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Another JMB cache found at Rangpur

Seizure list includes 24 grenades, huge bomb-materials

STAR REPORT
Law enforcers yesterday recovered yet another large cache of explosives and bomb-making materials and equipment from an abandoned sack on Lalbagh College Road in the northwestern town of Rangpur.
The haul included 24 homemade grenades, two time bombs, 50 power gels, 62 detonators, 20kg ammonium nitrate, three full and 147 empty cans of picric acid, 1,465
bullets, 3kg lead balls and 20kg of iron weights used in fishing nets. Besides, 25 books on Islamic theology and an assortment of laboratory equipment including a weighing machine were also in the sack.
The police yesterday also arrested two Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members in Natore and one in Chapainawabganj, while Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) netted six suspected militants in Bogra.
In Rajshahi, the four JMB operatives arrested on Friday confessed to the police yesterday that they would have made some bomb strikes in the immediate past if a number of JMB linchpins including its Military Commander Ataur Rahman Sunny had not been arrested.
RANGPUR HAUL
Shamsul Islam, owner of Hasan Polythene Store on Lalbagh College
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Road, said an unidentified youth aged around 18 left the sack in front of his shop, saying he would be coming back soon after buying a rack, according to our Rangpur correspondent.
But, as the youth did not return even after two hours, a local named Zamil Hossain became suspicious and informed the local police about the matter.
A contingent of Rab and another of Kotwali police led by Sub-Inspector Dibakor rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area, sparking off panic among thelocals.
The explosives haul was found packed in eight cartons in the abandoned sack, witnesses and police sources said.
A Rab source said manufacturing of the grenades and time bombs seized was yet to be completed.
Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Bazlur Rashid said the youth probably was a carrier and abandoned the sack in fear of getting caught bylaw enforcers, when he heard that the Rab was conducting a raid near the spot.
Rashid said there is little doubt that the recovered explosive items belong to the outlawed Islamist outfit JMB.
RAJSHAHI
The four Islamist militants including the JMB Rajshahi district commander held on Friday admitted that they had been waiting for orders from the party bigwigs to carry out some planned subversive activities in Rajshahi and elsewhere in the country, police investigators said.
The arrestees also told the investigators that they lost contacts with the party nucleus after some key JMB leaders including Sunny had been arrested.
All of them had once been involved with ruling Jamaat-e Islami's student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) and also had links with some leaders of another outlawed Islamist outfit Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh (Ahab), one of the arrestees and some of their neighbours said.
Motihar police yesterday afternoon placed three of them -- Rajshahi JMB commander Abu Isa alias Enamul, Ajmat Ali and his brother Hasmat Ali -before a metropolitan magistrate with a prayer for a seven-day remand for them for further interrogation. The hearingis slated for today.
Earlier in the day, Rab handed the four arrestees and bomb-making materials recovered on Friday to Motihar and Putia police stations. Putia police will bring Abdul Wahab before a magistrate today.
To investigators Enamul admitted that he was the JMB commander of eastern Rajshahi district covering Charghat, Bagha, Putia, Durgapur and Bagmara upazilas. He said another man named Sheikh Enamul Haque Moni, who goes around in the guise of a journalist, is the commander of the JMB western Rajshahi district.
Enamul also named one Rafikul Islam Shilpi, who stayed at his place, as involved in the August 17 bomb blasts. He repented for his involvement with the JMB and pledged to law enforcers that he would not do such crimes ever again, sources said.
Enamul used to stay overnight at Ajmat's Naodapara house under Motihar Police Station quite often, said some villagers. They said, during the last one year the two had often been seen holding meetings and giving arms training to known and unknown
youths at the local mosque and madrasa at night.
The villagers also said though they had submitted a written complaint to the OC of Motihar PS against the mysterious activities and training, no action followed and showed a copy of the complaint.
OC Fayezur Rahman of Motihar PS, however, claimed he was not aware of any such complaint.
Hasmat's wife Shefali said Enamul and an unknown man brought the seized explosives and bomb-making materials in two boxes to their house a week ago. She said Hasmat joined the JMB after he had failed to pass the HSC examinations last year.
In Putia, villagers said Abdul Wahab of Banshbaria was once an ICS activist and his father Jasim Uddin Sheikh was a member of the local chapter of Jamaat.
Wahab's wife Taramon Bibi said some unidentified men kept the bag containing the explosives at their house a month ago. The bag was scheduled to be taken away a few days ago, she said, but could not give any more details.
She said Abdul Matin, a teacher at Dhokrakul Madrasa and a JMB military trainer, lured Wahab into the JMB from Jamaat. During Bangla Bhai's anticommunist operations last year, Matin formed the JMB organisation in the area, recruiting local youths.
CHAPAINAWABGANJ
Detective Branch (DB) of police in the early hours yesterday arrested JMB member Abu Sufian Mim, son of retired principal Mohsin Ali of Nawabganj Girls College, for threatening to kill some local journalists and police officials.
The DB held Mim at Pathanpara in the town and seized a cellphone, five SIM cards and eight diaries from him. The diaries carried lists of politicians belonging to both the ruling and the opposition parties, government officials andjournalists.
NATORE
In Natore the DB yesterday arrested Quamrul Islam alias Karim, an Islamic History teacher at Madhnagar Degree College in Naldanga, at his Moharajpur home under Gurudaspur upazila. The detectives also held Morshed, son of Akbor, at Shakharipara villagein Naldanga.
Investigators believe Karim and Morshed have links with JMB Military Commander Sunny, who stayed at Shakharipara Madrasa for a few days two and a-half months ago and roamed the neighbouring areas with Morshed on a motorbike.
BOGRA
The Rab arrested six suspected JMB operatives in Sherpur upazila of the districtin the early hours yesterday.
The arrestees are Joynal Abedin, 20, Raihan Islam Palash, 20, Abdullah Al Mamun alias Hira, 17, Mohammad Yusuf, 20, Faruq Ahmed, 19, and Abdul Latif, 22.