Chittagong Division (Islamist Terrorism): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2015

Some unidentified men gunned down President of anti-terrorism committee in Chandraganj area of Lakshmipur District on September 1, reports Dhaka Tribune. The victim is Omar Faroque (45), President of Chandraganj Police Station unit Sontrash Nirmul Committee. The killing appeared just one day after he was awarded by Additional IGP (Admin) Mukhlesur Rahman for playing a pivotal role to root out terrorists. Police helped to form the committee to prevent the local terrorists and Omar was made President of it. Read less...

Police arrested a Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) leader from Patiya sub-District of Chittagong District on September 2 on charge of planning sabotage, reports The Daily Star. The arrestee is Mozaffar Ahmed (52), ameer (chief) of Patiya unit of JeI. Read less...

Police on September 4 arrested five leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) in Chittagong District in connection with cases filed over subversive activities, reports The Daily Star. Among the arrestees are Mohammad Ayiub, general secretary of Chunoti union unit of JeI; and Muhamad Ismail, president of Satkania municipality JeI. Read less...

Police on September 5 arrested two cadres of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) in Satkania sub-District of Chittagong District in connection with cases filed over subversive activities, reports The Daily Star. The arrestees are Rezaul Karim (56) and Sajjad Hossain Saju (23). One light gun and two bullets were recovered from them. Read less...

Intelligence agencies on September 6 unearthed an Islamist plot to blow up over 100 Navy and Coast Guard bases and oil refineries in southeastern Chittagong city of Chittagong District, reports Times of India. A lesser-known outfit called Hilful Fuzul al Islami planned to carry out gas bomb explosions in collaboration with several other banned Islamist groups in retaliation to an escalated security clampdown against the militants, according to the report. "They have targeted more than 100 Government and non Government installations on both the sides of the Chittagong Port Channel where the Coast Guard's West Zone Base, Navy’s Moazzem Base and Isha Khan are located," said the report. It added that the Hilful Fuzul also hatched plots to carryout sabotages at the main depots of four refineries in the port city. Read less...

A team of Army arrested a suspected militant, identified as Nantu Chakma (45), and recovered a machine gun, two sub-machine guns, two self-loading rifles and a huge amount of ammunition during a raid on a remote hillock of Dighinala upazila (Sub-District) in Khagrachhari District on September 7, reports New Age. A team of army responded to a tip off that an armed terrorist group of 25 would stay overnight at three houses on the hillock of Sadhukchhara at Dighinala, said an Inter Service Public Relations release issued from Dhaka. The team raided the houses early on September 7, and arrested Nantu with firearms. Other accomplices, however, fled. The army also recovered a grenade, nine magazines of various firearms, about 350 rounds of bullets, seven army uniforms with bandoliers, eight mobile phones and torches from the spot. Read less...

Police detained 41 suspected leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), in Farmgate Hotel of Dhaka city on September 11, reports Daily Star. The detention was made after the law enforcers raided the 12th floor of the hotel where ICS cadres were holding a meeting, said Biplob Kumar Sarker, Deputy Commissioner (Tejgaon division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. Meanwhile, Police detained 10 ICS cadres from a mess in Dakkhin Gobindarkheel area of Patiya sub-District in Chittagong District on September 11, on the same charge. Some leaflets, banners, posters and jihadi books were recovered from them, said Police. Read less...

Md Zakir Hossain (28), one cadre of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), who is wanted in 17 cases, was arrested at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong city on September 13, while he was about to fly to Sudan, reports The Daily Star. Hossain, of Chitly Dakkhinpara area in Mithapukur upazila (Sub-District) in Rangpur District, was handed over to Patenga Police. Read less...

Police arrested five activists of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) during overnight drives in Satkania sub-District of Chittagong District on September 28, reports The Daily Star. Police said that they were accused in several cases filed over subversive activities in the sub-District. Read less...