Bloodbath in Bangladesh

[WillowTree]

islamic militants massacre 20 people, they ask the hostages to cite passages from that book they live by and if the hostage can't do it they are slaughtered. Such savagery. This is not a mental health issue you idiots on the left. This is a world wide war on terrorism





Islamist militants kill 20 hostages in Bangladesh restaurant attack, 13 more rescued by commando raid | Fox News

 

[irosie91]

another personal anecdote----from the LIFE OF ROSIE----
>>> I was young but conscious in 1971 and working in a
place with lots of people from southeast asia WHEN WAR
BROKE OUT between "east Pakistan" and "west Pakistan"
The west Pakistanis did a GENOCIDE on east Pakistan----
so NATURALLY I was on the SIDE OF THE EAST------
-----fast forward------I came to know some BANGLAS----
in the USA----(Bangladesh is the new name for EAST PAKISTAN)------banglas are just as viciously nuts as are
west Pakistanis---(now called simply PAKISTANIS)

 

[depotoo]

U.S. Citizen Among 20 Foreigners Killed in Dhaka Terror Attack

And the 20 were killed by knives, some beheadings, at least until they removed it from the article.

 

[yiostheoy]

3 victims were attending college in the USA:

- Abinta Kabir, female, Emory Univ
- Faraaz Hossain, male, Emory Univ
- Tarushi Jain, UC Berkeley CA

It is not clear if any of them was a US citizen or rather student residents.

Total death toll 20.

There were 13 hostages rescued by the police raid on the café/bakery.

Here is the latest update:

Dhaka cafe attack ends with 20 hostages dead, 13 rescued - CNN.com

 

[depotoo]

At least abc mentions 'sharp weapons'.

The commandos also rescued 13 hostages.

Bangladesh Brig. Gen. Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury said troops recovered explosive devices and sharp weapons from the scene.


20 Hostages Killed in Bangladesh Cafe Attack Claimed by ISIS

 

[waltky]

ISIS strikes Bangladesh, 3 American college students among the dead...

Hostage crisis leaves 28 dead in Bangladesh diplomatic zone
Jul 2,`16 -- The hostages were given a test: recite verses from the Quran, or be punished, according to a witness. Those who passed were allowed to eat. Those who failed were tortured and slain.

The dramatic, 10-hour hostage crisis that gripped Bangladesh's diplomatic zone ended Saturday morning with at least 28 dead, including six of the attackers, as commandos raided the popular restaurant where heavily armed attackers were holding dozens of foreigners and Bangladeshis prisoner while hurling bombs and engaging in a gunbattle with security forces. The victims included 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, and two Bangladeshi police officers. The attack marks an escalation in militant violence that has hit the traditionally moderate Muslim-majority nation with increasing frequency in recent months, with the extremists demanding the secular government revert to Islamic rule. Most previous attacks have involved machete-wielding men singling out individual activists, foreigners and religious minorities.

But Friday night's attack was different, more coordinated, with the attackers brandishing assault rifles as they shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) and stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka's Gulshan area while dozens of foreigners and Bangladeshis were dining out during the Ramadan holy month. The gunmen, initially firing blanks, ordered restaurant workers to switch off the lights, and they draped black cloths over closed-circuit cameras, according to a survivor, who spoke with local TV channel ATN News. He and others, including kitchen staff, managed to escape by running to the rooftop or out the back door.

Hosne Ara Karim, whose son and daughter-in-law were rescued from the restaurant that was attacked by heavily armed militants, wait for them in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, July 2, 2016. Bangladesh forces stormed the restaurant where militants held dozens of people hostage for 10 hours Saturday morning.​

But about 35 were trapped inside, their fate depending on whether they could prove themselves to be Muslims, according to the father of a Bangladeshi businessman who was rescued Saturday morning along with his family. "The gunmen asked everyone inside to recite from the Quran," the Islamic holy book, according to Rezaul Karim, describing what his son, Hasnat, had witnessed inside. "Those who recited were spared. The gunmen even gave them meals last night." The others, he said, "were tortured."

