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Pakistani militant Yusuf Bhat’s ‘Bangladesh Mission’
Dipu Sarwar
Awami League leaders shield Sheikh Hasina with their bodies shortly after a grenade attack on August 21, 2004 Courtesy
Yusuf Bhat came to Bangladesh with an assignment of long-term militant activities, one of which was the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally
One of the biggest militant attacks in Bangladesh’s history was the grenade attack on Awami League President Sheikh Hasina’s rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004.
The then opposition leader and now prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, had become the target of a terrorist attack on an anti-terrorism rally. Twenty-four people were killed in that attack. If the attack was fully successful, most of the Awami League policymakers, including the party chief, would have died.
Who planned this militant attack, who were they, and what would they have gained by taking out the Awami League leadership? Where did the grenades come from? How, and who supplied them?
The man who has provided the answers to all these questions is a Pakistani militant. His organizational name is Abdul Majed Bhat, alias Abdul Majid, but his real name is Abu Yusuf Bhat. He had come to Bangladesh with the “assignment” to carry out long-term militant activities. He even married a local girl, after learning to speak and write fluent Bangla, reported Bangla Tribune.
Investigations revealed that Yusuf Bhat, son of Abdur Rahman Bhat, is from the Terigaon area of Kulgaon in India-controlled Kashmir’s Islamabad district. After finishing school, he completed his honours in biology from the Islamabad Government Degree College in 1989.
In the beginning of the 90s, Yusuf was made a top level organizer ofHijb-ul Mujahideen, the military wing of the Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami, after he left Kashmir in India and became a Pakistani citizen. Hijb-ul Mujahideen was formed in September 1989, with the direct backing of Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Yusuf Bhat is one of the principally accused in the August 21 grenade attack case. On December 6, 2009, Yusuf gave a 14-page confessional statement in court detailing information regarding active militants in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
In his statement, Yusuf said he met Maulana Tajuddin, Maulana Abdus Salam, and Mufti Hannan, at Mohammadpur’s Saat Masjid in early August 2004. “Maulana Tajuddin said if Awami League comes to power then it will be tough for our organization to be active in Bangladesh and India. So, if Sheikh Hasina is killed then Awami League will be destroyed and will not be able to come to power, and that will allow us to work easily in Bangladesh and India. That’s why we will have to kill Sheikh Hasina.
“When Maulana Abdus Salam asked how they would do it, Tajuddin said he had grenades that could be used to carry out the attack. Tajuddin also said his brother, Minister Abdul Salam Pintu, would provide all assistance on behalf of the government. He said they would have to carry out the attack with the BNP in power, because it wouldn’t be possible if Awami League returned to power.”
Yusuf also said Tajuddin stressed that they would not have to think the matter over as government assistance was confirmed by his brother.
He said Tajuddin was given Tk6-7 lakh in several phases by Hijb-ul Mujahideen to bring the grenades and ammunition to Dhaka from Pakistan via India. But he could not bring them over as the person who was supposed to receive and supply the grenades and ammunition had gotten arrested at the border by India’s Border Security Force (BSF).
“The grenades used in the attack on Awami League’s rally on August 21, 2004 were the ones Tajuddin already had. Mujaffar Shah had given them to him.”
Yusuf Bhat in his confessional statement also gave information regarding the grenades that were used in the attacks on then British high commissioner in Dhaka, Anwar Choudhury, on May 21, 2004, on Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta’s rally in Sunamganj on June 21 that year, on then Sylhet mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran on August 7, and the fatal attack on former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria in Habiganj on January 27, 2005.
As part of his plan to permanently stay in Bangladesh, Yusuf married Nahid Laila Kakon of Sirajganj on October 3, 2003.
Kakon said she met Yusuf through Arif Hasan Sumon, another accused in the August 21 case. After their marriage, Yusuf applied for Bangladeshi citizenship and even had a fake Bangladeshi passport made with false information .
Sumon, whose real name is Abdur Razzak, is from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur. Another accused in the August 21 grenade attack case, Hafez Maulana Idris, is a brother-in-law. Tajuddin, who is a fugitive in this case and currently living in South Africa, used to be a tenant at Sumon’s house. Yusuf also rented a flat in that same building after he arrived in Dhaka.
