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HuJi helped JMB carry out Aug 17 blasts

Ctg arrestees say letter for assistance sent last year

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Ctg
Outlawed Hurkatul Jihad (HuJi) had helped another banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) carry out the August 17 bomb blasts across the country.
Four arrested JMB leaders on Friday night told police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) the HuJi helped them theoretically and provided training until August 17. The JMB top tier in 2004 sent letters
to different Islamist organisations, including the HuJi, who are based in Chittagong, seeking cooperation in launching its operations.
But only the HuJi based in Hathazari upazila had responded positively in no time, the four told the interrogators on the first day of their 10-day remand.
The remanded JMB men are Chittagong divisional chief Javed Iqbal alias Mohammad, Cox's Bazaar zone commander
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Naimuzzaman alias Jafar alias Sohag, Rafiqul Islam alias Javed alias Roman, and Monirul Islam.
They said JMB chief Abdur Rahman visited Chittagong about a year ago and held three meetings with his leaders and activists in a bid to reorganise them.
The meetings were held at the JMB hideouts of Salimpur in Bhatiary, Jhauban along the coastal area in Sitakunda and Paindong near Cox's Bazar-Lama border area.
Following confession of the arrestees, a Rab team on Friday night carried out a raid in Kattali and Salimpur to seize two more caches of arms and explosives. But the Rab drive yielded no result.
“We think JMB men escaped with their arms and ammunition after the arrests of Mohammad and Jafar,” a Rab source said yesterday. TRAINING CAMP AT HATHAZARI Police on June 1 last year busted an abandoned HuJi training camp at Mulatali in an almost inaccessible hilly area under Hathazari upazila. The police seized some arms, explosives, combat dresses, and books and booklets on jihad.
The police had arrested two top HuJi leaders, Eskander and Enamul, but their ringleader Mir Anis, cousin of a former state minister, escaped arrest, sources said quoting the four.
Anis, Eskander and Enamul used to render training to militants. Initially they had trained 150 militants but they had to split the recruits in groups as the number increased.
The JMB men said the HuJi led by Abu Raihan Siraji regrouped and reorganised in three to four months after the arrest of Eskander and Enamul.
The HuJi even distributed leaflets on behalf of the JMB with calls for joining jihad. The leaflets urged all to take the path of militancy to establish Islamic rule in the country, they added.
After August 17, the HuJi distributed JMB leaflets and booklets in Hathazari under the name of a new organisation, Israt-e-Deen, they claimed.
SUNNY SLIPPED ARREST
JMB operations commander Ataur Rahman Sunny, brother of the JMB chief, escaped arrest at least twice by the skin of his teeth after October 3 bomb attack on the Chittagong court building.
A police official speaking anonymously said they could not arrest Sunny due to non-cooperation of some cops.