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FBI urged to check local, foreign links

8-member 2nd FBI team in town

Staff Correspondent
The government has sought assistance from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in finding out local and foreign links to the February 25-26 massacre at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in thecapital.
Ihe second FBI team has arrived We have sought their help to find out the local and international connections to the BDR carnage," Commerce Minister Faruk Khan, who is coordinating the mutiny probes, said yesterday.
Iheir visit follows departure of a rwo-member FBI advance team earlier this month.
Ihe eight-member FBI team, which arrived in Dhaka on
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Tuesday night, visited the border guards' Pilkhana headquarters yesterday. The visitors along with local investigators went there at about 10:30 am and saw the places of occurrence for around four hours.
Brig Gen Md Mainul Islam, director general of the BDR, told The Daily Star, "The FBI team visited all the crime scenes at Pilkhana. Members of the probe body formed by the home ministry and investigators from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) accompanied them... I also talked to them."
Sources said the FBI team had separate meetings with the probe body formed by the home ministry, and the CID investigators.
Contacted, Abdul Kahar Akond, CID senior assistant superintendent of police (ASP), who is leading the CID probe team, declined to say anything.
Other CID sources however said both the probe bodies briefed the FBI team about the massacre and informed them about the progress in their investigations.
Talking to reporters after a meeting with the Sri I^nkan high commissioner in Dhaka at his ministry, Faruk Khan said probes into the mutiny are going on property, and the reports would be made public soon.
"We are not hiding anything. We have been transparent from the beginning. Wc
will disclose everything by making the investigation reports public," he said.
Asked why foreign connection is being suspected, the minister said, "So many army officers cannot be killed only fort a few kilograms of rice.”
Faruk Khan noted that Bangladesh has considerable economic might in many fields including garment sector, and reputation in UN peacekeeping missions.
"The BDR mutiny was staged to damage the country's economy, the armed forces and the nation's morale," the minister said.
I Ie will have a meeting with the FBI team today to discuss the latest state of investigation. Asked if anti-liberation forces' were involved in the carnage, he said, "Please be patient, the probe reports will reveal everything."
The minister again called upon the fugitive BDR men to surrender. He also urged people to help the law enforcers to track down suspected mutineers.
Meanwhile, a Scotland Yard team from the UK also came to Bangladesh to help probe the BDR Mutiny and massacre.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had earlier sought cooperation from both the FBI and Scotland Yard to probe the carnage that left 76 people, including 56 army officers and their family members, brutally killed.