Advertisements to this effect will be made today. They will contain 10 separate photographs, five each displaying different appearances of the two militant leaders, and contact phone and fax numbers and email addresses.

In other developments, police yesterday in Narayanganj arrested three people with suspected links to serial blasts and a top leader of Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) in city's Uttara area.

Besides, three suspects in Satkhira gave statements to a magistrate, admitting their involvement in the near-simultaneous explosions.

Government sources said posters containing photographs of Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai would be circulated soon.

The police headquarters sent a copy of the advertisement to The Daily Star last night. It requests the people to assist the law enforcers in tracing the two militant kingpins. It asks the people to contact the law enforcers if they had any information about the two.

The ad said the identity of the informer will be kept strictly confidential and if their information translate into the capture of the militants they will be given a due reward.

It said Abdur Rahman, chief of banned Islamist militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), operates under different aliases like Moulana Md Abdur Rahman, Ehsan Moulana and Ehsan. Bangla Bhai, chief of Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), another banned Islamist outfit, had used Siddiqur, Azizul Islam, and Omar Ali Litu as his names on different occasions.

The advertisement identified Rahman as the son of late Abdullah Ibne Fazal of Charshi Khalifapara village of Kamal Khan Hat in Jamalpur and Bangla Bhai as the son of Nazir Hossain Master alias Shamsher Ali of Karnipara village of Gabtoli upazila in Bogra, the poster reads.

The poster shows the JMB chief attired in Panjabis in two photographs, while in shirts in as many. The other photograph shows him in coat and necktie. He appears bearded in one of the photographs, bald in another while wearing a cap in another.

Bangla Bhai is shown bearded and wearing a cap in one photograph while he is in Panjabi in the other three. One picture shows him to be in check shirt while another in a coat and necktie.

The advertisement gave 28 phone numbers, as many mobile phone and fax numbers, and 12 email addresses for the public to contact.

Meanwhile, intelligence personnel said six top leaders of JMB including the military chief of the outfit were in the capital in the run-up to the August 17 blasts.

A top official of the Detective Branch (DB) of police said they are convinced that the militant leaders were staying at five different places across the capital and fled the hideouts soon after the blasts. Detectives have already raided a number of houses in Dhaka but failed to nab any of them.

The DB official, however, declined to elaborate on the identities of the five top JMB leaders.

The law enforcers were continuing the hunt for electrician Amir, brother-in-law of Samad who managed to evade arrest during a raid at his South Goran house on Thursday. Police said Amir used to help Samad in making bombs.

Taking with them two suspects, DB police yesterday raided different areas of Old Dhaka but to little avail. The two suspects -- Hiron and Kironwere held after their names came up in the documents seized from the South Goran house.

"We are trying to find whether the two had supplied the plastic materials used in the bombs that went off on August 17. They will be shown arrested once we are sure about their links," said a top DB official seeking anonymity.

Taking Lokman, domestic help of the South Goran house, with them the detective police also visited different places to gather possible leads.

Lokman was arrested along with Shammi, wife of Samad, on Thursday at their South Goran house from where police recovered a huge cache of bombs and explosives.

DB has already prepared a list of 17 suspects, basing on the statements of Shammi and Lokman, and is on a manhunt for those on the list.

Earlier, the law enforcers had picked up Basir Uddin Munshi, Shammi's father, and Abdur Rob, the person who registered the marriage of Samad and Shammi.

Moreover, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) carried out raids in different areas in the city, following statements from six arrestees including AHM Shamim, son of former Habiganj district ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami. However, the drives did not yield any result.

Five of the detainees were arrested at an East Bashabo house. Military chief of JMB Ataur Rahman is believed to have co-ordinated the blasts from the house.

Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday placed Mosharraf Hossain, arrested for alleged involvement in blast incidents, on a three-day remand. Police sought for a seven-day remand.

In the forwarding report placed before the court, police said Mosharraf is an active member of a militant group. Investigation reveals that he and his associates led by Moulana Abdul Mannan of Satkhira would conduct subversive activities and operate training camps in Badda, Uttara and some other places in Dhaka city.

Besides, he seems to be holding vital clues to the August 17 serial bomb blasts across the country.

On information received from him, police had raided different areas of the city and seized some alamats (evidences) left behind by the extremists. So he needs to be quizzed further.

Our Narayanganj correspondent reports: Police arrested the three serial blast suspects in Panchrukhi area of Arai Hazar upazila on Saturday night.

They seized some books and some of those were penned by Ahle Hadith chief Dr Asadullah al Galib.

The arrestees identified themselves as followers of Galib. They are Joynal, a former madrasa student, Baten, and Hazrat Ali.

Police said Baten had been in Iraq and Libya and Joynal has military training. They said there is a militants' den in Panchrukhi, where Moulana Amir Hossain used to train the zealots.

Our Satkhira correspondent reports: Three suspected JMB cadres yesterday gave statements to First class Magistrate Saidur Rahman.

Court sources said Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Criminal Investigation Department Munshi Atiqur Rahman brought the three-- Nasiruddin, Maniruzzaman Munua, and Mahbubur Rahman Liton -- from Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) in Dhaka to Satkhira and produced them before the magistrate yesterday morning.

In his statement, Liton said he had brought the bombs from Khulna to Satkhira and stored those in a rented office room in Rasulpur area of the town about a week before the incident. Later the bombs were supplied to Maniruzzaman Muna.

He also admitted to being an active member of JMB and his part in the August 17 terrorist attacks.

Munna said he handed over those bombs to Nasiruddin, Gias Uddin, and others. Besides, he planted bombs near Khulna Road intersection.

Nasiruddin said he placed the bombs on the premises of women and children repression court.

Nasir and Munna were arrested on August 17 while Munna on August 24.

RIHS LEADER HELD
Police arrested Akhtaruzzaman, a leader of Revival of Islamic Heritage Society, at the Uttara office of the Kuwait-based NGO at house No. 40 in sector 7 yesterday at about 11:00am.

Akhtaruzzaman, chief of Talim wing of the organisation, denied links to the August 17 blasts. He claimed he is involved with the anti-outlaw drives and knows Bangla Bhai well.

Uttara police will produce the arrestee before a court today.

BOMB HOAX
Panic gripped the teachers and students of Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) School at Mirpur in the city yesterday after an anonymous caller said some bombs were planted in the school.

Police said hoax bomb threats were made twice at 8:05am and at 8:22am by a male caller to the school's phone saying the bombs would go off between 9:00am and 11:00am. Teachers and students rushed out of the school following the threat.

Informed by the school authorities, Mirpur police rushed to the spot and carried out a thorough search but found no explosive devices. A general diary was lodged with Mirpur Police Station in this connection.

DMP CAUTION
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authorities have requested the house owners to enquire everything about prospective tenants before renting out houses.

The DMP in a press release issued yesterday also requested the city landlords to know in detail about those who have already rented their houses. Investigations have revealed that the plan for the serial blasts was made in some rented houses in the city and other district towns, read the press release.

It also asked the city dwellers to inform at once police and Rab if they find movement of anyone suspicious.

Jamaat MPs rebut Babar's claim of JMB link as baseless The state minister for home yesterday told the Jatiya Sangsad that intelligence agencies have found involvement of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and an outlawed party in the August 17 bomb blasts

Maulana Masud received Tk 1cr from UK, ME Moulana Fariduddin Masud received Tk 1 crore through his account at Sonali Bank, the bank reported to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) yesterday.