(7) "JMB man was to rebuild
HuJI: 8 Jhalakathi suspects disclose during interrogation in Dhaka," Daily Star, August 20, 2013.
Sinha said that it was premature to comment on the veracity of the
HuJI email,
When visiting Dhaka in September 2004, former State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism Cofer Black reportedly stated that he was concerned over "the potential utilization of Bangladesh as a platform for international terrorism." (29) Media reports in India increasingly are concerned that Bangladesh has the potential to become a "center of extremist Wahhabi-oriented terrorism." (30) Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (
HuJI) reportedly sent a letter to the Indian High Commission to Bangladesh in December 2004 threatening to kill the Indian cricket team if they entered Bangladesh.
It also identified the suicide bomber as
HUJI activist Dalin.
Sinha said they were taking the supposed
HuJI e-mail claim seriously but added that it would be "very premature" to confirm who was behind the bombing.
(
HUJI) commander, Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, for supporting acts of terrorism
The Assam government has said the separatist insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom might be behind the blasts, while officials said they do not rule out the hand of Islam militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, better known as
HuJI.
Police said they were investigating possible links between blast and the Indian Mujahedeen group, which they say is connected with Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and Bangladesh's
HUJI group.
The decision for an NIA probe was taken by the Ministry of Home Affairs in view of international ramifications, as the blast was linked to terrorist groups from across the border having connections with al- Qaeda, LeT and
HUJI.
The eight were kingpins and operatives of outlawed Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (
Huji).
"Recently, I spoke to one of the leading members of 313 Brigade of the Harakat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami in Wana [the largest town of South Waziristan] and he confirmed the appointment of Shah Sahib as the new leader, but added that his nomination was only for a certain period of time, and then the central shura [council] will choose a permanent amir [leader]." In addition to running 313 Brigade, Kashmiri was operational commander of the Harakat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (
HuJI), an Islamic fundamentalist militant organization most active in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India since the early 1990s.Reports of Kashmiri's death surfaced in both local and international media after a June 3 drone strike in a remote village of South Waziristan.
PESHAWAR, June 05, 2011 (Balochistan Times): Chief of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (
HuJI) Ilyas Kashmiri, cited as one of the masterminds of PNS Mehran Base and plotting series of attacks in European cities and who forged close links with the Al Qaeda, has been killed in a US drone attack.
Mukhlesur Rahman said that Farid, who was arrested Tuesday night, had been leading the Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami (
HuJI) militant outfit for several years.
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested 12 dacoits and two members of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (
HuJI) in separate raids in the capital.