Detectives were questioning his son and his family along with other survivors as part of the investigation on Saturday, as scattered details of the siege emerged. Authorities were also interrogating one of the attackers captured by commandos in dramatic morning rescue. It was not immediately clear whether the attackers had a specific goal, and Bangladesh authorities would not say if they had made any demands. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility, saying it targeted the citizens of "Crusader countries" in the attack, warning that citizens of such countries would not be safe "as long as their warplanes kill Muslims." The statement was circulated Friday by IS supporters on the Telegram messaging service and resembled previous statements by IS. It was not immediately clear if its leadership in Syria and Iraq was involved in planning the attack. The Amaq news agency, affiliated with IS, also posted photos purportedly showing hostages' bodies, though the authenticity of the images could not be confirmed.

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[depotoo]

Yeah, I heard that today and quite a few are still in icu.

may they rip

ISIS strikes Bangladesh, 3 American college students among the dead...

Hostage crisis leaves 28 dead in Bangladesh diplomatic zone
Jul 2,`16 -- The hostages were given a test: recite verses from the Quran, or be punished, according to a witness. Those who passed were allowed to eat. Those who failed were tortured and slain.

The dramatic, 10-hour hostage crisis that gripped Bangladesh's diplomatic zone ended Saturday morning with at least 28 dead, including six of the attackers, as commandos raided the popular restaurant where heavily armed attackers were holding dozens of foreigners and Bangladeshis prisoner while hurling bombs and engaging in a gunbattle with security forces. The victims included 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, and two Bangladeshi police officers. The attack marks an escalation in militant violence that has hit the traditionally moderate Muslim-majority nation with increasing frequency in recent months, with the extremists demanding the secular government revert to Islamic rule. Most previous attacks have involved machete-wielding men singling out individual activists, foreigners and religious minorities.

But Friday night's attack was different, more coordinated, with the attackers brandishing assault rifles as they shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) and stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka's Gulshan area while dozens of foreigners and Bangladeshis were dining out during the Ramadan holy month. The gunmen, initially firing blanks, ordered restaurant workers to switch off the lights, and they draped black cloths over closed-circuit cameras, according to a survivor, who spoke with local TV channel ATN News. He and others, including kitchen staff, managed to escape by running to the rooftop or out the back door.

Hosne Ara Karim, whose son and daughter-in-law were rescued from the restaurant that was attacked by heavily armed militants, wait for them in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, July 2, 2016. Bangladesh forces stormed the restaurant where militants held dozens of people hostage for 10 hours Saturday morning.​

But about 35 were trapped inside, their fate depending on whether they could prove themselves to be Muslims, according to the father of a Bangladeshi businessman who was rescued Saturday morning along with his family. "The gunmen asked everyone inside to recite from the Quran," the Islamic holy book, according to Rezaul Karim, describing what his son, Hasnat, had witnessed inside. "Those who recited were spared. The gunmen even gave them meals last night." The others, he said, "were tortured."

Detectives were questioning his son and his family along with other survivors as part of the investigation on Saturday, as scattered details of the siege emerged. Authorities were also interrogating one of the attackers captured by commandos in dramatic morning rescue. It was not immediately clear whether the attackers had a specific goal, and Bangladesh authorities would not say if they had made any demands. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility, saying it targeted the citizens of "Crusader countries" in the attack, warning that citizens of such countries would not be safe "as long as their warplanes kill Muslims." The statement was circulated Friday by IS supporters on the Telegram messaging service and resembled previous statements by IS. It was not immediately clear if its leadership in Syria and Iraq was involved in planning the attack. The Amaq news agency, affiliated with IS, also posted photos purportedly showing hostages' bodies, though the authenticity of the images could not be confirmed.

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[waltky]

A change in tactics for ISIS...

Appealing to Its Base, ISIS Tempers Its Violence in Muslim Countries
JULY 2, 2016 - The first to be killed was a jogger, gunned down last September during his daily run in the leafy diplomatic quarter of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. He was identified as a 50-year-old Italian aid worker, and the police say the men who murdered him had been given instructions to kill a white foreigner at random.

