Tanvir Kaderi, the man who killed himself during a police raid in Azimpur, was trying to be agent of the so call jihadist group and international terrorist group Islamic State (IS) in Bangladesh. The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit source said the Neo JMB" - the newly formed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, are trying to connect them with IS using high technology.
Dabiq, the slick English-language magazine from IS, calls Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif the "Amir of the Khilafah's Soldiers in Bengal." If the reports are right, Al-Hanif is actually Tanvir Kaderi,, according to those who remember him, was hardly the fearless commander that he's made out to be in the magazine.
In the Dabiq interview, al-Hanif declared with pride that the emergence of ISIS militants in Bangladesh has "terrified the kuffar [unbelievers] in the region in general and in particular the atheists and secularists who mock Islam and our beloved Prophet.
Tanvir's wife Abedatul Fatema alias Khadiza, who was wounded during the raid, disclosed this to the investigators of CTTC unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Saturday. The CTTC members recovered some serious secret information from Tanvir laptop which was recovered from a militant den in Azimpur on September 10, about the current activities of Neo JMB" sources said.
Tanvir lived at a militant hideout in Bashundhara with the Gulshan café attack mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury. She also lived at the Bashundhara den along with her children, she told the investigators.
"Although they all lived at the Bashundhara residence on Road 6 in Block E, Khadiza never talked to Tamim or any other male members of the group," sources said. Since Khadiza is undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, they are yet to interrogate her extensively, the officer added.
Tanvir committed suicide during the raid at a militant den in Azimpur on September 10 but Khadiza and two other women were arrested.
The two other women suspects include Afrin alias Priyoti, wife of key militant suspect Nurul Islam Marzan.
Khadiza, who completed honours and master's from mass communication & journalism department at Dhaka University, is so radicalised that she still believes they were on the right path.
Using different names he rented flats at different parts of the city for the militants and the Bashundhara flat was one of those. Gulshan attackers lived at the flat immediately before the attack on July 1, police say.
Bangladeshi-Canadian Tamim accompanied the attackers up to a certain point in Gulshan from the Bashundhara hideout and left after bidding them farewell minutes before the café siege, according to investigators. Tamim along with his two associates were killed during a raid in Narayanganj on August 27.
