Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)
Rab arrests 6 ‘JMB members’ in Savar
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed to have arrested six suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Savar early today.
Jhalakathi public prosecutor murder: HC upholds death penalty for 5 JMB men
The High Court has confirmed the death penalty for five operatives of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for killing a public prosecutor of Jhalakati, Advocate Haider Hossain, in 2007.
4 JMB militants including northern region head arrested
Law enforcers arrest four members including head of northern region of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Shibganj upazila in Bogura.
6 JMB men get 10yrs jail in Chapainawabganj
A Chapainawabganj court has sentenced six members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to ten years' rigorous imprisonment in two separate cases.
4 ‘JMB members’ held in Mymensingh
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrests four suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), including a woman from Biddaganj Railway Station in Mymensingh.
Rab arrests 8 'members of JMB youth wing'
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested eight suspected members of a youth wing of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), including an IT professional of a ride-sharing company, from different areas in the capital over the last two days.
JMB leader killed in 'gunfight'
The chief coordinator of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Shibganj upazila early yesterday.
4 female JMB operatives jailed for 5yrs in Sirajganj
A Sirajganj court sentences four female operatives of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for five years imprisonment on charge of carrying explosive substances.
5 ‘JMB militants’ held in Naogaon
Police arrest five suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in different areas of Atrai upazila in Naogaon.
5 JMB men get life for Natore serial blast
A Natore court sentences five members of banned militant outfit JMB to life term in a case filed for serial bombing in the district on August 17, 2005.
5 ‘JMB’ men held with large cache of explosives
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claim to arrest five militants including a district-level chief of a banned militant outfit and seize a large cache of explosives in Matuail of Dhaka.
The real face of Bangladesh - moderate, secular
The high-profile arrests and deportation of 27 Bangladeshi workers from Singapore for planning violent attacks overseas may have caused some Singaporeans to wonder about Bangladesh and its people. The truth is that the country is a secular, moderate nation with a Muslim-majority population.
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!
Mirpur ‘JMB den’: 3 suspects on 4-day fresh remand
A Dhaka court places three suspected members of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) on a four-day fresh remand in a case filed under Anti-Terrorism Act.
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.
3 Ctg JMB men on 5-day remand
A Chittagong court places three members of banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), who were arrested yesterday, on a five-day remand in a case filed for terrorist activities.
Ctg JMB den busted: 3 held with sniper gun, army suits
Two days into the unearthing of a key hideout of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, crackdown on JMB regional commander's den in Chittagong yields high precision semi-automatic sniper rifle, 13 sets of military uniform, explosives and ammunition, police say. The three militants arrested are said to be senior students of Chittagong University.
‘JMB man admits’ role in Iskcon temple attack
Suspected militant of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) held over the attack on an Iskcon temple in Dinajpur is said to have confessed his role in the attack.
‘Fatwa required to combat militancy’
A group of the country's Olamas (Islamic clerics) at a view-exchange meeting say fatwa (religious edict) is needed to curb militant activities in the country.