In October, a Japanese man was killed. In November, gunmen riding a motorcycle pulled alongside a Catholic priest in northern Bangladesh and opened fire, wounding him. For the Islamic State terrorist group, which broadly advised operatives it sent to Europe to kill “anyone and everyone,” the group’s tactics in Bangladesh have seemed more controlled. In the past nine months, it has claimed 19 attacks in the South Asian country, nearly all of them targeted assassinations singling out religious minorities and foreigners. They included hacking to death a Hindu man, stabbing to death a Shiite preacher, murdering a Muslim villager who had been accused of converting to Christianity and sending suicide bombers into Shiite mosques.

For years, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, has pursued a campaign of wholesale slaughter in Syria and Iraq. And in the attacks the group has directed or indirectly inspired in Western countries — including the coordinated killings in Paris and Brussels and the mass shooting inside an Orlando, Fla., nightclub — the assailants killed at random. But a closer look at the attack the Islamic State has claimed in Bangladesh — and at the fact that it has not claimed bombings attributed to it in Turkey, including the airport attack this past week — suggests a group that is tailoring its approach for different regions and for different target audiences.

“For I.S. to maintain support among its followers and prospects, it must take different considerations into account when planning an attack in a Muslim country versus non-Muslim countries,” argues Rita Katz, the director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which has tracked the group’s attacks in Bangladesh. “I.S. encourages the killing of random civilians in France, Belgium, America or other Western nations, but in a country like Turkey, I.S. must be sure that it isn’t killing Muslims — or at least make it look like it’s trying not to,” she wrote in an analysis recently published online. The issue of killing Sunni civilians has been a main point of contention with Al Qaeda after the Islamic State broke away from the terror network several years ago. And it surfaced again in the past week.
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After the triple suicide bombing at the Istanbul airport on Tuesday, a Qaeda official used Twitter to issue a stinging rebuke of the attack blamed on ISIS. “The Turkish people are Muslims, & their blood is sacred. A true mujahid would give his life up for them, not massacre them #IstanbulAttack,” wrote Abu Sulayman al-Muhajir, who has been described as an Australian member of Al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, according to a transcript provided by SITE. The Islamic State’s uncharacteristic silence about the attacks in Turkey, when it tends to quickly claim bombings elsewhere, reflects the balancing act the terror group must undertake when carrying out violence in predominantly Muslim nations, analysts say.

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[waltky]

They were members of the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh group...

Hostage-Takers Were from Bangladesh Group, Not ISIS: Minister
Jul 03, 2016 - The jihadists who slaughtered 20 hostages at a Dhaka restaurant were members of a homegrown Bangladeshi militant outfit and not followers of the Islamic State group, a senior minister said Sunday.

"They are members of the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh," Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told AFP, referring to a group which has been banned in Bangladesh for more than a decade. "They have no connections with the Islamic State," he said.

Citizens in Bangladesh participate in a candlelight vigil after attacks that killed 20 hostages and two police officers.​

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the killing of the hostages and two police officers during an 11-hour siege that ended on Saturday but the government has consistently denied that international jihadist groups are operating in Bangladesh. Police have released the names and photos of six of the attackers who were shot at the end of the siege. A seventh was arrested and is being interrogated by Bangladeshi intelligence officers.

Khan said that all of the attackers were well-educated and most came from wealthy families. "They are all highly educated young men and went to university. No one is from a madrassa," the minister said. Asked why they would have become Islamist militants, Khan said: "It has become a fashion."

Hostage-Takers Were from Bangladesh Group, Not ISIS: Minister | Military.com

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Bangladesh attack: Dhaka's Holey cafe attackers were known to police
Sun, 03 Jul 2016 - The authorities in Bangladesh name five of the men who carried out the country's worst terror attack, in Dhaka, and reveal they were known to police.

Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed when Islamist militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. Two police officers also died and 30 were injured. After a 12-hour siege commandos rescued 13 people. The so-called Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack but the government has denied this. Bangladesh's home minister said on Sunday that the attackers belonged to a local militant group which has been banned for more than a decade. "They are members of the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh," Asaduzzaman Khan said. "They have no connections with the Islamic State." Mr Khan said the men made no demands during the attack. He said three of the gunmen were under 22 and had been missing for six months.

