Bangladesh group used Pakistan grenades for terror attacks

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Bangladesh group used Pakistan grenades for terror attacks
Indo-Asian News Service
Dhaka, January 28, 2011
First Published: 13:09 IST(28/1/2011)
Last Updated: 13:11 IST(28/1/2011)

Bangladesh group used Pakistan grenades for terror attacks - Hindustan Times

Using a cache of 32 grenades it received from Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Bangladeshi Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI) staged seven attacks during 2004-05 against then opposition leader and now prime minister Sheikh Hasina and others, investigators have disclosed.

The attacks also were against former finance minister SAMS Kibria and then British high commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Chowdhury.

The LeT high-ups in Pakistan had sent the grenade cache to Bangladesh to despatch it to their men in Kashmir through Satkhira, bordering India's West Bengal.

“But the HuJI did not dare to follow the instruction thanks to the Indian authorities' interception of a previous consignment,” The Daily Star said quoting Rafiqul Islam of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Tasked with carrying out an additional investigation into the attacks, he said: "We now know who supplied the grenades and who received those in Bangladesh."

The investigator told the newspaper that new findings could lead to arrest of those masterminding it.

The seven attacks killed 34 people and injured over 400.

The attacks took place five to six year ago when the government headed by Prime Minister Khaleda Zia had Islamist allies who are accused of promoting Islamist militant outfits.

Hasina escaped the attack on her Dhaka rally in Aug 21, 2004 in which 28 people died and scores were injured. Kibria was killed and Chowdhury, the British diplomat of Bangladeshi origin, was seriously injured in the terror attacks.

Indicating a pattern, an official told the newspaper: “Any findings in the probe into a terror attack in the last decade have got to give clues to the other attacks, as it was the same group that used the same weapons to kill members of the same political party."

Sources said that the militant group had decided “to eliminate the top Awami League leaders, as it considered the party to be anti-Islam and pro-India”.

 

[Bang Galore]

The publication of this story is good news from the Indian view point. Investigators in a third country,namely Bangladesh are testifying that the LeT is pushing in arms to Kashmir through BD and that HuJI is fronting for the Let's activities. No more of the usual Indian propaganda excuses.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

The publication of this story is good news from the Indian view point. Investigators in a third country,namely Bangladesh are testifying that the LeT is pushing in arms to Kashmir through BD and that HuJI is fronting for the Let's activities. No more of the usual Indian propaganda excuses.

This news is from india... n no such news was published in Bangladesh.... so do not get excited before hand... this could well be a bharati propaganda...no grenade can not come to bd without the assistance of bharatis... that is how bharatis tried to destabilize the tribal region of bd...

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Friday, January 28, 2011
Front Page
32 LeT grenades let terror loose
Julfikar Ali Manik

32 LeT grenades let terror loose

Most of the 32 Arges grenades sent to Huji-Bangladesh by Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were used in at least seven major terror attacks in 2004-05.

Of the attacks, six targeted the leaders of the then opposition Awami League, and the other was on then British high commissioner Anwar Choudhury.

In carrying out the blasts, Harkatul Jihad al Islami had been aided by a powerful quarter, some of who were in state power.

Investigators unearthed these while trying to get to the source of the grenade used in the killing of AL leader and former finance minister SAMS Kibria.

They say their findings would help unravel the mystery behind other similar attacks.

"Any findings in the probe into a terror attack in the last decade have got to give clues to the other attacks, as it was the same group that used the same weapons to kill members of the same political party," says an official asking not to be named.

Investigation sources say 21 grenades of the consignment from LeT were used in seven attacks between May 2004 and December 2005.

Of those, 12 were dispatched to be used in the August 21 blasts and nine in six attacks in Sylhet region including Kibria killing.

Of the nine grenades for Sylhet, two were used in the attack on a rally of AL policymaker Suranjit Sengupta--one went off and the other was thrown into a water body by the fleeing Huji men.

AL leader and Sylhet Mayor Badruddin Ahmed Kamran came under attack twice. On one occasion, he narrowly escaped death and on the other, the grenade did not go off.

One each was used in the attacks on Kibria, Anwar Choudhury and incumbent AL lawmaker Syeda Jebunnessa Haque.

The investigators have yet to trace the remaining two of the nine.

The seven attacks killed 34 and injured over 400.

Twenty-four AL leaders and workers were killed and over 200 injured in the August 21 attack on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital; five were killed and 70 injured in the attack on Kibria; one was killed and over 30 were injured in the attack on Suranjit; one was killed and over 30 were injured in the attack on the Sylhet mayor; at least eight were injured in the attack on Syeda Jebunnessa Haque; and three were killed and 70 injured in the attack on the Bangladesh-born British high commissioner at the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal(RA).

The investigators say some other Arges grenades of the LeT cache have been recovered by law enforcement agencies from different places including Narsingdi and Satkhira.

Huji started using grenades in their attacks since 2004. Earlier, it used locally-made bombs.

The sources say the militant group's high command had decided to eliminate the top Awami League leaders, as it considered the party to be anti-Islam and pro-Indian.

Anwar Choudhury had been targeted, as he too was considered an enemy by Huji.

Several Huji men have been convicted in the Anwar Choudhury attack case. The outfit's chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul and Delwar Hossain alias Ripon were sentenced to death, while Hannan's brother Muhibullah alias Muhibur Rahman alias Ovi and Mufti Main Uddin alias Abu Zandal were awarded life imprisonment.

