Jamaatul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), the banned terrorist organization intended to recruit new recruits and followers by setting off a series of explosions in Dhaka, reports the Daily Star.
“Current JMB chief Maulana Saidur Rahman alias Zafar, who was arrested by law enforcers on Tuesday, told detectives that his detained third wife Naima Akhter, and two other women who managed to escape Sunday’s police raid on their Dania hideout, are well trained in use of grenades and other firearms.”
Upon the execution of the former leader of the JMB, the organization had fallen into disrepair. A crackdown over the weekend and into the early part of the week, nabbed high ranking leaders of the outfit, who have admitted that they were planning a series of attacks in Dhaka that they thought might be massaged and messaged into a call for recruitment, a move to fill the swell the ranks of a sagging terrorist organization.
It is considerably important to note that Saidur Rahman has admitted affiliations with Jamaat-e-Islami. This cannot come as good news to Jamaat leaders who are already under public and legal pressure for their Pro-Pakistani role during the 1971 Liberation War. Allegations of terrorism and treason are hardly ringing endorsements for an standing, esteemable political party.