Yusuf came to Dhaka for the first time in January 2000. Before his arrest in Sirajganj in June 2007, he lived in both Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Yusuf’s now former wife, Kakon, in her confessional statement given on September 15, 2013, also provided details regarding communications between Yusuf and others accused in the August 21 case, travel of militant leaders to Bangladesh from Pakistan, arms and financing, and other matters of this nature.
Yusuf in his statement also confessed that Pakistan-based militant outfit Tehrik-e-Jihadi (TJI) leader Mujaffar Shah had sent him the grenades used in the August 21 attack. Tajuddin also had some explosives. The grenades and the explosives were even kept in Yusuf’s Mohammadpur flat for a while.
He also gave information regarding the activities of Pakistan and Afghanistan-based militant groups, such as TJI, Hijb-ul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Harkat-ul Mujahideen, Al-Badr, and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, and their members in Bangladesh.
For Hijb-ul Mujahideen, Yusuf was active in Kashmir until 1999. The next year, he and Salahuddin Shah came to Bangladesh following the orders of the militant outfit’s leader, Syed Md Yusuf Shah, alias Syed Salahuddin. Their plan was to set up an arms supply route through Bangladesh to India-controlled Kashmir.
After staying in Dhaka for several months, they went to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Tajuddin had told them to return if the BNP-Jamaat alliance came to power through the 2001 national polls. Yusuf returned to Dhaka in 2002. He went back to Pakistan with a Bangladeshi passport on October 7, 2006, and then returned to Dhaka in November.
Yusuf’s statement also mentioned that militants traveled between Pakistan and Bangladesh without any problems during the BNP-Jamaat coalition’s term in power. He also gave up information regarding Engineer Khan, Kamrul Islam, Golam Rasul, Mujaffar Shah, Sekandar, Shakil Shahed, Khurram Khaiyam, alias Selim, Safi Samiullah, alias Mostak, and others, who were involved in militant activities in India through Bangladesh.
The reasons, according to Yusuf Bhat, why Sheikh Hasina was attacked
1. The religion-based militants needed a government in their favour to keep India destabilized, for which they did not like Sheikh Hasina
2. The militants consider her an enemy of Islamists as she is secular
3. Anti-Islam intellectuals apparently get more space whenever Hasina is in power
4. Hasina’s death would have destroyed Awami League and the party would never have come to power
5. Sheikh Hasina is an enemy of Pakistan. The intelligence agency, political parties, and militant outfits of that country do not like her
6. Bangladeshi political parties that favour militancy are also against Sheikh Hasina
7. Some political parties, which either came to power or shared power, also dislike Hasina. Their interests and militant interests align.
8. Apart from the religion-based militants, other active terror groups in India also consider Sheikh Hasina their enemy
Dipu Sarwar
- Published at 11:21 pm August 23rd, 2018
Awami League leaders shield Sheikh Hasina with their bodies shortly after a grenade attack on August 21, 2004 Courtesy
Yusuf Bhat came to Bangladesh with an assignment of long-term militant activities, one of which was the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally
One of the biggest militant attacks in Bangladesh’s history was the grenade attack on Awami League President Sheikh Hasina’s rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004.
The then opposition leader and now prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, had become the target of a terrorist attack on an anti-terrorism rally. Twenty-four people were killed in that attack. If the attack was fully successful, most of the Awami League policymakers, including the party chief, would have died.
Who planned this militant attack, who were they, and what would they have gained by taking out the Awami League leadership? Where did the grenades come from? How, and who supplied them?
The man who has provided the answers to all these questions is a Pakistani militant. His organizational name is Abdul Majed Bhat, alias Abdul Majid, but his real name is Abu Yusuf Bhat. He had come to Bangladesh with the “assignment” to carry out long-term militant activities. He even married a local girl, after learning to speak and write fluent Bangla, reported Bangla Tribune.
Investigations revealed that Yusuf Bhat, son of Abdur Rahman Bhat, is from the Terigaon area of Kulgaon in India-controlled Kashmir’s Islamabad district. After finishing school, he completed his honours in biology from the Islamabad Government Degree College in 1989.
