Siddique ul-Islam , known popularly as Bangla Bhai ( 1970 – 30 March, 2007), also known as Aziz ur-Rahman Azizur Rôhman, was a Bangladeshi Islamic terrorist and the military commander of the Al Qaeda affiliated radical pseudo-Islamist organization Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (Awakened Muslim Masses of Bangladesh), known in popular usage as the JMJB. Most active in the north-western section of Bangladesh around the Rajshahi region, Bangla Bhai gained a nationwide and worldwide notoriety for bombings
and other terrorist activities.Siddique ul-Islam fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s as a Mujahedin fighter, some believe directly reporting to Osama Bin Laden. Upon his return to Bangladesh, he taught Bengali language for some time. Islam joined the ranks of the JMJB and became the commander of military affairs and an acting member of the Majlis-e-Sura, its decision-making committee. Bangla bhai became infamous for the torture and intimidation of the opponents of JMJB and the minorities.
On August 17, 2005, JMJB, under Islam's leadership, launched a nation-wide attack by exploding 500 makeshift bombs. Along with Shaykh Abdur Rahman, Islam is alleged to have masterminded the bombing. In late 2005, a series of suicide bomb attacks rocked Bangladesh. JMJB and Jamaat-al-Mujahedin Bangladesh have claimed responsibility of these attacks.
Police say that more than 50 people have been arrested in connection with the blasts.
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia condemned the attacks as "cowardly".
In each incident, bombs were set off in crowded spots, mainly at government offices, journalists' clubs and courts, between 1030 and 1130 local time.
Mr Babor said timing devices were found at the scenes of blasts but most of the bombs were small, homemade devices - wrapped in tape or paper.
Leaflets from the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh have appeared at the site of some of the blasts.
"It is time to implement Islamic law in Bangladesh" and "Bush and Blair be warned and get out of Muslim countries", the leaflets say.
the British High Commissioner in Bangladesh was hurt in a grenade explosion at a Muslim shrine in the north-eastern town of Sylhet.
Bangla Bhai Interview
OPERATION MUKTAGACHHA
On 6 March, 2006 the Rab intelligence team and Rab-9 rushed to Mymensingh in the early hours yesterday and captured Bangla Bhai's wife Fahima and minor son Saad from a house on RK Mission Road in the town at about 5:00am. Acting on her information, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) men led by its intelligence wing chief Lt Col Gulzar Uddin Ahmed encircled the house of a village doctor Umed Ali at Rampur in Muktagachha, 30 kilometres off Mymensingh, at about 7:00am and started searching for Bangla Bhai.
As Rab Sergeant Rafiq, who was posted in an adjacent tin-roofed house, tried to peep into the room to see who were inside, Bangla Bhai shot him once in the head with a submachine carbine. The Rab men then took the wounded sergeant away to safety.
"When Bangla Bhai hit Sergeant Rafiq, our runner Sattar identified him [Bangla Bhai] and raised an alarm," Commander Mahsuk Hasan, Rab media wing chief, told reporters at Mymensingh.
At this point Rab intelligence wing chief Lt Col Gulzar Uddin Ahmed asked Bangla Bhai on a loudhailer to surrender saying that Rab has encircled the whole area. "Bangla Bhai, you have no way to escape. It will be better for you to surrender," Gulzar said.
Source:http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/03/07/d6030701011.htm
Bangla Bhai, five other militants to hang
In the period of Caretaker govt. of Bangladesh (2008) Six militants including Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman and his number two, the dreaded Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai wereto hang for murdering two judges after the Supreme Court rejected their review petition .
Provable relation between Bangla bhai and BDR incidence 2009
BANGLADESH'S BORDER security force, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutinied in capital Dhaka on Wednesday (February 25) morning asking for better pay and facilities. The soldiers of BDR shouted slogans against the government and are reported to have taken Major General Shakil Ahmed as hostage.
The mutiny by BDR men triggered several gun battles in the capital city leading to a number of casualties. 180 officers have also been killed at BDR headquarters located in Dhaka's Pilkhana area including Major General Shakil Ahmed and Colonel Gulzar Uddin who had captured Bangla Bhai.
Actually it was a tremendous loss for JMB who was working convert Bangladesh into a terrorist country and Bangladesh Army was quite responsible for this. BDR incidence 2009 may be the revenge.
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