DHAKA, Nov 21 – Bangladesh police said they had raided a secret training centre and arrested 14 suspected Islamist militants on Saturday.
Training materials, communication equipments and jihadi books were also seized during the raid near Jenaidah 250km west of the capital Dhaka.
“We believe that the training centre has been run by the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and the detained people were new recruits of the group,” a senior police officer said without giving further details.
Like several other banned groups JMB want to turn mostly Muslim Bangladesh of 150 million people to a syariah-based Islamic country.
JMB was blamed for a series of deadly bomb attack in Bangladsesh in late 2005, killing some 30 people –- mostly judges, police and journalists.
The authorities executed six top JMB leaders in March 2007 and police have continued to hunt for group members, often detaining suspected militants following intelligence tips. – Reuters
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