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Bombs being made for JMB operation

Confesses 'Boma' Mizan but claims he's not aware of targets of attack

Shariful Islam
Banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) had been planning terrorist attacks and asked its now detained explosives expert 'Boma Mizan' to have some bombs ready for use.
Mizan. now on remand, has disclosed this to Rab interrogators. He, however, claims he knows nothing about the targets.
In interrogation, he also said the JMB top brass were supposed to firm up the plans at a meeting on May 15, the day
after he was captured from Taltola in the city.
The meeting was to be held in Joypurhat. Moulana Saidur Rahman, who is now at the JMB helm, was supposed to be in attendance, one of the Rab officials quizzing Mizan told The Daily Star yesterday.
"He said he doesn’t know anything about the targets, as he was arrested before the planned meeting," said the Rab official requesting not to be named.
Saidur's son Bashar, who too is a key figure in JMB, met Mizan at Gulistan on
May 8 and asked to make bombs.
The detained JMB explosives expert also told the interrogators that his deputy Shishir or the outfit's military wing commander Sohel Mahfuz alias 'Hatkata Mahfuz' might fill in for him.
He also said the JMB high command would give him Tk 30,000 a month to cover personal and organisational expenses. Bashar and Sohel Mahfuz would hand him the money.
Investigators said lately they have gathered that the militants are most
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organised in Dhaka, Gazipur, Joypurhat, Comilla and Chittagong districts.
They have also got some vital information about several members of Majlish-e-Shura, highest policy-making body of JMB, and their activities.
Saidur, who once was ameer of Habiganj district Jamaat-e-Islami, took charge of JMB after the execution of its top six leaders including Shaekh Abdur Rahman and Siddiqui Islam alias Bangla Bhai in March 2007.
Besides him, Rahman alias Zafar, Sohel Mahfuz, Bashar, Mehedi, Mustafiz alias 'Mostafiz Sir', Sayeem, Ejaj, Abir, Nazmul alias 'Bhagne Shahed' and Shahid alias Osman are in the top echelons of the outlawed group.
Saidur's another son AHM Shahim was JMB's IT expert, and has been behind bars since arrest in 2005.
Talking to The Daily Star, Director Intelligence of Rab Major Azim Ahmed said, "We're working to hunt down the militants including their top leaders. But you know how they are always in flight."
Following up information from Mizan, the elite crimebusters have already busted a bomb-making factory at East Monipur in Mirpur and recovered a huge cache of explosives, detonators and grenade's outer casings.