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Ansarullah Bangla Team

Geared up for armed Jihad

Say detectives

Staff Correspondent
Ansarullah Bangla Team, an online-based network, recently geared up its campaign for armed Jihad which came to the limelight following the murder of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in February, said detectives.
Those involved in the network used to listen to pro-Jihad sermons delivered by its spiritual leader and radical Islamist Saikhul Hadith Mufti Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani, Detective Branch of police Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam told The Daily Star yesterday.
The detectives learned that as many as 25 books were authored by Jasimuddin, arrested in Barguna, alongside 30 alleged militants, onAugust 12, he added.
In his books, Jasimuddin specifically mentioned columnists, writers and bloggers, including Daud Haider, Taslima Nasrin, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Ahmed Rajib Haider, Asif Mohiuddin, Ariftir Rahman and Ibrahim Khalil, as people who should be thwarted.
Youths inspired by Jasimuddin to take part in armed Jihad include Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a 22-year-old Bangladeshi jailed for 30 years in the US on August 9 for plotting to bomb the US Federal Reserve Bank in New York last year, he said.
Another is Rajib Karim, a 31-year-old computer expert working for British Airways, who was jailed for 30 years in the UK in March 2011 for plotting to blow up a plane after conspiring with radical US-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, said Monirul.
Mejbah Uddin of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology's civil engineering, who recently stabbed to death a fellow student and Gonojagoron Mancha activist Arif Rayhan Dwip, also used to listen to Jasimuddin's sermons, he added.
Jasimuddin left the job of Khatib at Hatembagh mosque in the capital’s
Rayerbazar two years ago as the mosque authorities under political pressure had requested him to avoid "objectionable sermons".
Later, he joined as a Khatib at a Basila mosque in Mohammadpur.
Members of different outlawed militant outfits like Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami used to come to Jasimuddin, Monirul added.
However, law enforcers are still unsure whether his followers had any connection to the global terror outfits like al-Qaeda.
Wishing anonymity, a detective told The Daily Star that Ansarullah Bangla Team geared up its campaign for armed Jihad allegedly to benefit from the political instability before the parliamentary election.
The Daily Star found a website of Ansarullah Bangla Team which is connected with Pakistan-based Ansarullah Urdu Team through Facebook and blogs and clearly dictates the path of armed Jihad.
Some of the team's websites are qitalmedia.wordpress.com, jumuarkhutba.wordpress.com and furqanmedia.wordpress.com.
The team members, who follow the idealism of Anwar al-Awlaki, "spiritual leader" of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, uploaded to their website "qitalmedia.wordpress.com" the procedure to make ammunition by mixingchemicals.
The website, provided with contents in Bangla, also gives tips to make bombs with cheap and available materials with a call " make a bomb in your mother's kitchen".
It also shed light on Bangladeshis killed while taking part in Jihads in different countries.
The site also contains videos of speeches of global terror outfits including al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden with written interpretations in Bangla. Some contents outlined what the lifestyle of a Jihadist should be.