Bangladesh arrests British ISIL recruiter

Police in Bangladesh have arrested a young British man on suspicion of recruiting militants for terrorist groups such as the ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
Dhaka metropolitan police said in a statement on Monday that British-born Samiun Rahman, of Bangladeshi origin, was arrested at a train station in the capital.
The statement added that Rahman, also known as Ibn Hamdan, told police during a primary interrogation that he was in the country to recruit militants for both the ISIL Takfiri group and the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
Rahman also told police that he had taken part in terrorist activities in Syria between September and December last year while he was a member of a Nusra brigade in the Middle Eastern country.
According to police spokesman Monirul Islam, Rahman planned to send Bangladeshi militants to Syria and sought to set up an al-Qaeda network inside the country as well as in neighboring Myanmar.
Dhaka police also said that Rahman had traveled to a number of other countries to recruit terrorists before arriving in Bangladesh.
According to a CIA source, more than 15,000 foreign fighters from more than 80 countries have gone to Syria to join the militant groups there. Two thousand of the fighters are believed to be Westerners, including at least 500 British nationals.
The US and its allies have been conducting air raids against the ISIL inside Syria since the beginning of this week without formal authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate. A similar bombing campaign had started earlier against ISIL positions in Iraq.
Many observers note that the very countries in the US-led coalition had extended massive backing to various militant groups, including the Takfiri terrorists fighting to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since 2011.
The ISIL Takfiris control large areas of Syria’s east and north. They sent militants into Iraq in June, seizing large parts of the land straddling the border between Syria and Iraq.