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Bangladesh police kill nine militants, foil ‘mass attack'
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 27 - 07 - 2016

Bangladeshi police on Tuesday killed nine suspected militants believed to be planning another mass attack following a deadly cafe assault this month, the country's police chief said.
Police who stormed their hideout said the men belonged to a Bangladeshi group blamed for the Dhaka cafe attack in which 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, were killed.
"From police intelligence sources we learned that they were planning to carry out a major incident. We conducted the operation to foil any such incident," national police chief A.K.M Shahidul Hoque said.
"They were wearing the same extremist dress as worn in the Gulshan attack," he said, referring to the upscale neighborhood where the cafe was located.
One other suspected extremist was shot and arrested during the raid in the capital's Kalyanpur neighborhood, according to police.
Hoque said all 10 were suspected members of the homegrown extremist group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), which local authorities blamed for the Dhaka cafe attack.
But a police official said one wounded survivor of the raid had said all of those inside the hideout were followers of Daesh (the so-called IS).
"His name is Hasan. He said they are Daesh members," the police official said on condition of anonymity.
He said the 25-year-old was a cook and came from the northern district of Bogra, home to two of the five cafe attackers.
Daesh claimed responsibility for the July 1 attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan in which two policemen and 20 hostages were killed, among them nine Italians and seven Japanese nationals.
Gruesome images of the carnage were posted on media sites who have links to Daesh before the military stormed the cafe.
But Bangladeshi authorities have rejected the Daesh link, saying international jihadist networks have no presence in the world's third largest Muslim-majority nation.
Hoque said the nine killed in Tuesday's operation had no connection with the Daesh, even though they were wearing the group's signature black robes and Islamic turbans.
"We have not found any link with Daesh. They are all local Bangladeshi militants," he said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina thanked police for a "very successful operation" and said their swift action had saved the country from a "terrible situation."
"We don't want Bangladesh to become a sanctuary for the terrorist activities," she said, adding her government would eliminate extremism at all costs.
Police said they had cordoned off a five-story apartment building in Dhaka after suspects threw a small bomb at officers.
A gunfight ensued during which cries of "Allahu Akbar" ("God is Greatest") could be heard through the night as hundreds of heavily armed police and elite security forces sealed off the area.
Police said they had found university identity cards at the scene and were checking whether they were genuine.
Three were from the North South University (NSU), which hit the headlines when seven students were convicted and jailed for the killing of an atheist blogger.
Two of the Gulshan café attackers were also former students of NSU.
"We are now checking whether these university ID cards are genuine or they just used the cards to rent the flat," deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masud Ahmed said.
Bangladesh is reeling from a wave of deadly attacks by extremists.
Days after the cafe siege, gunmen attacked the country's largest Eid prayer rally where some 250,000 people were marking the end of Ramadan, killing at least three people.
Some 80 secular activists, foreigners and members of religious minorities have been killed since 2013, with IS and the South Asian branch of Al-Qaeda claiming responsibility for many of those attacks.
The government and police, however, say homegrown extremists are responsible.
They have launched a nationwide crackdown, arresting more than 11,000 people. Among them were over a dozen suspected extremists including one of JMB's regional heads.


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