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Bangladesh clamps down on JMB militants
08 October 2009
A police officer shows materials used in making explosives allegedly confiscated from the house of 'Boma' Mizan in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 15 May 2009. (PA)
On 5 October, five Jamaat ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants were convicted in Kishoreganj district and face 14 years' imprisonment, the local newspaper Daily Star reported.
The newspaper also reported that a further 25 JMB militants were produced before four courts in Mymensingh district on the same day. The Daily Star stated that a man known as Abdur Rahim, reportedly the second-in-command of the Chittagong division of the JMB, was arrested along with bomb-making material during the raid by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
The most recent significant arrest of a JMB militant in the capital occurred in May, when the RAB arrested explosives expert Zahidul Islam Sumon (alias 'Boma' Mizan).