Mufti: Several ministers promised to save him from case for attempting to kill
“…Mufti Abdul Hannan yesterday told a court that the law enforcers were not supposed to arrest him as some influential ministers of the government had assured him that he would be exempted from the charge of attempting to kill Sheikh Hasina….”
“…Under interrogation by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Hannan yesterday confessed to planting 76-kg bomb at Kotalipara on July 20, 2000, but he did not elaborate on how he got involved in the plot…”
“…Hannan told Metropolitan Magistrate Kamrunnahar that he went to Pakistan for study in 1979 and later he visited some other countries also for study. He said he returned home in 1981. He went to Afghanistan in 1984 for military training….”
“…A student of Sarsina Madrasa in Barisal, Hannan studied in Deoband madrasa in India. After graduating from a madrasa in Karachi, he had joined the Afghan war against the former Soviet occupation. He was even wounded in a battle there. Returning home at 1995, he started organising the Harkatul Jihad….”
KHULNA
“…Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) cadre Shahidullah alias Lokman told Khulna police on Saturday that he along with five others had made bombs in the house of Saint Joseph school's teacher Abdul Hakim Gazi. He also said the bombs were used in the blasts at 13 spots across Khulna city on August 17.
"I detonated bombs on the compound of Khulna Judges' Court and left Khulna for Dhaka the following morning,"
RAJSHAHI
“…Suspected militant Akhtarul Alam was taken on a three-day remand. Akhtarul is suspected to have been channelling funds to Bangla Bhai's Jagrata Muslim Janata, Bangladesh and JMB….”
BOGRA
“…JMB bomb squad member Abdur Razzak, arrested on September 22 in Gabtoli, gave statement before a first class magistrate yesterday, confessing his involvement in the blasts in Bogra on August 17….”
SATKHIRA
“…Two JMB operatives arrested last week in Satkhira for suspected links to the countrywide blasts were placed on a three-day remand each yesterday. The arrested JMB activists Ashraf Ali Master of Tengra and Abdul Ahad of Baliadanga village in sadar upazila were shown arrested in a case filed with Sadar Police Station for the explosions….”
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