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4 militants arrested with arms, ammo

Rab says they belong to Huji offshoot

Staff Correspondent
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested four leaders and activists of Tanjim-e-Tamiruddin, an offshoot of the banned militant outfit Harkatul jihad Al Islami (Huji), with firearms and explosives at Ashulia and Abdullahpur on the outskirts of the capital.
"The arrestees were accumulating the arms, ammunition and explosives in the city aiming to thwart the trial of war criminals through massive subversive activities after Eid," Rab Media Wing Director Habibur Rahman told a press conference at Rab headquarters in the capital yesterday.
Rab late on Sunday night seized a foreign-made pistol, 32 bullets, 1,135 bullets of SMG (submachine gun), five bomb detonators, a kilogramme of gel explosives, one blasting machine and eight crude bombs, he said.
The arrestees were Khalilur Rahman, also known as Shahriar, 32, Sharifuzzaman, also known as Milton, 27, Abdul Quader, 50, and Maksudur Rahman, also known as Rana, 27.
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Habibur said a team of Rab-1 arrested Sharifuzzaman and Maksud at Abdullahpur bus stand and after quizzing them they came to know that Shahriar and Quader were coming to Dhaka on a bus with arms, ammunition and explosives.
He said they arrested the two by setting up a checkpost near Ashulia Bridge. They searched the bus, from Tangail, they had been travelling on and found the arms and ammo in four bags. The arrests were made between 10:30pm and 11:30pm.
Rab claimed that Shahriar was the chief organiser of Tamiruddin, a militant outfit founded by now detained Huji military commander Maulana Abdur Rouf. It said Sharifuzzaman was the finance secretary, Quader an Arabic language teacher and Maksudur an activist of the organisation.
Maulana Abdur Rouf, along with some other top Huji leaders, including Mufti Abdul Hannan, are
accused in the August 21, 2004 grenade attack cases. On August 21, 2004, Huji as a mercenary force had carried out grenade attacks on an Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue to assassinate Sheikh Hasina, then opposition leader.
In August, Jhalakathi police arrested nine alleged militants of Tanjim-e-Tamiruddin with an inactive grenade and some provocative publications.
The arrestees had told police that they had taken an initiative to reorganise Huji across the country in the name of conducting a “Quran learning course".
An interrogator, who quizzed eight of the nine arrested at Jhalakathi, told The Daily Star that one of them, Moshiur Rahman Milon, had taken the responsibility of reorganising Huji.
The arrestees also disclosed that they had held several meetings in Bhola and Jessore. Shahriar had arranged the meeting in Jessore.
The groups arrested in
Jhalakathi had been preaching Islamist radicalism to recruit members and expand its network, police claimed. It launched a campaign against Hasina and the ruling Awami League, saying that they were anti-Islam and supporters of atheists, police said.
"Takbiatul Iman", one of the books recovered in the raid, mentions that Muslims are tortured, assaulted and killed when Mujib's "digital daughter" comes to power.
Moshiur also told police that they were arranging an eight-to-10 day motivation programmes to encourage young men to sacrifice their lives in Jihad.
Both Shahriar and Moshiur were once members of the banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
Shahriar was the Nayeb-e-Ameer for Khulna divisional unit of JMB and an accused in 17 cases, several of which were filed in connection with the August 17, 2005, nationwide synchronised bomb blasts.