Bangladesh minister points to Dhaka link to Mumbai attacks

[LahoreEstate]

Friday, February 20, 2009

News Desk

NEW DELHI: Bangladeshi Minister for Foreign Affairs Hassan Mahmud has hinted that terrorists, who launched the Mumbai attacks, may have used Bangladeshi soil. This is the first time an official from the
“Since terrorist attacks have been happening in the region in the past few months, even in Mumbai, there are cross-border linkages of these terrorists,” Mahmud was quoted as saying by Bangladesh-based newspaper The Independent.

“Not only the Lashkar (Laskhar-e-Taiba) and the HuJI (Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami), but other terror organisations also. They were trained in Afghanistan, they were in Pakistan, then they came here. It is dangerous. They cooperate among themselves, now we have to cooperate among ourselves in the region to combat them,” Mahmud said.

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