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Bangladesh Probes Terror Attack as Government Disputes ISIS Claim of Repsonsibility
Source: ABC News
Bangladesh Probes Terror Attack as Government Disputes ISIS Claim of Repsonsibility
By DAVID CAPLAN - Jul 3, 2016, 4:17 AM ET
Bangladeshi security officials searched on Sunday for evidence and the possible masterminds of the weekend hostage-taking in an upscale restaurant in Bangladesh's capital.
The government has denied claim of responsibility by ISIS for the attack that left 28 dead, including six attackers and 20 of the hostages, among them three students at U.S. universities.
Police released photographs of the bodies of five attackers, along with their first names: Akash, Badhon, Bikash, Don and Ripon. The men belonged to the banned domestic group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, or JMB, and their families hadn't heard from them in months, according to police. Asked whether they might also have had ISIS ties, Police Inspector General A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque said authorities were investigating that possibility.
Despite the police saying ISIS links were being investigated, the home minister refuted the possibility that the terror group directed the attack from abroad.
Bangladesh's government insists the extremist Sunni Muslim group based in Syria and Iraq has no presence in the country, and in the past has suggested that any claims of responsibility for violence waged in the South Asian country are simply opportunistic attempts at grabbing global attention.
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By DAVID CAPLAN - Jul 3, 2016, 4:17 AM ET
Bangladeshi security officials searched on Sunday for evidence and the possible masterminds of the weekend hostage-taking in an upscale restaurant in Bangladesh's capital.
The government has denied claim of responsibility by ISIS for the attack that left 28 dead, including six attackers and 20 of the hostages, among them three students at U.S. universities.
Police released photographs of the bodies of five attackers, along with their first names: Akash, Badhon, Bikash, Don and Ripon. The men belonged to the banned domestic group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, or JMB, and their families hadn't heard from them in months, according to police. Asked whether they might also have had ISIS ties, Police Inspector General A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque said authorities were investigating that possibility.
Despite the police saying ISIS links were being investigated, the home minister refuted the possibility that the terror group directed the attack from abroad.
Bangladesh's government insists the extremist Sunni Muslim group based in Syria and Iraq has no presence in the country, and in the past has suggested that any claims of responsibility for violence waged in the South Asian country are simply opportunistic attempts at grabbing global attention.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/bangladesh-refutes-isis-role-terror-attack-domestic-group/story?id=40310319
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Source: BBC
Bangladesh attack: Dhaka's Holey cafe attackers were known to police
3 July 2016 Asia
Bangladeshi officials have named five of the men who carried out the country's worst terror attack on Friday and said they were known to police.
Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed when Islamist militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka.
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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 told the AFP news agency. "They have no connections with the Islamic State."
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3 July 2016 Asia
Bangladeshi officials have named five of the men who carried out the country's worst terror attack on Friday and said they were known to police.
Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed when Islamist militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka.
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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 told the AFP news agency. "They have no connections with the Islamic State."
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36698721
