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'ISIS members' nabbed in Dhaka:ISIS Bangladesh Chief arrested; HUJI, Tripura's NLFT nexus under scanner
TIWN / bdnews24 Senior Correspondant
'ISIS members' nabbed in Dhaka:ISIS Bangladesh Chief arrested;  HUJI, Tripura's NLFT nexus under scanner
PHOTO : Four ISIS members arrested in Dhaka. Picture Courtsey : bdnews24.com

DHAKA / AGARTALA, January 19 (TIWN / bdnews24 ): Bangladesh Police claims to have arrested four ISIS members including Bangladesh ISIS chief. Detective police claims to arrest 4 ISIS activists including its chief coordinator in Bangladesh. Four members of militant outfit ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) have been arrested from Dhaka,police claims. Detective Branch's Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman said that those arrested include the organisation's chief coordinator in Bangladesh. The four were identified as Shakhawatul Kabir, Anwar Hossain, Rabiul Islam and Nazrul Islam. They were arrested from Dhaka's Jatrabarhi and Khilkhet areas early on Monday, he said.A laptop and ISIS leaflets have been recovered from them, added the police official. DB Inspector Md Abu Zafar said that Kabir's brother-in-law Shamim and Baten's brother Sayem lives in Pakistan and they are members of ISIS. The two had given Kabir the responsibility to work as ISIS' chief coordinator in Bangladesh, Zafar said. According to the detective official, Kabir has been frequently travelling to India, Pakistan and other countries.

Back in September 2014, A British man from London has been arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of recruiting people to fight for al-Qaida affiliates in the Middle East.

Paraded in front of cameras in handcuffs, and dressed in a long robe, Samiun Rahman, 24, was said by Dhaka police to have confessed to recruiting in Bangladesh on behalf of Islamic State (Isis) and Jabhat al-Nusra, another jihadi group in Syria.

Police also told news agencies that Rahman had travelled to Syria with a friend from Britain, going on to take up arms for four months in 2013 for Nusra.

Rahman, who has also used the name Ibn Hamdan Miah, was born in London, police said, but his parents were from a town north-east of Dhaka and he had been in the country for six months.

“We have arrested about five people with whom he had communication and there are another three or four persons we are still trying to identify,” Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the detective branch of police in Dhaka told the Guardian.

A Dhaka court has allowed the police to hold Rahman on remand for three days.

In a statement police said: “ was staying in Bangladesh to recruit jihadists for the [Islamic State] and Jabhat al-Nusra. “He came here as he thought it was possible to send people from Bangladesh [to Syria],” added Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the detective and criminal intelligence division.Last week, police arrested seven suspected members of the Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh in a Dhaka suburb who said they had also established contact with Isis.

The suspects were reported to be in possession of materials used to manufacture explosives and planned to attack high-profile individuals.

Tripura militant groups NLFT, ATTF in collaboration with Bangladesh Islamic militant group  HUJI helping Pakistan's ISI, Al-Queda and ISIS covert operations aganst Bangladesh and India.

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