In the beginning of the 90s, Yusuf was made a top level organizer ofHijb-ul Mujahideen, the military wing of the Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami, after he left Kashmir in India and became a Pakistani citizen. Hijb-ul Mujahideen was formed in September 1989, with the direct backing of Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Yusuf Bhat is one of the principally accused in the August 21 grenade attack case. On December 6, 2009, Yusuf gave a 14-page confessional statement in court detailing information regarding active militants in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
In his statement, Yusuf said he met Maulana Tajuddin, Maulana Abdus Salam, and Mufti Hannan, at Mohammadpur’s Saat Masjid in early August 2004. “Maulana Tajuddin said if Awami League comes to power then it will be tough for our organization to be active in Bangladesh and India. So, if Sheikh Hasina is killed then Awami League will be destroyed and will not be able to come to power, and that will allow us to work easily in Bangladesh and India. That’s why we will have to kill Sheikh Hasina.
“When Maulana Abdus Salam asked how they would do it, Tajuddin said he had grenades that could be used to carry out the attack. Tajuddin also said his brother, Minister Abdul Salam Pintu, would provide all assistance on behalf of the government. He said they would have to carry out the attack with the BNP in power, because it wouldn’t be possible if Awami League returned to power.”
Yusuf also said Tajuddin stressed that they would not have to think the matter over as government assistance was confirmed by his brother.
He said Tajuddin was given Tk6-7 lakh in several phases by Hijb-ul Mujahideen to bring the grenades and ammunition to Dhaka from Pakistan via India. But he could not bring them over as the person who was supposed to receive and supply the grenades and ammunition had gotten arrested at the border by India’s Border Security Force (BSF).
“The grenades used in the attack on Awami League’s rally on August 21, 2004 were the ones Tajuddin already had. Mujaffar Shah had given them to him.”
Yusuf Bhat in his confessional statement also gave information regarding the grenades that were used in the attacks on then British high commissioner in Dhaka, Anwar Choudhury, on May 21, 2004, on Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta’s rally in Sunamganj on June 21 that year, on then Sylhet mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran on August 7, and the fatal attack on former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria in Habiganj on January 27, 2005.
As part of his plan to permanently stay in Bangladesh, Yusuf married Nahid Laila Kakon of Sirajganj on October 3, 2003.
Kakon said she met Yusuf through Arif Hasan Sumon, another accused in the August 21 case. After their marriage, Yusuf applied for Bangladeshi citizenship and even had a fake Bangladeshi passport made with false information .
Sumon, whose real name is Abdur Razzak, is from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur. Another accused in the August 21 grenade attack case, Hafez Maulana Idris, is a brother-in-law. Tajuddin, who is a fugitive in this case and currently living in South Africa, used to be a tenant at Sumon’s house. Yusuf also rented a flat in that same building after he arrived in Dhaka.
Yusuf came to Dhaka for the first time in January 2000. Before his arrest in Sirajganj in June 2007, he lived in both Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Yusuf’s now former wife, Kakon, in her confessional statement given on September 15, 2013, also provided details regarding communications between Yusuf and others accused in the August 21 case, travel of militant leaders to Bangladesh from Pakistan, arms and financing, and other matters of this nature.
Yusuf in his statement also confessed that Pakistan-based militant outfit Tehrik-e-Jihadi (TJI) leader Mujaffar Shah had sent him the grenades used in the August 21 attack. Tajuddin also had some explosives. The grenades and the explosives were even kept in Yusuf’s Mohammadpur flat for a while.
He also gave information regarding the activities of Pakistan and Afghanistan-based militant groups, such as TJI, Hijb-ul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Harkat-ul Mujahideen, Al-Badr, and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, and their members in Bangladesh.
For Hijb-ul Mujahideen, Yusuf was active in Kashmir until 1999. The next year, he and Salahuddin Shah came to Bangladesh following the orders of the militant outfit’s leader, Syed Md Yusuf Shah, alias Syed Salahuddin. Their plan was to set up an arms supply route through Bangladesh to India-controlled Kashmir.
After staying in Dhaka for several months, they went to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Tajuddin had told them to return if the BNP-Jamaat alliance came to power through the 2001 national polls. Yusuf returned to Dhaka in 2002. He went back to Pakistan with a Bangladeshi passport on October 7, 2006, and then returned to Dhaka in November.
Yusuf’s statement also mentioned that militants traveled between Pakistan and Bangladesh without any problems during the BNP-Jamaat coalition’s term in power. He also gave up information regarding Engineer Khan, Kamrul Islam, Golam Rasul, Mujaffar Shah, Sekandar, Shakil Shahed, Khurram Khaiyam, alias Selim, Safi Samiullah, alias Mostak, and others, who were involved in militant activities in India through Bangladesh.
