Staff Reporter :
The special anti-militant drive of joint forces have raised a bunch of questions among the concerned circle as most of the militants were killed in the shootout, but the none of the law enforcers got hurt. It’s a big question whether it was a “gunfight” or a one-sided shootout. According to information provided by law enforcement agencies, the militants had only four pistols and some IED [improvised explosive device], also known as homemade grenades.
Is it possible to continue a gunfight for six hours against a strong joint force with theses arms-explosives?
There were other questions – did the militants go to bed wearing black pajama-panjabi and keds? And how could you label them as militants without knowing their name and address?
Chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes Unit Md Monirul Islam, however, answered all the questions in a Facebook post yesterday [Wednesday].
Monirul Islam, also Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police said that those who could not accept the successful drive n Kalyanpur operation are now raising question about the authenticity of it. A section of people are now spreading conspiracy theories on social media claiming that Kalayanpur drive was a police set up.
“The entire social media is discussing that neighbours said people (militants) in that flat had chanted slogans in favour of so called jihad, IS flag was found in their room, huge books on extremism were found. Still, is there any research necessary to understand whether they are militants?” Monirul said raising counter question.
He also said that one does not need to be an intellectual to understand whether the militants had time to sleep, wear such dress in between around 1:00am to 5:50am.
In his facebook post, the CTTCU Chief also picked several questions and answered them refuting the statement of few people who are terming the drive as a police set up.
