Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh

Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (alternate spelling: Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh; abbreviated: JMB; ) was a Islamist organisation operating in Bangladesh. It was founded in 1998 in Palampur in Dhaka division by Abdur Rahman Terrorism: A Tragic Tale of Continued Denials, New Age, 27 September 2005 and gained public prominence in 2001 when bombs and documents detailing the activities of the organization were discovered in Parbatipur in Dinajpur district. The organization was officially banned by the government of Bangladesh in February 2005 after attacks on NGOs, but struck back in mid-August when it detonated 500 bombs at 300 locations throughout Bangladesh.

The JMB was believed to have contained at least 100,000 members,Stahl, Adam E, , Institute for Counter-Terrorism-Israel, 30 April 2007; retrieved: 2008-01-11Anwar Ali, , The Daily Star, 19 August 2005; retrieved: 2008-01-11 Six of the top leaders of JMP were captured by the Rapid Action Battalion security force in 2005. On the evening of 29 March 2007, four were executed by hanging for the killing of two judges and for...
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