Staff Reporter :
The voice analysis suggested that Tahmid Rahman Shafi was the narrator of the latest Islamic State (IS) video over the city’s Gulshan Cafe attackers.
This was disclosed by Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit Chief Monirul Islam while speaking with the newsmen at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Media Centre on Monday afternoon.
“We confirmed the voice of the narrator through voice recognition
software,” the DMP spokesman said. Asked about the origin of the video, Monirul said, “The video was not uploaded in Bangladesh. It was uploaded from abroad.”
However, he did not mention any specific location from where the video had been uploaded.
Earlier, Sweden-based journalist Tasneem Khalil confirmed that the voice of the narrator was of Shafi. Tasneem, who monitors online activities of jihadists, used some software tools to identify the voice.
On September 23, the Islamic State group released a new video featuring the five terrorists who killed 23 people, including 17 foreigners at a Gulshan café on July 1.
In the 15-minute video message-both in Bangla and Arabic, the international terrorist group calls on jihadists to launch armed attacks on the atheists, apostates and crusaders as revenge to the persecution on IS fighters in Iraq and Syria, and elsewhere.
Thirty-year-old Tahmid Shafi is the son of former Election Commissioner and Home Secretary late Shafiur Rahman.
“Tahmid was a singer who was passionate about music since childhood. So much so that he made it to the top 15 in the first season of the country’s popular talent hunt show Close Up 1,” his friends said.
Shafi, who worked as a teacher at an English medium school before going missing in mid-2015, and two of his Bangladeshi associates spoke on camera in the first IS video released from Raqqa, Syria on July 6 hailing the Holey Artisan Bakery attack.
The voice analysis suggested that Tahmid Rahman Shafi was the narrator of the latest Islamic State (IS) video over the city’s Gulshan Cafe attackers.
This was disclosed by Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit Chief Monirul Islam while speaking with the newsmen at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Media Centre on Monday afternoon.
“We confirmed the voice of the narrator through voice recognition
software,” the DMP spokesman said. Asked about the origin of the video, Monirul said, “The video was not uploaded in Bangladesh. It was uploaded from abroad.”
However, he did not mention any specific location from where the video had been uploaded.
Earlier, Sweden-based journalist Tasneem Khalil confirmed that the voice of the narrator was of Shafi. Tasneem, who monitors online activities of jihadists, used some software tools to identify the voice.
On September 23, the Islamic State group released a new video featuring the five terrorists who killed 23 people, including 17 foreigners at a Gulshan café on July 1.
In the 15-minute video message-both in Bangla and Arabic, the international terrorist group calls on jihadists to launch armed attacks on the atheists, apostates and crusaders as revenge to the persecution on IS fighters in Iraq and Syria, and elsewhere.
Thirty-year-old Tahmid Shafi is the son of former Election Commissioner and Home Secretary late Shafiur Rahman.
“Tahmid was a singer who was passionate about music since childhood. So much so that he made it to the top 15 in the first season of the country’s popular talent hunt show Close Up 1,” his friends said.
Shafi, who worked as a teacher at an English medium school before going missing in mid-2015, and two of his Bangladeshi associates spoke on camera in the first IS video released from Raqqa, Syria on July 6 hailing the Holey Artisan Bakery attack.