The reasons, according to Yusuf Bhat, why Sheikh Hasina was attacked
1. The religion-based militants needed a government in their favour to keep India destabilized, for which they did not like Sheikh Hasina
2. The militants consider her an enemy of Islamists as she is secular
3. Anti-Islam intellectuals apparently get more space whenever Hasina is in power
4. Hasina’s death would have destroyed Awami League and the party would never have come to power
5. Sheikh Hasina is an enemy of Pakistan. The intelligence agency, political parties, and militant outfits of that country do not like her
6. Bangladeshi political parties that favour militancy are also against Sheikh Hasina
7. Some political parties, which either came to power or shared power, also dislike Hasina. Their interests and militant interests align.
8. Apart from the religion-based militants, other active terror groups in India also consider Sheikh Hasina their enemy
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Joy says Bangladesh should ask Britain to extradite Tarique to Bangladesh
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https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/201...sk-britain-to-extradite-tarique-to-bangladesh
Published: 2018-10-11 01:34:48.0 BdST Updated: 2018-10-11 02:09:23.0 BdST
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The prime minister’s ICT affairs adviser also thinks the government should ask the UK to extradite Tarique, sentenced to life in prison over the deadly Aug 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka.
BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique has been living in the UK since 2008 and running the party from London now with his mother and party chief Khaleda Zia incarcerated for corruption since early this year.
He was earlier sentenced to seven years in jail for money laundering and 10 years for corruption in Zia Orphanage Trust.
After a Dhaka tribunal delivered the judgment in the grenade attack case on Wednesday, Joy, the son of the attack’s prime target Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, took to Facebook to share his thoughts.
“Today after 14 years we are getting justice for the grenade attack on my mother and the murder of many people I knew well, including Ivy Rahman.”
“Our Government should immediately issue a new Interpol Red Notice for Tarique Rahman, this time for murder and terrorism. We should also ask the UK to extradite him,” Joy said.
The UK recently extradited four ISIS terror suspects to the US even though they may face the death penalty, Joy pointed out.
“We don't have an official extradition treaty with the UK, but UN charter requires any member states to extradite or convict in their courts upon request,” he wrote.
Hasina, during her visit to the UK in April, vowed to bring Tarique back to make him face justice in Bangladesh. She said she had spoken to the British government and would have Tarique extradited ‘by any means’.
Asked whether her government took any initiative to bring Tarique back, she had said the UK should have faced the question instead. “…I don’t understand how UK enjoys keeping a convicted person. So it’s better you pose this question to the UK people," she said.
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/201...sk-britain-to-extradite-tarique-to-bangladesh
Published: 2018-10-11 01:34:48.0 BdST Updated: 2018-10-11 02:09:23.0 BdST
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The prime minister’s ICT affairs adviser also thinks the government should ask the UK to extradite Tarique, sentenced to life in prison over the deadly Aug 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka.
BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique has been living in the UK since 2008 and running the party from London now with his mother and party chief Khaleda Zia incarcerated for corruption since early this year.
He was earlier sentenced to seven years in jail for money laundering and 10 years for corruption in Zia Orphanage Trust.
After a Dhaka tribunal delivered the judgment in the grenade attack case on Wednesday, Joy, the son of the attack’s prime target Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, took to Facebook to share his thoughts.
“Today after 14 years we are getting justice for the grenade attack on my mother and the murder of many people I knew well, including Ivy Rahman.”
“Our Government should immediately issue a new Interpol Red Notice for Tarique Rahman, this time for murder and terrorism. We should also ask the UK to extradite him,” Joy said.
The UK recently extradited four ISIS terror suspects to the US even though they may face the death penalty, Joy pointed out.
“We don't have an official extradition treaty with the UK, but UN charter requires any member states to extradite or convict in their courts upon request,” he wrote.
Hasina, during her visit to the UK in April, vowed to bring Tarique back to make him face justice in Bangladesh. She said she had spoken to the British government and would have Tarique extradited ‘by any means’.
Asked whether her government took any initiative to bring Tarique back, she had said the UK should have faced the question instead. “…I don’t understand how UK enjoys keeping a convicted person. So it’s better you pose this question to the UK people," she said.
