IS recruits nabbed on way to Bangladesh

Police in India’s West Bengal state have arrested four Muslim young men in Kolkata on Friday, when they were on way to Bangladesh to join the militant group, Islamic State (IS). ‘It is apparent from what they confess that some IS recruiters are operating in Bangladesh. These men have been in touch with them and received specific rendezvous spots from them in Bangladesh to meet up,’ an official of the special task force of police said after the arrests. But he was not willing to be named. He said they would pass to Bangladesh agencies all the details they get from these four because that may help them identify the IS cells operating in the country and crack those down. The STF official said that after questioning the four arrestees, two of them engineering students, it was found that at least 11 other Muslim youth were in touch with the IS recruiters in Bangladesh. This makes it clear that the IS, like the Al-Qaeda before it, is turning to global recruitment by upholding its cause not as a regional but as a Pan-Islamic issue, according to bdnews24.com.