Police chief Shahidul Hoque made some of the men's first names public: Akash, Bikash, Don, Bandhon and Ripon. Six attackers were killed in the raid on the Holey Artisan cafe in Gulshan. A seventh man was arrested and is still being questioned. It is not yet clear what involvement he had in the attack. IS had earlier released photographs of the alleged attackers posing in front of a black IS flag. The men were are said to belong to well-to-do local families and studied in private schools and universities, not in Islamic seminaries or madrassas, where many Islamist militant groups are thought to draw recruits. Social media has been buzzing with former classmates who have recognised some of the attackers from their pictures, says the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Dhaka.

Bangladesh has declared two days of national mourning for those killed. Nine Italians, seven Japanese, one US citizen and an Indian were among the dead. One Italian is unaccounted for. The JMB group in Bangladesh has been blamed for a wave of small-scale terror attacks over the past year, including the killings of secular bloggers, atheists and an LGBT rights campaigner. Its top two leaders were arrested and executed in 2008, after near-simultaneous bomb attacks in all the country's 64 districts. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has consistently denied that IS has made inroads in to Bangladesh.

Who are the victims?

 

[waltky]

Too many...

Bangladesh Mourns Victims in Dhaka Attack
July 04, 2016 | Flowers offered, candlelight vigils held for 20 people - mostly foreigners - killed when militants laid siege to upscale restaurant

Bangladesh is observing the second of two days of mourning after a group of seven Islamist militants killed 20 hostages and two police officers during an 11-hour siege at an upscale restaurant in Dhaka. A candlelight vigil was held Sunday evening, and mourners left flowers at memorials near the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka's diplomatic zone, the scene of the attack, which started Friday night. In Rome, the Campidoglio Palace was illuminated with the colors of the Italian flag as a memorial to the nine Italian victims. The families of seven Japanese killed in the attacks departed for Bangladesh on Sunday to retrieve the remains of their relatives.Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met with the families before they left and promised to give them government support.

An unidentified woman brings flowers to pay respect to the people who died at Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka.​

Bangladesh denies IS involvement

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, but any direct connection to the militant group has not been confirmed, and government officials deny IS involvement. Bangladesh's home minister said Sunday the seven attackers, six of whom were killed, had absolutely no connection with Islamic State. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said instead the jihadists were members of a homegrown militant group - Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, or JMB - which has been banned in the country for more than a decade. Khan said all of the attackers were well-educated and came from wealthy families. Reuters news agency also quoted national police chief Shahidul Hoque as saying the seven militants were all Bangladeshis, and that authorities had tried to arrest five of them in the past.

A Bangladeshi boy holds a Spiderman toy in one hand and a lighted candle in the other as he joins elders in paying tribute to those killed in the attack at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka.​

Kerry calls Hasina

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday to express condolences and offer support. A State Department release said Kerry "encouraged the government of Bangladesh to conduct its investigation in accordance with the highest international standards." He also offered assistance from U.S. law enforcement, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Bangladeshi police released photos and the first names of five of the six attackers who were killed.Police said their families had not been in contact with them for months. The government has long insisted IS has no presence in the country. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government has blamed a string of attacks in the country on her political foes, saying they back militant groups in the country in an attempt to create chaos.

Bangladeshi security forces block a road in Dhaka​

Widespread condemnation

The White House and the U.S. Department of State condemned the attack and said the United States stands with Bangladesh and is resolved to confront terror wherever it occurs. A U.N. spokesman said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hopes those behind the attack will be brought to justice and that regional and international efforts to prevent and fight terrorism must be intensified. In a televised address to the nation Saturday, Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina said her country would not let "conspirators succeed in their mission" to tarnish its image.She urged all citizens of Bangladesh to "come forward and help fight terrorism."

Kamal Hossain, a former foreign minister and law minister of Bangladesh, told VOA's Urdu Service that terrorism has nothing to do with religion, therefore Islamic State (IS) is not representative of Islam or the Muslim world. Hossain said the whole world should adopt a unified policy to deal with terrorist groups like Islamic State and al-Qaida.

Bangladesh Mourns Victims in Dhaka Attack

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Bangladesh cafe siege: The victims
Sun, 03 Jul 2016 - Who are the victims of the siege on the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka?

