Affiliate of IS group claims Bangladesh Shiite mosque attack

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Affiliate of IS group claims Bangladesh Shiite mosque attack

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Islamic State group affiliate in Bangladesh said Friday it was behind an attack on a Shiite mosque in the country's north that killed one man and wounded three others.

A statement posted on IS-affiliated Twitter accounts from Islamic State - Bangladesh said that the mosque was hit by a barrage of shots fired form machine guns.

At least five assailants fired on worshippers during evening prayers Thursday at the mosque in Haripur village in the Bogra district. A mosque official in his 70s who had been leading the prayers was killed.

Police on Friday detained two suspects for questioning, said local police official Arifur Rahman.

He said the men were picked up from the area of the attack. Details of their identities were not clear immediately.

The statement from the IS offshoot said "the soldiers of the caliphate targeted a place of worship for the apostates" built with funds from Iran. It vowed more such attacks.

Thursday's attack follows a wave of deadly assaults this year on foreigners, secular writers and the Shiite community in the Sunni-majority nation of 160 million.

The attacks have alarmed the international community and raised concerns that religious extremism is growing in the traditionally moderate South Asian nation.

Bangladesh's government has repeatedly denied the presence of the IS group in the impoverished nation.

Police have arrested six members of the banned local group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, in connection with the Oct. 24 bombing of an annual rally of thousands of Shiite Muslims in Dhaka, according to senior Detective Branch official Munirul Islam. The bombs, lobbed into the crowd as people were gathering for an early morning procession through the capital, killed a teenage boy and wounded more than 100 people.

Authorities had quickly dismissed a claim of responsibility by the Islamic State group in that attack too, saying it had no presence in the country, and that the culprits were likely from Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh.

Security officials on Thursday killed the alleged mastermind of the Oct. 24 attack, Al Bani, during a gunfight in a Dhaka suburb, Islam said.

Islam described Bani as the military commander of the group, and said he and his accomplices opened fire on security forces as they were preparing to conduct a raid.

The Islamic State group has also claimed responsibility for the killings of two foreigners — an Italian aid worker and a Japanese agricultural worker — but again the government said IS has no organizational presence in the country.

The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuses domestic Islamist groups along with the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its main Islamist ally, the Jamaat-e-Islami party, of carrying out the attacks to destabilize the country for political gains.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-11-27

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Shia's and Sunni's always the same story. I prefer Shia's over Sunni's.

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This so-called ISIS intercontinental terror group, in just 20 days..

they managed to blast the Russian plane in Sinai ..

they managed to blast the suburb or Beirut / Lebanon ...

they managed the recent bombing attacks in Paris and kill 130 people ...

All these events done in less than 20 days.. !!! what a super masterminds of ISIS terrosits !!??

But ......in 3 years operating on Syrian territory ::

they could not manage to explode just one single bombing attack similar to Paris in Damascus which is a total insecure city !? (we dont hope this to happen), just to think logically, and ask, are these black devil-minded ruthless ISIS terrorists bombing selectively?

they could not recruit one person to carry such attack in other parts under the control of Assad's regime? (we dont hope this to happen), just to ask, how come to be so like this?

they could not manage one single bombing inside Iran ( the shiite state) which supposed to be on the top list of their terrorist targets? as Iran is just across the Iraqi border, (we dont hope this to happen, and will never happen)

So you guess where is the remot control of these clumsy idiot vagabon dogs.. !!

Just to make an approximating calculations and come up with some logical idea ....

But, ....The intercontinental ISIS terrorist agency,

they could go much faraway around 4000 km to reach Paris and manage a such bombing attacks !!!

while they can't just go for 400 km to Tehran the Iranian capaital?, which supposed their most hated enemy?! isn't it???

and now,, they even could fly more far away to Bangladesh, and explode a mosque for shiite..!!?

Wooow... !!! what kind of a well managed and selectively bombing attacks these?

Guys, neutrally speaking, do you really think that these brainless vagabon dogs, so-called ISIS memebers are so smart to carry on such activities? or there is an invisible ghost managing it behind the scene and using the title of ISIS?

are these ISI really exist in reality as such capable super-power like the global media machines trying to say? or as long as anything bad just to be counted on Islam and to have a negative impact on Muslims around the world is Ok to be broadcasted and must be believed no matter what,

Islam and Muslims are innocent from these misguided vagabond dogs,

All of us, we should confess, such devil-minded terrorists are not belond to the humanity societies by any way, no matter where they come from, and what they claim to be from, terrorist is terrorist,

We all against these destructive deeds and killing innocents under whatesoever reason,

Let us pray and sincerly say it together:

Peace on the world! Peace to all humanity !