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I sense another Bloody coup ......
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Dhaka_grenade_attack#cite_note-14
Investigation[edit]
After the attack, a sizable hue and cry were created both nationally and globally. Investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation came to Bangladesh with a view to investigating the gruesome attack.
Initial investigation[edit]
In 2004, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance government assigned Crime Investigation Department of Police to foresee the investigation. They came up with a story that some Joj Miah, also known as Jamal Ahmed from Noakhali district, along with 14 other criminals of Seven Star terrorist group of Subrata Bain attacked the Awami League rally. They met at Moghbazar before the attack, and rehearsed at a remote island before the attack.[7]
On 26 June 2005 Joj Mia confessed his involvement in the crime under section 164, to the magistrate.
Fresh investigation[edit]
In 2007, after the military-backed government assumed office, many of the BNP and Awami League leaders were rounded up by the government agencies, and fresh investigation into the case was launched.
After almost one year, in November 2007, Mufti Hannan, a militant leader from Gopalganj who was arrested by the BNP-led government in 2005, revealed that the attack was operated by the militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami of which he was a leader. He also admitted that he got support from Maulana Tazuddin, brother of BNP leader and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu while coordinating the attack.[8]
According to his statement, Abdus Salam Pintu had knowledge of the attack.
In 2008, after the detailed investigation, the then CID high official Jabed Patwary concluded that the attack was aimed at killing Sheikh Hasina and was guided by the common grievance of both Mufti Hannan and Abdus Salam Pintu against Sheikh Hasina for her role in “subduing” Islam. The investigation report mentioned that, Abdus Salam Pintu was personally responsible for the attack.
Further investigation[edit]
In 2009, Awami League came to office and decided to launch a further investigation into the incident and appointed a retired CID official Abdul Kahar Akhand as the person in charge.
In the same year, Abdul Majed Bhat alias Yusuf Bhat gave a confessional statement with the details regarding the source of grenade used in the attack. He claimed that Muzaffar Ahmad Shah of Tehrik-e-Jihad Islami (TEJI) gave the grenades to Maulana Tajuddin to send those to Indian militant groups. Tajuddin, instead of sending those to India, kept those with him. According to Yusuf Bhat, these grenades were later handed over to Mufti Hannan to carry out the attack.[9]
After two years, in 2011, Mufti Hannan gave another confessional statement implicating many big names, mostly BNP leaders and some former officials of the government including the son of opposition leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman, former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, former member of parliament Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad and some officials of the Home Ministry, police, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Prime Minister's Office (PMO) with involvement in the planning of the bombing.
In the statement, Mufti Hannan claimed that the attack was aimed at destroying the top leadership of Awami League including Sheikh Hasina, and BNP leader Tarique Rahman along with Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and the then Home Minister Lutfuzzaman Babor assured them with government support. Within a few days of the confession, Mufti Hannan’s lawyer placed a petition to court on behalf of his client claiming that the statement was recorded under coercion and prior to that Mufti Hannan was violently tortured. The court refused to accept the petition on legal grounds.
Perpetrators[edit]
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) leader Mufti Abdul Hannan was arrested for the grenade attacks in 2005, September 30,[10] and was later charged in connection with it. He reportedly confessed to the attacks in November 2007.[11] He was sentenced to death in December 2008 for attempting to kill Anwar Choudhury in 2004.[12] In March 2012, the son of opposition leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman, and 28 others were tried in absentia for their alleged involvement in the attack.[13] The supplementary charge sheets charges Huji, influential leaders of the BNP and the Jamaat, including former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, former member of parliament Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad and some officials of the Home Ministry, police, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence(DGFI), National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Prime Minister's Office (PMO) with involvement in the planning of the bombing.[14]
Investigation[edit]
After the attack, a sizable hue and cry were created both nationally and globally. Investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation came to Bangladesh with a view to investigating the gruesome attack.
Initial investigation[edit]
In 2004, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance government assigned Crime Investigation Department of Police to foresee the investigation. They came up with a story that some Joj Miah, also known as Jamal Ahmed from Noakhali district, along with 14 other criminals of Seven Star terrorist group of Subrata Bain attacked the Awami League rally. They met at Moghbazar before the attack, and rehearsed at a remote island before the attack.[7]
On 26 June 2005 Joj Mia confessed his involvement in the crime under section 164, to the magistrate.
