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JMB threatens to bomb 17 Kushtia installations

STAR REPORT
Banned Islamist organisation Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) yesterday threatened to blow up 17 offices and important establishments in Kushtia if police continue to arrest and harass its activists and their activities are obstructed.
Kushtia judge court, shopping malls and markets, police stations, police lines, local newspaper offices and all banks are on the JMB hit list, according to threat letters sent to the heads of the 17 offices and establish-
ments by post.
The computer-composed letters, issued by the “district unit chief commando of JMB,” were posted from Kushtia Police Lines post office on Saturday, sources said.
A UNB report says the deputy commissioner of Feni also received a threat letter sent by JMB yesterday, prompting the district administration to beef up security in the district and upazila headquarters.
Meantime, law enforcers yesterday arrested four JMB members -two in Jhenidah and one each in
Gopalganj and Comilla.
Our Kushtia correspondent reports: Panic gripped the people who were busy shopping at different markets in the district town after the news of JMB threat spread at about 12:00 noon. They left the malls and banks in fear of bomb attacks.
District administration admitted receiving threats and the law enforcers have been put on high alert to protect every targets mentioned on the JMB hit list. The police have also started a combing operation in the district to hunt down the militants.
Masud-ul-Alma, superintendent of police, Kushtia, told local newsmen that important government and nongovernment establishments have been put under special watch.
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has beefed up its patrolling in the town.
THE THREAT LETTER
The JMB threat letter received by the editor of a local daily reads: “The administration has been asked to stop unnecessary harassment and arrest of our activists. The administration will not be able to search out our strong dens in the district. Kushtia will face immense destruction if our activities are obstructed.”
“The administration will be responsible for it, not the JMB,” it adds.
“Through you, we want to let administration and people know if we are barred from our activities we will blow up courts, police stations, police lines, Kushtia municipality, Yusuf Memorial Market, Satabdi Bhaban market, Zilla Parishad, Kushtia Press Club, Dakbangalow, Ibrahim Plaza, Municipality Market, Azizur Rahman Market, Lovely Tower, Abdul Hamid Market, Razzak Market, Al-Amin Market, Chamber Bhaban, all local newspaper offices and commercial banks in Kushtia,” the letter says.
“This is not a threat, but the announcement of Jihad to establish Islamic rule and we are ready to sacrifice our lives for it. Those who do not support our Jihad to establish Islamic rule are the enemies of Islam. Their deaths are imminent,” added the JMB letter.
3 JMB MEN ARRESTED
Jhenidah police yesterday arrested two charge-sheeted accused of JMB at Chandipur village in Sadar upazila. The two were involved in the August 17 blasts in Kushtia.
The arrestees are Habibur Rahman alias Sahid of Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia and Masudur Rahman alias Bablu of Harinakundu upazila in Jhenidah.
Our Gopalganj correspondent adds: Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested JMB member Abu Taleb at Sonakur in Sadar upazila yesterday.
Taleb, 25, hailing from Garfa village of Mollahat upazila in Bagherhat, was involved in the August 17 serial blasts in Gopalganj, police said.
BDnews reports from Comilla: Detectives arrested suspected JMB cadre Mohammad Nurullah, 20, at Darmapur of Comilla town on Sunday night. Police also seized a number of books on Jihad from his possession.
Police said Nurullah of Chandpur was involved in the August 17 blasts.
Nurullah admitted that Bangla Bhai and Maulana Abdur Rahman gave them training in firearms such as
AK47 rifle and making bombs at three mosques in Comilla and in the deep forest of Sitakunda in Chittagong district.
CHITTAGONG
UNB from Chittagong reports: A Metropolitan Magistrate Court yesterday granted five days' fresh remand to eight suspected militants for further interrogation as intelligent agencies found their links to the October 3 bomb blasts at Chittagong courts.
Metropolitan Magistrate Akram Hossain granted the remand on a prayer from Detective Branch (DB) of police who told the court that the eight were involved in carrying explosives and supplying money to execute the blasts in two courts.
Those who were taken on remand are: Haji Abul Kalam, Abu Taher, Mohammad Ishaq, Osman, Nurul Islam, Ashraful Alam, Noor Mohammand and Saiful Islam.
Police on Friday arrested 25 suspected militants from Aziz Chamber in the port city. Of the suspects, 17 were sent to jail and the others remanded.
The investigators said the eight suspects, traders by profession, had been maintaining links with the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) for a long time.
KHULNA
Our staff correspondent in Khulna says: Police will bring suspected militant Hafez Abdul Jalil, 28, of Morelganj upazila in Bagerhat to Khulna tomorrow, showing him arrested in the bomb blast case filed with Khulna Police Station on August 17.
Bagerhat police arrested Jalil on October 5 suspecting him as a JMB cadre.
Police yesterday submitted a petition to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Khulna, seeking a fresh remand of seven days for interrogating him in connection with bomb explosions on Khulna Judges' Court compound.
Meanwhile, police launched a massive hunt for Islamist extremist Dr Shahadat Hossain and her daughter Tahera Khatun of Burhigangri village under Mollahat upazila of Bagerhat district after intelligent agencies reported that they are JMB extremists.
The two ran a training centre at Burhigangni village and went into hiding soon after August 17 serial bomb explosions in Bagerhat district.
According to a reliable source of Bagerhat district police, 26 JMB cadres including Dr Shahadat and his daughter participated in the training on how to operate arms and detonate bombs and grenades in the last week of June.
Police are also searching for JMB cadres reportedly running another militant training centre at Garhfa village in Mollahat upazila.