Dead Bangladesh-American suspect was friend of cafe attacker: police

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Source: Reuters

World | Thu Jul 28, 2016 6:46am EDT

Dead Bangladesh-American suspect was friend of cafe attacker: police

DHAKA | BY RUMA PAUL

One of nine suspected militants killed in a police raid in Bangladesh this week was a Bangladeshi-American who was a friend of one of the gunmen who attacked a cafe on July 1 killing 22 people, police said on Thursday.

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On Tuesday, police raided a building in a Dhaka suburb and killed nine militants, who police said were from the same domestic group as the cafe attackers, and who had been plotting their own similar attack.

Eight of the nine were identified from their fingerprints, which are taken when national identity cards are issued, and one turned out to be a wanted Bangladeshi-American, said Dhaka police spokesman Masudur Rahman.

"Shazad Rouf, 24, was an American passport holder and had been missing for six months," Rahman told Reuters.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-militants-idUSKCN1080OU

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1. British victim of Isis attack in Dhaka 'imprisoned unlawfully' after family's hostage ordeal

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a British man who was among the hostages held by Isis militants during a deadly assault on a café in Bangladesh - only to be arrested by authorities and imprisoned in a secret location for almost a month after the terror attack.

Relatives of Hasnat Karim say he was forced to carry out tasks for the five gunmen after they burst into a café where he was celebrating his daughter’s 13th birthday with his family.
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Mr Karim, who holds dual British-Bangladeshi citizenship, was freed with his wife and two children after being ordered to recite verses from the Quran, but the father disappeared after being taken for questioning.

Legal representatives filed a petition asking the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to investigate the case on Wednesday as Bangladeshi authorities continued to refuse access to lawyers and his family.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/british-victim-of-isis-attack-islamic-state-in-bangladesh-imprisoned-unlawfully-after-familys-a7158991.html

Interview with hsi wife and their lawyer here, half an hour in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m43r8