ITALY

* Cristian Rossi, 47, businessman, married and the father of two three-year-old twins. Mr Rossi ran a clothing consultancy, with offices in Bangladesh and China. He was on a business trip to Bangladesh
* Nadia Benedetti, 52, also worked in the textile and clothing sector. She was managing director at Studio Tex Limited, based in London, with a branch in Dhaka
* Marco Tondat, 39, worked for Studio Tex Ltd. He leaves behind a six-year-old girl
* Adele Puglisi, 54, was manager of a textiles company. She had been due back in Italy on Saturday morning. In April 2014, according to her Facebook profile, she started working at Artsana in Dhaka as quality control manager
* Simona Monti, 33, worked in a textiles firm and, according to reports in Italy, was five months pregnant
* Claudia Maria D'Antona, 56, was managing director of Fedo Trading Ltd, an Italian textile company operating in Bangladesh, where she had been living for over 20 years with her husband, Gian Galeazzo Boschetti, the only Italian to survive the attack, worked for a charity bringing medical aid to people in Bangladesh
* Vincenzo D'Allestro, 46, who was born in Switzerland but lived near Naples, and also worked in the textile industry
* Maria Rivoli, 34, who worked in the textile industry and was the mother of a three-year-old
* Claudio Cappelli, 45, who was from the Monza region and owned a clothing company

JAPAN

Seven consultants for Japan's foreign aid agency were killed. Four have so far been named, three of whom worked for works for Almec Corp, a Tokyo consulting firm specialising in construction projects:
* Makoto Okamura
* Yuko Sakai
* Rui Shimodaira
* Another, Koyo Ogasawara, worked for another construction company, Katahira & Engineers International

One hostage survived, Tamaoki Watanabe, who also worked for Almec Corp
INDIA

* Tarishi Jain, an 18-year-old year-old female student at the University of California, Berkeley.

BANGLADESH

* Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain and Abinta Kabir were named as victims in the Bangladeshi media. Both been studying at Emory University in the US, but it is thought Ms Kabir may have been a US citizen
* Ishrat Akhond was described by local media as a marketing professional
* Two police officers died on Friday night soon after the attack started

Bangladesh cafe siege: The victims - BBC News

 

[waltky]

So much for the poor, impoverished Arab on the street argument...

Like Many Islamic Terrorists, Bangladesh Attackers Well-Educated, Well-Off
July 5, 2016 – In the aftermath of a deadly terrorist attack on a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital’s diplomatic quarter, the country is struggling to come to terms with the fact that most of the perpetrators were well-educated and wealthy – far from the stereotype of the impoverished and embittered jihadi recruit.

But a regional security expert said the fact people reacted to this with “astonishment” was in itself astonishing, given the documentation that calls into question the terror-poverty link proposition. “The terrorists were from well-to-do families and were flamboyant young men,” the head of Bangladesh’s elite anti-terror unit, the Rapid Action Battalion, told India’s NDTV network. “It is difficult to imagine how they were radicalized,” said Benazir Ahmed. “At least four come from very wealthy backgrounds. Ahmed said only one of the terrorists had been educated at a madrassa. The mostly privately-run Islamic schools have at times been associated, especially in the South Asian context, with radical ideology.

Bangladeshi media reports identified one of the slain attackers as the son a mid-level official in the ruling party. Two reportedly were students at the Malaysian campus of Australia’s Monash University, while two had studied at an elite English-medium school in Dhaka, Scholastica. The suspects had gone missing or cut contact with their families months ago. A 12-hour siege began Friday night local time at the Holey Artisan restaurant and ended with 18 foreigners, including a U.S. citizen, dead, along with four Bangladeshis. Two policemen were killed. During a Saturday morning rescue operation, six of the seven terrorists who had seized the restaurant armed with bombs, guns and machetes were killed. A seventh was captured.

Thirteen hostages were rescued. Eyewitnesses who survived said the attackers had separated hostages based on whether or not they could cite the Qur’an, sparing and giving food to Muslims, but killing others. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack, although Police Inspector General Shahidul Hoque told local media the attackers were members of a local banned Salafist group, Jamaa’tul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). Formed in 1998, the JMB aims to transform Bangladesh – the world’s third-biggest Muslim-majority country after Indonesia and Pakistan – into an Islamic state governed by shari’a.

