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Suspected Islamic State 'Coordinator' Arrested in Dhaka
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Police in Bangladesh arrested a suspected member of Islamic State (IS) in Dhaka, a senior officer said today, following the detention days earlier of two other suspects, including an IT manager at a subsidiary of a cola company.
Police in Bangladesh arrested a suspected member of Islamic State (IS) in Dhaka, a senior officer said today, following the detention days earlier of two other suspects, including an IT manager at a subsidiary of a cola company.
The suspect picked up on Saturday night was a coordinator for IS in Bangladesh, Shaikh Nazmul Alam, a deputy commissioner of Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division, told Reuters.
"We arrested him with hundreds of training related videos for Islamist extremists, and also a large number of books on al Qaeda and IS translated into Bangla," Alam said.
Police said the detained man was Abdullah Al Galib, a former member of Hizbut Tahrir, and a follower of Ansarullah Bangla Team, two militant Islamist groups in Bangladesh.
"We have been following him for a long time and arrested him yesterday night from Banani, a posh area of the city," Alam said.
Police have arrested more than a dozen people suspected of links with Islamic State, amid growing fears that the group could be extending its influence in South Asia.
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