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Bomb materials found at mosque rest

house Cops raid on confession of Sylhet bomber; Janajuddha helped JMB in Tangail blasts

STAR REPORT
Police recovered huge quantities of bomb materials from the rest house of a mosque in Sylhet town, 21 hours into Tuesday's bomb attack on a judge in the district, while the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activist caught after the attack admitted to making the attack.
JMB activist Akhtar Hossain, who was caught by pedestrians immediately after he hurled a bomb on Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Biplob Goswami in front of his residence, said in his confessional statement to a magistrate that he did it as
part of the JMB's countrywide programme of attacking judges.
“I did it to establish the law of Islam and it is part of our jihad to establish Islam in Bangladesh,” he said in the statement.
The District Bar Association of Sylhet yesterday observed a daylong abstention from work, brought out a procession and held rallies, protesting the bomb attack on Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Biplob Goswami.
Meanwhile, Tangail police submitted a charge-sheet saying the outlawed extremist organisation Janajuddha provided the JMB with financial and technological assistance in carrying out five blasts in the town on August 17.
During preliminary interrogation by local police, JMB activist Akhtar also admitted to his involvement with the JMB since 2001, reports our Sylhet correspondent.
Acting on his information, police raided the rest house of Bhangatikor Haji Buru Mia Jame Masjid in the city's Sheikhghat area yesterday afternoon and seized bomb materials and some books, including an Islamic magazine, from one of the rooms of the rest house.
The bomb materials include a dice, batteries, electric wires, small shards of iron nuts and bolts. Among the books seized are college texts and an issue of the Islamic magazine Al Hedayet.
According to the register book records of the rest house, the room had been rented to one Delwar from Austadhar of Muktagachha upazila of Mymensingh district. The law enforcers were looking for Delwar and one Obayed, who owns the books.
Police arrested Imam of the mosque Moulana Saifuddin in the evening. They also arrested Habibur Rahman, a former student of Shahjalal Dargah Madrasa, suspecting his involvement in the attack.
The rest house authorities said they rent out eight of the 10 rooms while the imam and muajjin of the mosque live in the two others.
Meanwhile, Akhtar admitted that he had been an activist of the Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from 1996 to 2001 before joining the JMB.
Police sources said the former Shibir activist, who appeared in Dakhil examinations in 2001 and 2003 from Sharishabari Dakhil Madrasa in Jamalpur but could not pass, admitted that he had been staying in Sylhet since September 20. Two local JMB leaders in Sylhet arranged the lodging at the city's Bankolapara's Baitul Falah Mosque, Akhtar told police.
“But he [Akhtar] declined to give details in this regard,” the sources added.
Police arrested the imam of Bankolapara mosque who, according to Akhtar, rented out a room to him.
Magistrate Habibur Rahman yesterday afternoon went to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital, where Akhtar was undergoing treatment, to record his statement but could not due to the latter's ill health.
Akhtar was seriously injured as pedestrians had beat him up after catching him.
Later, police produced him before the magistrate in his courtroom at around 8:30pm for recording the statement.
After recording his statement under Section 164 of Code of Criminal Procedure, the court ordered to send Akhtar to jail. “He has given some significant information while admitting to his links with the JMB,” Sylhet Superintendent of Police (SP) Ansar Uddin Khan told The Daily Star last night.
Meanwhile, Abdus Salam, driver of Judge Goswami, filed a case against Akhtar in connection with Tuesday's bombing.
TANGAIL PROBE
The Janajuddha, a faction of the outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party, assisted the JMB financially, technologically and by providing information in carrying out the five bomb attacks in Tangail town, police said in the chargesheet submitted before a magistrate yesterday.
Janajuddha had earlier verbally agreed with the JMB and Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB) to extend its help, Sub-Inspector (SI) Khoda Newaz of Tangail Sadar Police Station, also the investigation officer (IO) of the Tangail serial bomb blasts case, mentioned in his report, quoting JMB militants arrested in the region.
Newaz accused 15 Islamist militants, including JMB chief Abdur Rahman and JMJB operations commander Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, in the chargesheet, reports our Tangail correspondent.
The other accused in the chargesheet are Enayet Ullah, Shahidul Islam, Delwar Hossain, Yameen Miah, Shoeb, Arman-bin-Azad, Russel, Rustam, Habib, Habil, Ahad, Mizan and Tareq. Among them Delwar, Yameen and Shahidul are now in police custody while the rest are still evading arrest.
Mentioning Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai as the “masterminds” of the serial bomb blasts, SI Newaz said Delwar of Araihazar of Narayanganj was in charge of the “operation” in Tangail and received directives in this regard from JMB leader Enayet Ullah on August 14.
Delwar engaged five activists to carry out the attacks at different points while he himself exploded a bomb at the judge's court.
SI Borhan Uddin of Tangail Sadar Police Station filed a case under the Explosive Substances Act and Special Powers Act on August 17.
Delwar told police that Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai gave them month-long training on military operations and bomb-making at Delduar and Shakhipur a few months prior to the countrywide bombing.
Delwar had been carrying out militant activities in Tangail, using different names, including Rahamatullah and Maulana Samad, sources said.
He disclosed the names of 15 JMB activists, but police failed to arrest any of them.
Both Delwar and Yameen gave confessional statement before the court on September 6 and 7.