Bangla Bhai the Second Major Terrorist Leader Captured in Bangladesh (updated)
By Andrew Cochran
On March 2, I posted about the capture in Bangladesh of Abdur Rahman, leader of Islamic terrorist groups Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB) and Bin Laden ally during the 1990s. Bangladesh have followed up on that success by capturing Bangla Bhai, Rahman's partner in terrorism. These captures are extremely important and indicate a penetration and infiltration of the JMB-JMJB network by Bangladesh security operations. It could enable them, and hopefully Western counterterrorism officials, to obtain documents, financial records, and oral statements on the ties and contacts between the Bangla groups, Al Qaeda, and possibly other major Islamic terrorist groups. At "The Fourth Rail," Bill Roggio has an excellent summary of the arrest and Bangla Bhai's work with Rahman, with pictures of Rahman and Bhai. Bangla Bhai was wounded in the capture but will recover from his wounds. Here's more on the continuing investigation of Rahman and Bhai from "The Daily Star" site in Bangladesh (updated):
Bangla Bhai, the tyrant who once spread Islamic militancy with the administration's protection, was captured wounded yesterday from a remote Mymensingh hideout after skirmishes with the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab). As the splinter-hit and explosive-burned militant top gun was carted along the rutted roads of Rampur village in Muktagachha, the curtain dropped on his reign of terror in the northern Bangladesh where he killed and tortured scores amid the government's denial about his existence. Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai was flown to Dhaka by a helicopter after given treatment at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital and is kept at BDR Hospital in Dhaka. Despite splinter wounds in the abdomen and burns almost all over his body, his condition is now stable, the state minister for home said.
Tyrant Bangla Bhai finally captured
Rise and fall of a dreaded militant leader
Rahman had training on arms in Afghanistan
Ex-Jamaat leader's chequebooks found in Rahman's hideout
Rab raids in Sylhet in search of top militant
Captured terrorist leader Bangla Bhai in handcuffs and scenes from arrest ("The Daily Star")
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