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News reports on army men's links a fiction.

Says ISPR on Aug 17 Blast

UNB, Dhaka
The army headquarters yesterday said newspaper reports about the involvement of cx-lance corporal. Harun-ur-Rashid and a number of other retired and serving army men in die August 17 bomb blasts were all a fiction.
Such reports are "totally fabricated, imaginative and baseless", it observed on the basis of crosschecks conducted on the reports run by
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“Analysing false and fictitious news-Epcr reports on involvement of some rmer and incumbent army men in the Augurt 17heinous bomb attacks, itcould he apprehended that an interested quarter is enraged in ill effort to create panic by publishing concocted news about militants' infiltration Into the army and thereby to undermine the image of the army and the country.' said anlSPRrelease.
The newspaper reports said that police arrested retired lance corporal ILuun-ttr- Rashid following the confessional statement of bomb-carrier Obaldullah Suman. As a matter of fact, the release said, after investigation and interrogation at JIC it was ascertained that Obaldullah Suman did not know lance corporal Harun and he did not supply bombs to Harun. This proves that Harun is not an offender or a member of 1MB. But some newspapers repeatedly published reports and pictures of Harun quotingObaldulinh Suman.
The military press wing observed that without getting the information confirmed by checking the facts and documents some newspapers identified arrested lance co rporalllanuiasabo mb expert and trainer of JME But investigations dearly proved that arrested lance corporal Harun had never been such a trainer in his service life and had no experience about it as well
The army headquarters said newspapers mentioned honorary Capt Mohiuddbl and former lance corporal Harun as officials retired from Bangladesh Ordnance Factory (DOF). But no officials with these names had ever been employed at BOR It said army soldier, lance corporal, noncommissioned and junior commissioned officers are not designated as army officers. They cannot be described asarmyofficials.
Quoting police authorities the release said that during the Investigation, arrested lance corporal Hanin has not made any statement whatsoever admitting to his having expertise in
malting bombs, wotidng as a trainer or about Involvement of any retirexl or inservice army member in the bomb attacks. The Interrogating authorities have also ascertained that they have not also supplied any information to anybody regardlngthe interrogation.
The release said some newspapers published a picture of a combat gear like dress used at JMB training center in Bogra. Although this dress has similarity with the army’s combat dress, it is not army combat dress. This dress is available in market and used by different privatesecurityagendes.
The investigation conducted by the army and information gleaned through police investigations "proved beyond doubt that arrested Harun was not involved bi the bomb attacks". He has not made any statement Implicating any retired or in-service army personnel in the bombings either. Therefore, the newspaper reports quoting his confessional statement are "fabricated and baseless", the ISPR news release said.