bdnews24.com :
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) says it will have a team of officers visit Bangladesh soon.
A top NIA official told bdnews24.com that the team would seek to interrogate, with due assistance and support from Bangladesh’s security agencies, some of the Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activists arrested in the past one week. The official said the NIA was particularly keen to check out a new kind of gel explosive that the JMB seems to have brought into South Asia in large quantities.
The seizure of a large quantity of this explosive has left the NIA worried
because this could trigger deadly explosions and the explosives could be smuggled in rather easily. “We suspect this has been brought in through Nepal. We want to check on the source of this explosive and the route used by the JMB to smuggle it into West Bengal and Bangladesh,” the NIA official said.
In 2006, the British police foiled a trans-Atlantic plot at Heathrow airport, in which seven terrorists, travelling from the UK to the US and Canada, were caught carrying a similar kind of gel explosives.
“Gelignite does not suffer ‘sweating’, meaning the leaking of unstable nitroglycerine from the solid matrix. Its composition makes it easily malleable, thus easier to handle. It is one of the cheapest but most deadly explosives,” said a top military intelligence expert on explosives. The NIA also wants to check out on the latest revelations made by the arrested JMB activists, especially those nabbed by the RAB at Mirpur and by a joint team at Gazipur. The NIA also suspects that three of the JMB men arrested in Gazipur may have their roots in West Bengal.
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) says it will have a team of officers visit Bangladesh soon.
A top NIA official told bdnews24.com that the team would seek to interrogate, with due assistance and support from Bangladesh’s security agencies, some of the Jamaat-Ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activists arrested in the past one week. The official said the NIA was particularly keen to check out a new kind of gel explosive that the JMB seems to have brought into South Asia in large quantities.
The seizure of a large quantity of this explosive has left the NIA worried
because this could trigger deadly explosions and the explosives could be smuggled in rather easily. “We suspect this has been brought in through Nepal. We want to check on the source of this explosive and the route used by the JMB to smuggle it into West Bengal and Bangladesh,” the NIA official said.
In 2006, the British police foiled a trans-Atlantic plot at Heathrow airport, in which seven terrorists, travelling from the UK to the US and Canada, were caught carrying a similar kind of gel explosives.
“Gelignite does not suffer ‘sweating’, meaning the leaking of unstable nitroglycerine from the solid matrix. Its composition makes it easily malleable, thus easier to handle. It is one of the cheapest but most deadly explosives,” said a top military intelligence expert on explosives. The NIA also wants to check out on the latest revelations made by the arrested JMB activists, especially those nabbed by the RAB at Mirpur and by a joint team at Gazipur. The NIA also suspects that three of the JMB men arrested in Gazipur may have their roots in West Bengal.
