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Bangladesh arrests Briton for suspected Islamic State recruitment

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29-09-2014 | 05:25

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A 24-year-old British citizen has been arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of recruiting people to fight alongside Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, police said on Monday.

Samiun Rahman, a resident of London, arrived in Bangladesh in February to recruit for both IS and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division (DCID) said.

"He has plans to recruit and send a team from Bangladesh to fight in Syria," Monirul told a news conference in Dhaka, the South Asian country's capital.

Police said Rahman had confessed to trying to recruit militants, although it was not yet clear if he had been successful. They added that he was also planning to establish a militant network in Bangladesh and neighbouring Myanmar.

IS has seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in recent weeks and now faces U.S.-led air strikes.

Rahman's arrest in Dhaka comes amid growing concerns that IS is trying to pull in new fighters from South and Southeast Asia to help in its bid for an Islamic caliphate.

IS propaganda material has appeared recently in some parts of Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, according to residents. At least one Pakistan Taliban splinter group declared its support for IS, and the group's flags and graffiti supporting it have also been spotted in Indian-held Kashmir.

In Southeast Asia, over 100 people from Indonesia, Malaysia and the southern Philippines are believed by security officials and analysts to have joined Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

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