Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh

Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh

Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (alternate spelling: Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh; abbreviated: JMB; Bengali: জামাত-উল-মুজাহিদীন বাংলাদেশ) was a Islamist organisation operating in Bangladesh. It was founded in 1998 in Palampur in Dhaka division by Abdur Rahman 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, and have an extensive network of organizations, including connections to legal Islamist organizations. 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 the August 2005 bombings.