Islamic State recruiter arrested in Bangladesh

A suspected Islamic State recruiter has been arrested here by Bangladeshi police, the third operative belonging to the dreaded terror group to be held in the country within a week.

“The members of our detective branch arrested him last night raiding a house at Baridhara area (in Dhaka) acting on a secret tip off,” an official of the Dhaka metropolitan police said. Abdullah Al Ghalib, who was arrested by police, appeared to be in his early 30s and was believed to be a trained recruiter of the outfit. 

Over 40 so-called Jihadi books, four computer hard disks, two portable disk drives and a passport was also seized from his house during the raid.