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*** 28-Mar-17 World View -- Bangladesh recovers from a four-day terror attack in Sylhet

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  • Bangladesh recovers from a four-day terror attack in Sylhet
  • ISIS claims credit for Sylhet Bangladesh terror attack

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**** Bangladesh recovers from a four-day terror attack in Sylhet
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Apartment building in Sylhet were terror attack took place (ISPR)

Bangladesh's army on Monday said that all militants involved in a
four-day terror attack in Sylhet, in northeastern Bangladesh, have
been killed. The army says that the anti-terrorism operation has not
yet been completed, because the building may be booby-trapped with
numerous improvised explosive devices.

The army commandos on Monday shot dead the remaining militants wearing
suicide vests. The militants were equipped with small arms,
explosives and grenades, and laid out booby traps at different corners
of the building, creating a situation which slowed down the operations
progress at the building.

The four-day siege began on Friday. On Saturday, two powerful bombs
exploded, killing six people, including two police officers, and
injuring about 50, including two army officers. Since Friday, 12
people have been killed.

One of the dead militants was a woman, part of an increasing trend in
the participation of female jihadists. Bangladesh's police crime
management believes that the use of women is a sign of desperation, as
the militant groups become weaker:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"Militants now cannot carry out their activities in an
> organized way as they've got scattered due to repeated crackdowns
> by Police and RAB. So, they're now desperate and preferring to
> conduct suicide attacks. As they're getting alienated from their
> own groups, the militants are now trying to motivate their family
> members to indulge in militant activities."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

The Bangladeshi authorities discovered the first female jihadist unit
in July 2016, and arrested four female militants, including the
"advisor" of the women's unit.

Dhaka Tribune and India TV News and South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP - India)


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**** ISIS claims credit for Sylhet Bangladesh terror attack
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There are numerous indigenous militant groups in Bangladesh, most
notably Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), which has taken credit
for a number of terrorist attacks. In recent months, terror attacks
in Bangladesh have killed at least 70 Bangladeshis and some
foreigners.

No indigenous jihadist group has taken credit for the Sylhet terror
attack, although JMB is suspected as the perpetrator. On the other
hand, the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) has
taken credit for it, through its public relations agency Amaq
al-Akhbariyah.

The ISIS question has stirred a debate in Bangladesh. The government
says that ISIS has not come to Bangladesh, and that all terror attacks
are indigenous. Some journalists are ridiculing this position. One
particularly telling example occurred in July of last year, at the
Holey Artisan in Dhaka, where five gunmen killed 29 people. ISIS's
public relations agency posted pictures of some of the dead victims on
its web site while the terror attack was still in progress.

So what does it mean for ISIS, which is a Syrian organization, to take
credit for a terror attack halfway around the world in Bangladesh? No
reports indicate that there were any Syrians in Bangladesh taking part
in any of these attacks. The militants were all Bangladeshi. So what
does it mean for ISSI to take credit?

We know that some militant groups "pledge allegiance" to ISIS,
whatever that means. Obviously, in the case of the Holey Artisan
attacks, indigenous militants can be in contact via mobile phones to
ISIS's public relations agency. Perhaps ISIS is providing money to
some indigenous militant groups, but that seems unlikely, given that
ISIS in Syria has little money to spare for its own operations.

There's a creeping fear that ISIS taking over the world, when in fact,
as far as I know, ISIS is simply taking credit for any terror attacks
it can, even though it has nothing to do with them. That's a great
public relations stunt, but it seems more like a sign of desperation
than anything else.

However, as I've written several times in the past, many of these
terror attacks are an outcome of the bloody civil war of 1971 that
created the nation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan. There are
two ethnic groups in Bangladesh, the dominant Bengalis and the
subservient Biharis, an outcome of the the 1971 civil war. Today,
there are hundreds of thousands of Biharis living in refugee camps in
filthy conditions, with the largest camp just north of Dhaka. This
situation is a breeding ground for terrorists, and is a better
explanation for what's going on than ISIS. Daily Star (Dhaka) and Dhaka Tribune and VOA and AP

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Bangladesh, Sylhet, Dhaka,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Amaq al-Akhbariyah, Bengalis, Biharis,
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, JMB, East Pakistan

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