Hannan, Bipul, Ovi and Zandal were involved in the attack on Kibria and would be accused in the supplementary charge sheet, investigators say.

Trial of the case for the attack on Suranjit had started in Sunamganj, but a Sylhet court last year sent it for further investigation following a prayer from the prosecution.

Most of the grenade attack cases are now under investigation.

During the BNP-Jamaat alliance rule or even during the two-year caretaker government rule, investigations into the attacks could not detect the source of the grenades.

The probes were politicised during the BNP-Jamaat rule. Some of those did not progress for dillydallying tactics, while others were diverted to save the real culprits, says an investigator.

Following an application from the prosecution in 2009, the court ordered Criminal Investigation Department to go for further investigation to reveal the source of the grenades used in the August 21 attack.

The investigators say analysis of the grenade and other bomb attacks in last few years indicate that the organisations with secular beliefs had been the target.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Is it something AL trying to do to gain some sympathy and to crack down on BNP leaders with this allegations after their loss of Mayor election all across the country??? Just curious...

 

[eastwatch]

Indian puppet AL will start a crackdown on the nationalist power. But, the more they steamroll, the more they will be unpopular.

 

[Contract Killer]

Indian puppet AL will start a crackdown on the nationalist power. But, the more they steamroll, the more they will be unpopular.

I can feel your frustration. But poor you.............. Helpless. Cannot do anything except Net Bashing.

 

[hillman32]

Thanks GOD, Indians have not linked to ISI once again.

LeT only operate in Indian Occupied Kashmir.

It is wrong to implicate LeT in BD.

But what one can expect from an enemy like India and its all time vocal media.

 

[Last Hope]

How can the Bharti newspaper say that?

1) It was 2004-05 and they found it out now.
2) They always blame it on Pakistan. So nothing new here.
3) There isint a Pakistani link here, I am not believeing.

 

[integra]

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[Gabbar]

LeT supplied grenades for 7 terror attacks in Bangladesh: Report

Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for the Mumbai attacks, had supplied the grenades used in seven major terror attacks in Bangladesh in 2004 and 2005, including the one on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a media report said.



"Any findings in the probe into a terror attack in the last decade have got to give clues to the other attacks, as it was the same group that used the same weapons to kill members of the same political party," the Daily Star reported quoting an investigation official who preferred anonymity.



It said LeT sent 32 Arges grenades to Harkatul Jihad Bangladesh (HuJI) which were used in at least seven major terror attacks, six of them targeting the then opposition Awami League leaders including Hasina, while former Bangladeshi-born British High Commissioner in Dhaka Anwar Choudhury was the target of the seventh one.


"In carrying out the blasts, Harkatul Jihad al Islami had been aided by a powerful quarter, some of who were in state power (at that time)," the report said.


Investigators unearthed these while trying to get to the source of the grenade used in the killing of Awami League leader and former finance minister SAMS Kibria.

Officials concerned were not immediately available for comments on the report.
But a senior official Criminal Investigation (CID) said they are expected to file a chargesheet against the suspects of the most gruesome of the attacks, the August 21, 2004 attempt on Hasina when 24 people were killed.

The seven attacks killed 34 and injured over 400.

Several Huji men have been convicted on charges of attempts on life of the British envoy while the outfit's chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and two leaders to death.

Bangladesh police three months ago said they arrested the suspected coordinator of the Pakistan-based Laskar-e-Toiba (LeT) along with two accomplices from a downtown hotel under an intensified anti-militant campaign.

Security officials earlier said they suspected that the LeT operatives were providing money to Bangladeshi militant groups and recruiting operatives to be trained in Pakistan as they were in close contacts with HuJI and Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

Police and elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested some 20 suspected Pakistani and Indian nationals in the past one year for their suspected links to the Pakistan-based LeT as part of an intensified campaign against militancy.

But most of them were accused of carrying fake currencies believed to be used to carryout their activities in India.

LeT supplied grenades for 7 terror attacks in Bangladesh: Report

 

[Gabbar]

This news is from india... n no such news was published in Bangladesh.... so do not get excited before hand... this could well be a bharati propaganda...no grenade can not come to bd without the assistance of bharatis... that is how bharatis tried to destabilize the tribal region of bd...

It was LeT's grenade
Investigation confirms the source in Pakistan 6 years into Kibria murder; family of AL leader frustrated with probe

It was LeT's grenade (THE DAILY STAR)

 

[Imran Khan]

same old bla bla bla .grenade from pakistan and written on them made by POF pakistan for special use of terrorism in s.Asia batch.no26-11

 

[saleen_s7]

I don't effing understand the dilemma here. Mufti Hannan was cought almost 7-8 years ago.. why do we have to wait for so long for the news? are the DGFI deliberately trying to hide something or perhaps a cover up. SOme of the BNP ministers and MPs have been accused, but since it made it to the news headlines, no actions against them has been taking. Matter of fact, to some sources, their guilitiness could not be yet proven. then why made it to the headlines? what is going on here?

 

[Gabbar]

Indian puppet AL will start a crackdown on the nationalist power. But, the more they steamroll, the more they will be unpopular.

Attacked happened during BNP rule and your formar finance minister was killed. So you tell me who is killing who.