One of the arrestees, Forman Ali who is suspected to be leader of the group, will be sent to the Joint Interrogation Cell in Dhaka today.

Sources in law enforcing agencies said the arrestees confessed during primary interrogation that a Jaamat worker and teacher at Natore City College had asked them to gather at Shadhupara Ahle Hadith Jame Masjid (mosque) in Natore for physical training.

Police nabbed them from the mosque.

Of the militants, madrasa teacher Alauddin is a ward unit president of Jamaat in Halsha union, whose father Hasan Ali Mondol was the union 'peace committee' president during the liberation war, sources said.

Peace committees collaborated with Pakistani occupation army during the war.

Another arrestee, Alauddin's student Saiful Islam, is an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir, and his father Moslem Mondol was Bipro Belgharia union peace committee general secretary.

Four other arrestees -- Forman Ali, Shahidul Islam, Anwarul Islam and Mokhlesur Rahman -- are Jamaat members while Ahsan Habib, a student of Dastanabad Dakhil Madrasa, is a Shibir activist.

Earlier, Magistrate Mehdi Hasan had placed Forman Ali of Dastanabad in Natore on a four-day remand and sent 11 others to jail custody rejecting their bail prayers.

Forman told police he had organised the physical training at the dictate of one Abdul Quiyyum.

Talking to reporters while in custody, the militants said they were working to establish Islam. "Every one should follow us", one of them said.

The Mosque
The one storied Jame Masjid situated in Jaamat-dominated Shadhupara, seven km off the district town, was constructed in 2002 by Bangladesh office of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society of Kuwait.

Emaj Uddin, 'imam' of the mosque said Ishaq, Forman and two others were at the mosque when he left it at 8:00 pm on Monday.