Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)

Rab arrests 5 JMB men in Mymensingh

Rapid Action Battalion today arrested five members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh and seized a number of books and leaflets on jihadi ideology from their possessions.

3 ‘JMB’ men held in Assam

Three suspected activists of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been arrested in Barpeta district of Assam, police say.

4 'JMB militants' held in Dhaka

Law enforcers arrest four suspected members of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Abdullahpur, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

3 ‘JMB militants’ held in Natore

Law enforcers arrest three alleged militants of the banned outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Ruyerbhag village of Natore Sadar upazila.

7 including 6 women held for militant link in Rajshahi

Police arrests seven people including six women suspecting their involvement in militant activities in Rajshahi.

Momena, Asmaul self-radicalised through internet videos: Cops

Police claim that the two Bangladeshi sisters, who were arrested for attacking a man in Australia and a policeman in Dhaka’s Mirpur area in separate incidents, were self-radicalised through the internet.

Dhaka attack: Marzan ‘associate’ of CU Islami Chhatra Shibir

The youth, who police claimed was ‘in-charge of Gulshan café attack’ and known among his fellow militants as Marzan, has been an associate (Shathi) of Chittagong University unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student front of Jamaat-e-Islami.

STRAIGHT LINE / The fuss about ISIS and what we need to do

The murders of bloggers, intellectuals, priests, academicians, rights activists, and also persons of ordinary vocations committed by allegedly extremist groups...

STRANGER THAN FICTION / Politics, terrorism, and the state of denial

While Islamist terrorists have re-emerged recently, killing bloggers, writers, foreign nationals and Shias, and attacking an Ahmadiyya mosque, with impunity, one wonders how leaders, intellectuals, and ordinary people in Bangladesh can afford to waste time and energy in partisan politics!

August 16, 2016
August 16, 2016

Dhaka attack: Marzan ‘associate’ of CU Islami Chhatra Shibir

The youth, who police claimed was ‘in-charge of Gulshan café attack’ and known among his fellow militants as Marzan, has been an associate (Shathi) of Chittagong University unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student front of Jamaat-e-Islami.

May 28, 2016
May 28, 2016

The fuss about ISIS and what we need to do

The murders of bloggers, intellectuals, priests, academicians, rights activists, and also persons of ordinary vocations committed by allegedly extremist groups...

January 4, 2016
January 4, 2016

Politics, terrorism, and the state of denial

While Islamist terrorists have re-emerged recently, killing bloggers, writers, foreign nationals and Shias, and attacking an Ahmadiyya mosque, with impunity, one wonders how leaders, intellectuals, and ordinary people in Bangladesh can afford to waste time and energy in partisan politics!

December 31, 2015
December 31, 2015

Reactivated JMB!

If all those extremists killed and arrested in the last one month belong to the JMB then all those that had written off the extremist group as a non-entity and without the capacity to create problems for the country must be eating their words, and that includes the head of our police too.

December 27, 2015
December 27, 2015

JMB regroups without watch

Ahmadiyya Muslim community leaders in Rajshahi are of the opinion that those who are hostile to their ideology orchestrated Friday's

December 26, 2015
December 26, 2015

Autopsy verifies dead youth as bomber

As police sue two unknown assailants over the Bagmara Ahmadiyya mosque blast in Rajshahi, autopsy report confirms the dead youth as one of the attackers. None of the attackers have been identified yet and none held.