'Their plan was to recruit Rohingyas to their outfit'
Counterterrorism officials claimed to have arrested six members of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh (Huji-B) from different areas in Dhaka yesterday.
They are: Fakhrul Islam, 58, his son Saiful Islam, 24, Suruzzaman, 45, Abdullah Al Mamun, 23, Din Islam, 25 and Abdullah Al Mamun, 46.
Police also found videos on how to make bombs in their mobile phones, Md Asaduzzaman, chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit, told a press briefing today.
Once a security guard at a madrasa in Gazipur, Fakhrul went to Pakistan in 1988 where he met a Bangladeshi born Al-Qaeda commander Mufti Jakir Hossain.
With him, Fakhrul went to Afghanistan and took training on arms. He then met Al-Qaeda leader Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden, CTTC officials said.
Fakhrul returned to Bangladesh in 1998.
As several Huji-B leaders including Mufti Hannan were executed later on, Fakhrul has been collecting new members, collecting money and conducting activities through social media to continue the militant activities.
Fakhrul and his son Saiful along with other Huji members donated a huge amount of money to Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar camps for the purpose of recruiting them to their outfit.
The arrestees admitted that they used to use secret and encrypted apps to communicate among themselves and share extremism provoking contents including bomb making manuals and videos.
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