‘Islamic State member’ held in Dhaka

 Dhaka

 Detectives claimed to have arrested a member of Islamic State (ISIS) from a house in Baridhara area of Dhaka last night.

 The arrestee Abdullah Al Ghalib is a recruiter of Isis and a militancy trainer, a trusted source inside the detective branch of police, told The Daily Star.

 Acting on a tip-off, a team of DB police launched a raid at Galib’s Baridhara residence last night and picked him up with a passport, around 43 Jihadi books, DB source said.

 Four hard disk drives and two potable disk drives were also recovered from his possession.

 During primary interrogation, the arrestee endorsed that he was an active assistant coordinator of Ansarullah Bangla Team and member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, the source said.

 Detective Branch of police will inform details about the arrest at a press briefing at the media centre of Dhaka Metropolitan Police around 11:00am, said a text massage floated by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police media wing today.

 On May 25, the detectives detained two suspected members of the Isis members from the capital. The detainees Aminul Islam Begh, 40, is a local recruiter of IS, and Sakib bin Kamal, 30, his associate.

 Begh, the information technology chief of a multinational company in Dhaka, already selected 20 activists including Kamal, a teacher of a English medium school, to join IS in Syria and Iraq, DMP sources said.

 A team of police from Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Begh, who was a regional coordinator of JMB, in Uttara while Kamal in Lalmatia in the city last night.