Ansarullah Bangla Team
Terrorist organization in Bangladesh
The Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) (Bengali: আনসারুল্লাহ বাংলা টিম), also known as Ansar-al Islam Bangladesh or Ansar Bangla, is a militant Islamist organization in Bangladesh, implicated in many terrorist activities targeting civilians, including attacks and murders of atheist bloggers from 2013 to 2015. Bangladesh Police arrested one member of Ansarullah Bangla Team for connection with Ashulia bank robbery.
History
A new report in 2013 identified Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani as the spiritual leader of a militant group in Bangladesh. He was inspired by Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been killed by the US. He was suspected of building an Islamist terror network in Bangladesh for about minimum 5 years. Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani was the Imam of Hatembagh mosque, Dhanmondi. Many of its supporters online are also supporters of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
On December 17 and 18, 2024, the Special Task Force (STF), a special branch of the Assam Police, arrested 8 members of the Ansarullah Bangla Team from various places in West Bengal, Kerala and Assam.
Militant activity
Murders
The ABT claimed responsibility for some of the prominent murders and attacks of atheist bloggers, including Ahmed Rajib Haider, Asif Mohiuddin, Avijit Roy, Oyasiqur Rahman, Ananta Bijoy Das and AKM Shafiul Islam.
On 21 November 2022, two of the men sentenced to death for the murder of Avijit Roy escaped from a courtroom in Dhaka, assisted by men on motorbikes armed with chemical sprays.
Ashulia bank robbery
The ABT was implicated in a bank robbery of a branch of the Bangladesh Commerce Bank Limited in Ashulia of Savar on April 21, 2015.
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