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Sunny met Rahman at different city places

JULFIKAR ALI MANIK
Arrested Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny learnt bomb-making from none other than the militant outfit chief and his elder brother Shaekh Abdur Rahman.
“It is him who taught me how to make bombs...how and in what proportion to mix the different materials, how to fix the detonator and the timer,” Sunny told investigators after his arrest yesterday.
Sunny also told the investigators that the top leaders of JMB do not stay at any specific shelter or house or office. “We maintain contact over mobile phone,” a Rab source quoted Sunny as saying.
However, the military wing leader of the banned Islamist outfit admitted that he used to visit his
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elder brother regularly at different places.
Meanwhile, sources said JMB chief Rahman was staying at a hideout in Tejgaon a short while before the Rab arrested Ataur. Rahman left the house belonging to one of his JMB aides where Sunny met him Monday, they added.
Another source said Rahman was staying in the house of a JMB activist at Mohammadpur and that Sunny met him there two-three days ago. The Rab also raided the house but did not find him there.
Sunny, one of the seven members of Majlish-e-Shura, the top tier of the JMB that supervised the August 17 countrywide bomb blasts, was caught from the gate of Latif Dormitory of the Polytechnic Institute at Tejgaon at around 3:00pm Tuesday as he came to meet a JMB operative there.
The JMB chief was the key man to collect funds for the organisation. “He told me money was no problem,” Sunny told interrogators, when asked about source of funding.
“So far I know, our local fund comes from subscriptions collected for mosques and madrasas, monthly collections from activists and a big fund from the zakat collected during Ramadan,” he said.
On the supply of explosives, he said they collect explosives through different ways but mostly by road from India.
Abdul Awal, Rahman's son-in-law and another Majlish-e-Shura member whom the police arrested in Thakurgaon last month, was responsible for smuggling the explosives through Rajshahi region.
Admitting that he was responsible for the coordination in Dhaka region, Sunny said he had trained four-five activists in bomb making in Dhaka.
After the law enforcers raided Rahman's Banasree den in Dhaka last month in search of Abdur Rahman, the JMB operatives staying in the area scattered.
“We began to stay at different houses but nowhere for long,” Sunny told the investigators, adding that they have 10-12 trusted JMB men who provide them with shelter.
Sunny did not provide any specific information on the number of the suicide squad members, giving contradictory figures.
“But he said the JMB is continuing to recruit members for the suicide squad. After they target someone, they keep watch on him and preach about Islam ultimately to move towards Jihad. They make one believe that he will be considered 'shaheed' and will go to heaven if he sacrifices life 'for the cause of Islam',” said an interrogator.
Asked about the JMB's next target, Sunny did not give any details but said the Rab was their next target. “They also had plan to carry out carbomb attack,” the sources said.
Sunny also did not explain their reason behind the bomb attacks, saying only they did it as the government did not pay heed to their demand of establishing Islamic rule.
Asked if the JMB has any ambition to grab power, Sunny answered in the negative. They only aim at establishing Islamic rule, he said.