdul Haq also directed the district-level officials to hold regular meetings on law and order situation.
Our Khulna correspondent reports: Law enforcers yesterday continued a manhunt for Sheikh Rafiqul Islam, a lecturer of Islamic studies at Paikgachha College, suspecting his involvement in Wednesday's bombings.
Rafiqul, who hails from Ghorahati village of Satkhira, has been on the run since Wednesday's blasts.
Member of Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh (Ahab), he is a close relative of Ahab chief Asadullah Al Galib, detectives said.
"We have evidence that he was involved in the planning of Wednesday's serial bomb blasts," said a Detective Branch official.