‘Fiction’

The degree to which poverty or a lack of opportunities is a key “root cause” of terrorism has long been debated, with the notion often put forward by those reluctant to point a finger directly at Islamic ideology. Secretary of State John Kerry has blamed poverty, joblessness, corruption, frustration and a desire to belong, among other factors, calling for “more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment.” President Obama has spoken of the need to address “the underlying grievances and conflicts that feed extremism – from North Africa to South Asia,” including poverty and repression. But some of the most notorious terrorists of our era have been well educated and well off, including al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. In South-East Asia, prominent members of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah network were also well-educated, among them university lecturers, businessmen and a U.S.-trained engineer.

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[waltky]

ISIS says Dhaka cafe slaughter is a harbinger of what's to come...

Islamic State says Dhaka cafe slaughter a glimpse of what's coming
Wed Jul 6, 2016 - Islamic State has warned of repeated attacks in Bangladesh and beyond until rule by sharia, Islamic law, is established, saying in a video last week's killing of 20 people in a Dhaka cafe was merely a glimpse of what is to come.

Five Bangladesh militants, most from wealthy, liberal families, stormed the upmarket restaurant on Friday and murdered customers, the majority of them foreigners, from Italy, Japan, India and the United States, before they were gunned down. "What you witnessed in Bangladesh ... was a glimpse. This will repeat, repeat and repeat until you lose and we win and the sharia is established throughout the world," said a man identified as Bangladeshi fighter Abu Issa al-Bengali, in the video monitored by SITE intelligence site. Bangladesh has rejected the Islamic State's claim of responsibility for the Friday attack and blamed it on a domestic militant group. It was one of the deadliest attacks in Bangladesh, where Islamic State and al Qaeda have claimed a series of killings of liberals and members of religious minorities in the past year. The government has also dismissed those claims.

The IS video began with pictures of recent attacks in Paris, Brussels and Orlando in the United States that the Middle East-based militants have claimed. The fighter in the video, who spoke in both Bengali and English, said Bangladesh must know that it was now part of a bigger battlefield to establish the cross-border "caliphate" the group proclaimed in 2014. "I want to tell the rulers of Bangladesh that the jihad you see today is not the same that you knew in the past," he said from a busy street in the militant group's de facto capital of Raqqa, in Syria. "The jihad that is waged today is a jihad under the shade of the Caliphate."

Policemen sneak a look inside the Holey Artisan Bakery and the O'Kitchen Restaurant as others inspect the site after gunmen attacked, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.​

Though Bangladesh has rejected the IS claim of responsibility for Friday's attack, police said they were stepping up security in response to the video threat. "We are taking this issue seriously. All our concerned units are working tirelessly," said deputy police inspector general Shahidur Rahman. Police believe the domestic Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, played a significant role in organizing the band of privileged, educated young men who carried out the attack. Police have said they are hunting for six members of the group suspected to have helped the attackers.

But foreign security experts say the scale and sophistication of the attack on the Holey Artisan bakery cafe pointed to some level of guidance from international militant groups. Officials in Dhaka said on Tuesday police commandos had mistakenly shot dead a restaurant chef during the operation to end the siege. H.T. Imam, a political adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also said security officials had seen online warnings about an impending attack on Friday and ordered major hotels and restaurants in the neighborhood of the cafe shut. But they missed the actual target, he said.

Islamic State says Dhaka cafe slaughter a glimpse of what's coming

 

[waltky]

Bangladesh hit by another extremist attack...

Bangladesh struck by another terror attack: Bombing near counrtry's largest prayer gathering
Thursday 7th July, 2016 - Bangladesh’s biggest mass Eid prayer gathering, with almost 200,000 worshippers came under attack when assailants with guns and bombs struck the area.

The traditional post-Ramadan, Eid gathering was being held 60 miles north of the capital of Dhaka, in the district of Kishoreganj with more than 200,000 worshipers offering praying when the attack rattled the Sholakia area, despite it being under a thick blanket of police security. Reports detailing the attack claimed that a group of people first attacked one of the policemen with a knife and then threw homemade bombs at a school, which was merely a kilometer away from the prayer ground. A gunfight between police officials and the attackers ensued and reports stated that the attackers threw hand bombs in retaliation.

