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Shooting ordered if attacked

Home acts on terror alert

Shariful Islam and M Rahman
Law enforcers have been ordered to shoot if they come under attack in the course of today's opposition rally in the capital and elsewhere, Rab and home ministry officials said yesterday.
Already, law enforcers across the country have been kept on alert, following intelligence reports that Jamaat-Shibir activists may attack lawmen and key installations and snap rail and road communications.
Alongside several thousand policemen, members of Rab, Border Guard and Ansar have been deployed to ensure foolproof security of the secretariat and other important government offices, rail and road bridges, power stations, fuel pumps and other strategic points across the country.
"We've intelligence that Jamaat-Shibir activists might attack law enforcers as they did in the past. Law enforcers have been ordered to open fire if attacked," said an additional secretary of the home ministry, requesting anonymity.
Contacted, Lt Col Ziaul Ahsan, intelligence wing director of Rab, said: "I've ordered my force to shoot if they come under attack."
According to an official of the Special Branch of police, Shibir men were plotting to uproot rail tracks and dig holes and fell trees on highways to cut off Dhaka from the rest of the country.
Intelligence suggests that the BNP and the radical Islamist group Hefajat-e Islam are yet to be organised enough to pose a threat.
Several top Hefajat leaders are at odds over sharing the money they got from different quarters for the May 5 rally in the capital. Besides, a recent blast at its Nayeb-e-ameer Mufti Izharul Islam's madrasa in Chittagong sent waves of panic among its men, the additional home secretary told this newspaper.
Meanwhile, detectives yesterday held a security demonstration in and outside the secretariat to ensure flawless security there.
Over the past few days, law enforcers have intensified surveillance at mosques, madrasas, student dormitories and community centres to prevent any storing of arms and ammunition by " any bad elements".
Talking to The Daily Star about Rab's preparation to avert any untoward situation, its Director General Mokhlesur Rahman said: “Our members will take steps according to the gravity of the situation and they will not allow the situation to deteriorate."
Meantime, Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir yesterday said the law enforcement agencies would never allow or tolerate any rally or gathering aimed at creating lawlessness and chaos.
"If people's democratic rights are robbed in the name of rallies, the law enforcement agencies will not tolerate it and prevent it at any cost to maintain law and order,” he said, after inaugurating a complex for Rab-8 headquarters in Barisal.