http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/militants-grow-silence-1235527
Posted on 07/01/2016 10:12:55 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
REUTERS - Bangladesh has seen an increase in militant violence in the last year-and-a-half, with a series of deadly attacks targeting atheists, gays, liberals, foreigners and members of religious minorities in the mostly Muslim country of 160 million people.
Where is this place?
I think if they are not already there...all of our international schools and embassies should have helicopter landing pads on the roofs so we can just get in there and get our citizens out. And while we’re at it.. why are we still in these places? Can’t we effectively do business remotely now?
This is reportedly a mile from the US Embassy. I wonder if a Marine FAST unit was deployed? I doubt it.
That would probably require an Obama authorization. Chances of getting it ... zip.
According to a report in the Bangladesh newspaper The Daily Star, Chowdhury now uses the alias Shaykh Abu Ibrahim Al-Hanif, who was identified in the latest edition of the ISIL propaganda magazine Dabiq as the “emir” of its branch in Bangladesh.
In the magazine, distributed in April, Al-Hanif comes across as a violent hatemonger, referring to Hinduism as a “filthy, cow-worshipping religion” and threatening to “slaughter” those who did not subscribe to his militant version of Islam.
“We let our actions do the talking,” the lengthy interview quoted him saying. “And our soldiers are presently sharpening their knives to slaughter the atheists, the mockers of the prophet and every other apostate in the region.”
Although not large, the Bangladeshi ISIL branch is believed to have committed more than two dozen murders over the past 18 months, Zayadul Ahsan wrote in the Daily Star, which said some members were veterans of the Syrian conflict.
“Targets of the so-called IS include a wide spectrum of people — Hindu, Christian, Buddhist or Bahai leaders,” as well as Shias, spiritual leaders, university teachers, religious converts and foreigners, among others, Ahsan wrote.
Chowdhury detained
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