While the prayer gathering was not said to be affected, reports claimed that two policeman and ten others were injured in the attack, while one attacker too died following the incident. Bangladesh Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said in a statement that security forces had managed to capture one of the attackers alive. Officials also stated that police officials had the group of perpetrators surrounded inside a house. Police also claimed that a day before the event they had put strict security measures in place, including stationing uniformed and plain clothes officers and installing closed circuit security cameras.

Although no immediate claim of responsibility was made for the attack, it is believed that domestic militants were backing the attack. Inu said, “It is a totally political move. They are out to destabilise the government. It is a political attack to oust and topple the secular government of Sheikh Hasina.” The domestic militants, in a bid to establish Islamic rule in the Muslim-majority nation, have been in constant clashes with the government.

The attack comes merely days after 22 people were killed in a terrorist attack carried out in the capital, that is believed to have targeted foreigners, leading to an international outcry. Incidentally, reports pointed out that ISIS had released a chilling video on Wednesday threatening more attacks in Bangladesh. The video said, “What you witnessed in Bangladesh was a glimpse. This will repeat, repeat and repeat until you lose and we win and the sharia is established throughout the world.”

Bangladesh struck by another terror attack Bombing near counrtry largest prayer gathering

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Bangladesh blast, gunbattle leave 2 dead during Eid prayers
Jul 7,`16 -- Islamic extremists in Bangladesh hurled homemade bombs and engaged in a gunbattle with police guarding a large Eid prayer at the end of the holy Muslim month Thursday morning. One officer and one suspected militant were killed, while several others were injured, officials said.

At least one of the bombs exploded during the prayer attended by hundreds of thousands of people at the sprawling Sholakia grounds the district of Kishoreganj, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of the capital of Dhaka. The grounds hold the largest open-air gatherings for the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. After the blast, police fired on the attackers and killed one of them, Assistant Superintendent Tofazzal Hossain said. The country's information minister said the target of the attack was the police convoy patrolling the religious gathering. Up to nine police constables were injured in the attack, Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told Indian broadcaster CNN-News 18.

Police cordoned off the area and searched the devotees as well as nearby houses for suspects in hiding, said resident Shafiqul Islam, who was among those offering Eid prayers. The violence comes just days after a deadly hostage crisis in which 28 people were killed, including 20 hostages, two police and six of the attackers. Most of the hostages slain during the Friday night attack on a Dhaka restaurant were foreign - from Italy, Japan and India - raising international concerns about escalating extremist violence in Bangladesh. The ongoing spate of attacks begun in 2013 has generally targeted atheists, religious minorities and others considered by militants to be "enemies of Islam."

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday's attack, but the government insisted it was carried out by domestic militants fighting to destabilize Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's secular government and establish Islamic rule in the Muslim-majority nation. "It is a totally political move. They are out to destabilize the government. It is a political attack to oust and topple the secular government of Sheikh Hasina," Inu said. Though many past attacks, including the hostage-taking, have been claimed by the Islamic State group, Hasina's government has dismissed those claims as opportunistic, and says none of the attacks have been orchestrated from abroad. Instead, Hasina's government has accused her political opponents of backing the militant agenda in Bangladesh, an allegation the opposition parties vehemently deny.

On Wednesday, the extremist Sunni Muslim group released a video warning of more attacks in Bangladesh, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi activity online. Many Bangladeshis have said they were horrified by the attacks, but determined to stand against them. "The rise of such a minuscule militancy can be rooted out very soon," said Dhaka resident Mohammad Nizam Uddin Jitu. after participating in Eid prayers on Thursday at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the capital. "The people of this country are united," he said. "The people of this country are peace loving. The people of this country never support militancy."

News from The Associated Press

 

[Kristian]

Bangladesh are funny name on one country, thoughts.

 

[Theowl32]

U.S. Citizen Among 20 Foreigners Killed in Dhaka Terror Attack

And the 20 were killed by knives, some beheadings, at least until they removed it from the article.

I was confused. How could a bunch of brown stink bombs from the middle east possibly kill a bunch of people with out using guns?

