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From university to suicide squad

EMRAN HOSSAIN EMON
They disappear and then return as totally changed men after a long absence. Neither the family members nor the law enforcers in Kaliakoir have any idea about the place and circumstances that have been bringing such a wholesale change in young men. One of these men is KM Wahidul Islam Wasim, a student of economics department in Jahangirnagar University (JU) also a resident of Kaliakoir in Gazipur, who was arrested on Saturday by
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Rapid Action Battalion 7 (Rab-7) for being suspected as a suicide bomber of the banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The JU authorities sealed off his dorm room the same night.
He disappeared from his home about 7-8 months ago. He used to be full of life and took part in all academic activities until he completed the first semester of his second year in the university. He suddenly stopped attending classes and taking examinations in 2004 and started to talk about Ahle Hadith Andolon to fellow students. One day he disappeared. After several months in last September he returned home sporting a long beard.
His parents tried their best to bring him back to normal life. Since his return he started to live a routine life both on campus and at home and preached to stay away from anything that goes against Islam.
"He took Tk 3,500 to fill up some forms 7-8 months ago and since then he never asked for money. We did not know that he abandoned his studies," said wailing Jameela Khatun, mother of Wahid. His father Abdus Salam is vice-president of Kaliakoir unit of the ruling BNP.
According to local residents, Md Ilias Hossain, son of a Sonali Bank official Abdus Subhan, who was known as a leader of JMB in Kaliakoir, used to help Wahid in recruiting new members into JMB from schools, colleges, madrasas and even from kindergartens. Ilias is a resident of College Road in Kaliakoir who also had disappeared more than a year ago and returned after allegedly getting JMB training in Chittagong. Detective Branch of the police said they had arrested him a month ago, but local residents alleged that he was released in exchange of a considerable amount of money paid to the authorities.
Local journalists said 'heavenly
rewards' for a shaheed (martyr), promises of establishing Islamic rule and of uprooting all anti-Islamic activities across the country, and above all financial benefits are being used to lure these young men in joining the JMB.
Ziaur Rahman, brother-in-law of Wahid, is also a JMB leader in Kaliakoir and in the adjacent area.
A number of newly established kindergartens and schools in the area are suspected to have links with the banned organisation and are allegedly tempting students to join it.
Local residents and journalists said Julhas, Pakhi, Shafique, Abu Zar Gifar, Imam of Baliadi Mosque are absconding since the August 17 countrywide series of bomb blasts. Shamsuddin, Shahadat, Zahir and Moulana Delwar Hossain are the organisers of JMB activities in the area while Md Farid Miah alias Kankata Farid also Jamaat-e-Islami activist, Amirul Islam, Sirajul Huq and Sirajul Islam were the trainers, who are on the run since August 17.
Noapara, Gachhbari, Medi Der Chala, Purba Kamal Para, Kathachura Dakshin Para, Kot Bari, Shaldaha Para 1 & 2 and Fulbaria of Kaliakoir are places where alleged training of JMB cadres used to take place in the forests while the Ahle Hadith mosques in the area were the meeting and recruiting places for the militant organisation. Vaoman Namapara, Meida Ashulai, Boroi Chhuti, Gabtoli, Bagchala, and Shohagir Tek are also known as JMB infested areas.
Lutfor Rahman, officer-in-charge of Kaliakoir police station however said, "We do not have any information regarding existence of JMB in the area."