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November 29, 2005
Bangladesh: Muslim Suicide Bombings Hit Two Courts
News from New Nation, the Daily Star, the Bangladesh Independent and also the Turkish Press.
At 8.44 am local time a bomb attack happened at a police checkpoint outside the Chittagong Court, and at 9.45am local time this morning, a second attack was carried out in a crowd of lawyers and clients at the Gazipur bar association building.
The second attack killed the suicide bomber (pictured, left), and also three others who died on the spot, with a woman victim dying in Dhaka Medical College shortly afterwards. Two hours later two more died. The dead included two active members of the bar association and one who had retired. 17 others were seriously wounded.
The bomb is believed to have been strapped to the killer's thigh, which had the flesh ripped away. He entered the crowded room on the ground floor wearing a lawyer's gown. His identity has not been ascertained. His body, with wires wrapped around his thighs and waist, was left on the floor for two hours before being taken away.
The earlier attack from Chittagong killed two policemen, but the bomber, Abul Bashar from Narau village in Tangail, despite blowing off both his legs and wrists, was still living, and doctors were still trying to keep him alive. He had hurled a bomb into the court, and then detonated his explosives. He is pictured below, on the top right of the pictures against a green background. Five other police officers were critically wounded in the blast, as well as another would-be-suicide bomber.
A letter found in his trouser pocket claimed that he was a fedayee (fidayin or suicide bomber) for JMB's mission to establish the rule of Islam. "We will continue our Jihadi mission until establishing an Islamic welfare state," it read.
JMB, or Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh have been threatening attacks against the judiciary as recently as this weekend. They have previously killed two judges at Jhalakathi on November 14, and on October 3, they killed two people and injured ten including a judge in three blasts at courthouses in Chandur, Laxmipur and Chittagong, scene of todays first attack.
The JMB's recent campaign of violence, which is intended to set up an Islamic state based on Sharia law, commenced on August 17 this year, when 459 bombs were detonated throughout the country. 2 people were killed and more than 100 injured, in bombings which occurred simultaneously in 63 of the country's 64 districts.
In todays blasts, a total ten people have been killed, and 21 are seriously injured, with many others suffering less serious injuries.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 29, 2005 4:30 PM
Comments
It was really horrible! First I want to share my feelings with the families who had lost their beloved ones. It is shame to say that I am living in a place where the society is going to be a vicious place. One thing is to say that, suicide bombing attack is new in Bangladesh. Though Bangladesh is a moderate country where all people of different religions have their freedom to do their religious and social works, but recently violent attitudes of some so called Muslims have been growing rapidly. What I want to say, these Muslims do not know what they are doing, specially the suicide bombers thought that they are sacrificing their life in the road of Islam they thought they are doing this for almighty Allah. But alas, they don’t know what Islam is? They don’t know, they are doing these things only for the satisfaction of their superiors. Finally who is getting the benefit? The people who are pushing these poor men/women as a suicide attacker. Please, Allah blasé them.
Posted by: Shuvo Bakar at November 30, 2005 3:59 AM
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