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A court sentenced the wife of Bangla Bhai and two other members of al Qaeda-linked Jamaat Mujahideen Bangladesh to 20 years in prison for possession of explosive materials. Bhai was the second in command for JMB before he was executed in March 2007 for murdering a judge.

Police in Sylhet detained a British man for his involvement with the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami. Gholam Mostafa is the leader of HUJI’s branch in Britain. He is thought to have ties to Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Security forces detained five members of Jaish-e-Mohammad, including a Pakistani and four Bangladeshis, during a raid in a market in the capital of Dhaka. The five admitted to plotting attacks in the capital.

Security forces arrested a Bangladeshi leader of Lashkar-e-Taiba in the capital of Dhaka. Mohammad Motalem, who is also know as Majnu, is said to be the mastermind of the foiled plot to attack the Indian High Commission and the US embassy and recruited operatives for the failed attack.

Police arrested three members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba for plotting to conduct terror attacks against US and Indian interests in the capital of Dhaka. The arrests were made with intelligence gleaned from US terror suspects David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana.

Police arrested three Islamist terrorists, including a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, during a raid in Chittagong. The three men were “making plans to hit US targets,” a police officer said. Dozens of suspected Islamist terrorists have been arrested in Bangladesh over the past week.

Police detained Mufty Obaidullah, a senior operative in the India-based Asif Reza Commando Force. The group is a criminal-terrorist organization with close ties to Harkat-ul-Jihadi-e-Islami, the Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency. Obaidullah was attempting to expand the network in Bangladesh.

Two former directors of Bangladesh’s National Security Intelligence testified that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency and the ARY Group plotted to smuggle weapons into the country to pass along to the Indian terrorist group ULFA. Ten trucks laden with weapons were seized by police during an operation in Chittagong. The two directors were arrested for involvement […]

The commander of the Rapid Action Battalion said that “religious militancy is under control” after Boma Mizan, the chief explosives expert and trainer for the the Jamaat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh, was captured. Mizan has reportedly trained most of the 50 JMB bomb makers estimated to be operating in the country.

Police arrested Maulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, a founder of the Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami and the leader of the Islamic Democratic Party, for links to a bombing in 2001 that killed five people. The Rapid Action Battalion raided the Green Crescent Madrassa; two Islamist fighters were detained and a large cache of weapons and explosives was […]

Police have filed sedition charges against nine of 15 members of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir for involvement in the border guards’ revolt. Immigration police arrested a suspected member of Jamaat Mujahideen Bangladesh as he attempted to enter the country from India.

The government claimed that al Qaeda-linked Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh was involved in the coup attempt by the border police that resulted in the murder of 73 officers. “Not all BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) men were involved (in the mutiny) … and some JMB (Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh) links have been found,” the commerce minister said.