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Staff Writer with AFP by Staff Writer with AFP
12/12/17
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Bangladeshi counter terrorism officers on Tuesday questioned the wife of New York subway bomber Akayed Ullah and said he had visited the family in Dhaka in September.

Police said Mr. Ullah, an immigrant from Bangladesh who set off a crude bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York subway passage on Monday, had visited Dhaka after the couple’s baby son was born.

“We are trying to know how he was radicalised and whether he had any associate,” senior counter terrorism officer Saiful Islam told AFP.

He said police had raided the family home in Dhaka and questioned Mr. Ullah’s 25-year-old wife, Jannatul Ferdous Piya and her father, but that neither was under any suspicion.

Mr. Ullah reportedly told U.S. police investigators he wanted to avenge U.S. airstrikes on the Islamic State group and was also inspired by Christmas terror plots in Europe.

Bangladesh police are investigating whether he was radicalised in his Muslim-majority homeland, where foreigners have been among those targeted in deadly assaults claimed by the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda.

Police in Bangladesh say he has never appeared on a watchlist there.

Mofazzal Hossain, caretaker of the family apartment in Hazaribagh in the old part of Dhaka, described him as “pious and a gentleman.”

“He used to pray in the local mosque five times a day. He would urge us to pray and do good work,” Mr. Hossain told AFP.

“He visited Bangladesh in September after his son was born,” he said, adding Mr. Ullah married in January 2016, but did not take his wife to the U.S.

U.S. authorities say Mr. Ullah migrated seven years ago as the member of a family already living there under what is known as “chain immigration.”

His family was originally from Sandwip, an island off Bangladesh’s south coast, but police believe his father moved to Dhaka before Mr. Ullah was born.

“We are questioning one of his relatives for more information,” local police chief Noor-e-Alam Mina told AFP.

The impoverished riverine nation of 160 million has been waging a war against homegrown extremism in the wake of numerous attacks by radical groups in recent years.

In July last year militants stormed a Dhaka cafe and massacred 22 hostages, including 18 foreigners, in an assault claimed by ISIS.

Security forces have shot dead more than 70 alleged militants in a fierce crackdown since the cafe carnage.

Bangladesh last month arrested an alleged militant from Ansarullah Bangla Team, a homegrown extremist group with links to al-Qaeda, over the 2015 murder of a prominent Bangladesh-origin American blogger in Dhaka.

The secular government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to root out extremism but says international radical groups do not operate inside Bangladesh.

The Bangladesh embassy in Washington D.C. condemned the New York bomb attack and restated Bangladesh’s “zero tolerance” approach to extremism.

“A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his or her ethnicity or religion, and must be brought to justice,” the embassy said in a statement.

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