 

[Kristian]

U.S. Citizen Among 20 Foreigners Killed in Dhaka Terror Attack

And the 20 were killed by knives, some beheadings, at least until they removed it from the article.

I was confused. How could a bunch of brown stink bombs from the middle east possibly kill a bunch of people with out using guns?

Hollywood celebrite in young age I knows.

 

[waltky]

Payback time for jihadis in Bangladesh...

Bangladesh police kill nine suspected militants in raid
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 - Bangladesh police kill nine suspected Islamist militants after a gun battle in the capital Dhaka, officials say.

Police were searching the residential area of Kallyanpur when they were attacked by handmade bombs. Bangladesh has seen a string of deadly attacks on secular writers, bloggers, and member of religious minorities. Earlier this month 20 people, mostly foreigners, were killed in a bloody attack on an upmarket cafe in Dhaka. It was not immediately clear which group the suspected militants killed on Tuesday were part of. One suspect was taken into custody by police.

The police raid in Kalyanpur area, Dhaka, Bangladesh​

On 1 July, five armed men entered the Holey Artisan Bakery in the diplomatic area and held people hostage for several hours. At least 20 people died in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Since the attack, police have been conducting planned "block raids" in suspected militant hideouts. It was during one of these regular searches that the police came under attack on Tuesday, according to Deputy Police Commissioner Masud Ahmed, and retaliated with gun fire.

Analysis: The BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan in Dhaka

This is the first time several suspected Islamist militants have been killed in an operation since the Holey Artisan bakery siege. It is not yet clear which group they belonged to. Police believe that dozens of extremists are still in hiding and may be planning further attacks. The security forces have been under intense criticism for failing to prevent recent attacks and the targeted killings in the past three years. The Bangladeshi government says home-grown extremists are responsible for the violence. But the so-called Islamic State and Al-Qaeda in South Asia have claimed to have carried out some of these attacks.

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Man behind Bangladesh cafe siege killed: police
Sat, Jan 07, 2017 - An extremist accused of being one of the masterminds of last year’s deadly siege at a Bangladeshi cafe was shot dead during a pre-dawn raid in Dhaka yesterday, police said.

The bodies of Nurul Islam Marzan and another suspected extremist were found after officers raided a property in the capital’s Rayer Bazar neighborhood, a spokesman for the Dhaka Metropolitan Police told reporters. “We found two bodies. One of them was Marzan and another was a suspected extremist,” additional deputy commissioner Yusuf Ali told reporters. Ali said that Marzan, who was aged about 30, was “one of the masterminds” of the siege at the upmarket Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1 last year in which 18 foreign hostages were shot or hacked to death. Mohibul Islam Khan, the deputy chief of Dhaka police’s counterterrorism and transnational crime unit, told reporters that Marzan was shot dead during the raid by the anti-terrorism police.

Khan said Marzan was an Arabic student at Chittagong University before he dropped out and joined an offshoot of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a homegrown extremist group which has been blamed for the cafe attack. “Along with Tamim [Ahmed Chowdhury], Marzan planned the Gulshan attack,” he said, referring to the Canadian citizen of Bangladeshi descent who police described as the main mastermind of the attack. Chowdhury was killed in another raid outside the capital in August last year. Police intelligence had found that Marzan organized the cafe siege and was its operational commander, Khan said.

The Islamic State (IS) organization claimed responsibility for the cafe attack, posting images of the carnage as it happened and photographs of the gunmen who had posed with the IS’ black flag. Bangladesh is reeling from a wave of attacks on foreigners, rights advocates and members of religious minorities. While many of those attacks have been claimed by the IS or al-Qaeda, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s secular government has blamed local militants, denying that international extremists have gained a foothold in Bangladesh.

The country’s security forces launched a deadly crackdown against extremists following the cafe siege, which badly undermined Bangladesh’s reputation as a relatively moderate Muslim nation. Since the cafe attack, security forces have shot about 50 extremists, including most of the alleged kingpins of JMB. Critics say Hasina’s administration is in denial about the nature of the threat posed by the extremists and accuse her of trying to exploit the attacks to demonize her domestic opponents.

Man behind Bangladesh cafe siege killed: police - Taipei Times