Fresh investigation[edit]
In 2007, after the military-backed government assumed office, many of the BNP and Awami League leaders were rounded up by the government agencies, and fresh investigation into the case was launched.
After almost one year, in November 2007, Mufti Hannan, a militant leader from Gopalganj who was arrested by the BNP-led government in 2005, revealed that the attack was operated by the militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami of which he was a leader. He also admitted that he got support from Maulana Tazuddin, brother of BNP leader and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu while coordinating the attack.[8]
According to his statement, Abdus Salam Pintu had knowledge of the attack.
In 2008, after the detailed investigation, the then CID high official Jabed Patwary concluded that the attack was aimed at killing Sheikh Hasina and was guided by the common grievance of both Mufti Hannan and Abdus Salam Pintu against Sheikh Hasina for her role in “subduing” Islam. The investigation report mentioned that, Abdus Salam Pintu was personally responsible for the attack.
Further investigation[edit]
In 2009, Awami League came to office and decided to launch a further investigation into the incident and appointed a retired CID official Abdul Kahar Akhand as the person in charge.
In the same year, Abdul Majed Bhat alias Yusuf Bhat gave a confessional statement with the details regarding the source of grenade used in the attack. He claimed that Muzaffar Ahmad Shah of Tehrik-e-Jihad Islami (TEJI) gave the grenades to Maulana Tajuddin to send those to Indian militant groups. Tajuddin, instead of sending those to India, kept those with him. According to Yusuf Bhat, these grenades were later handed over to Mufti Hannan to carry out the attack.[9]
After two years, in 2011, Mufti Hannan gave another confessional statement implicating many big names, mostly BNP leaders and some former officials of the government including the son of opposition leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman, former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, former member of parliament Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad and some officials of the Home Ministry, police, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Prime Minister's Office (PMO) with involvement in the planning of the bombing.
In the statement, Mufti Hannan claimed that the attack was aimed at destroying the top leadership of Awami League including Sheikh Hasina, and BNP leader Tarique Rahman along with Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and the then Home Minister Lutfuzzaman Babor assured them with government support. Within a few days of the confession, Mufti Hannan’s lawyer placed a petition to court on behalf of his client claiming that the statement was recorded under coercion and prior to that Mufti Hannan was violently tortured. The court refused to accept the petition on legal grounds.
Perpetrators[edit]
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) leader Mufti Abdul Hannan was arrested for the grenade attacks in 2005, September 30,[10] and was later charged in connection with it. He reportedly confessed to the attacks in November 2007.[11] He was sentenced to death in December 2008 for attempting to kill Anwar Choudhury in 2004.[12] In March 2012, the son of opposition leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman, and 28 others were tried in absentia for their alleged involvement in the attack.[13] The supplementary charge sheets charges Huji, influential leaders of the BNP and the Jamaat, including former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, former member of parliament Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad and some officials of the Home Ministry, police, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence(DGFI), National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Prime Minister's Office (PMO) with involvement in the planning of the bombing.[14]
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Oh come on. Let's try and stay on the right side of sanity. In 1971 India practically incubated Bangladesh. If they wanted to integrate Bangla that was the perfect time. You don't incubate a country and then give it freedom but after nearly 50 years try to grab it.
Bangladesh was never 'integrated' in the first place. If I remember correctly Bangla came first and then al other regions were lumped with it by the British.
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YOu got it right!!
Harris was a RAW agent and were given protection by India after BNP left power. He was in India all along.
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Bengali judges seems like luck modis feet at night
Another? When was the last one?
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Bangladesh is not in Indian control by any means. India and Bangladesh have a deal that either side will not cause problems for the time being. BNP and Zia is retarded who does not understand logic and hence India or anyone else like Saudi does not like her. Zia is impatient as a child and does not have enough maturity to understand the situation. Her foolish actions might result in unnecessary bloodshed which can otherwise be postponed for 10 years for mutual benefit
Actually, the military establishment of Bangladesh is with Hasina as Zia is considered unstable. They prefer to silently build up without causing unnecessary disruption
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we should all admit that babr is a scrapegoat in this.... tarique would have gotten death penalty if the intention was revenge.
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