Intelligence agencies deny link of JMB to BDR carnage
we have no information or evidence which indicate the connection with banned militant outfit Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) or that of extremists inside the country
Wednesday March 18 2009 23:24:02 PM BDT
Mamunur Rashid
Intelligence agencies have found no link of militant organisations to last month's mutiny at the BDR headquarters on February 25- 26 that left 74 army officers dead.(The New Nation )
Some 900 members of BDR have so far been arrested in connection with the massacre and alleged involvement in looting inside the headquarters during the two fateful days.
Investigators have reportedly found direct involvement of 650 members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in the carnage. Most of them are in sub jail at Peelkhana BDR headquarters.
Members of Operation Rebel Hunt have so far rounded up 222 BDR personnel.
Police said most of them did not resume duties and violated the government order. They were being quizzed at the camp of Operation Rebel Hunt in different districts.
Law enforcement agencies have further geared up their operations in the Sundarbans on the information that some fugitive BDR men have joined notorious groups of pirates with arms they looted from Peelkhana.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID)A on Monday produced 19 BDR jawans before a Metropolitan court in the capital seeking another five-day remand for each.
Of them two BDR personnel were in Task Force Interrogation Cell.
Intelligences agencies said they already interrogated more than 50 BDR personnel who were directly involved in the mutiny.
But we have no information or evidence which indicate the connection with banned militant outfit Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) or that of extremists inside the country with the Taliban militants in Afghanistan. The remanded of ringleader of the BDR mutiny Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) Syed Towhidul Alam and his four others colleague DAD Mohammad Abdur Rahim, Habilder Azad Ali, Nayek Mohammad Firoj Ahmed, Jawan Mohammad Zakir Hossain and cook Amirul Islam ended seven days ago.
Meanwhile, Commerce Minister Faruk Khan, who is coordinating the high-powered probe into the incident, said yesterday that militants had used the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) soldiers to make happen the carnage on February 25 and 26.
He said the government would pass necessary amendments to laws, if needed, to fight militancy and to try the BDR soldiers who are still on the run.
The ministers told journalist after a seminar at the auditorium of the Engineers Institute in the city.
"There is no need to make a fresh decision to uproot the extremists. Every citizen of Bangladesh wants the extremists to be uprooted. But as we said, this task will be done according to the existing laws. Noting will be done unlawfully," he added.
The minister also said the government has asked the people to remain alert to any possible ill attempts from the BDR soldiers who had fled with grenades and firearms during the mutiny.
Khan said investigation would reveal how such radical militants had been inducted into the BDR.
http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/03/18/news0353.htm
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