Britain attack plotter's brother among missing Bangladesh youths listed by RAB

The brother of a man arrested for plotting to blow up plane in Britain features in the RAB's missing list.

Tehzeeb Karim, 33, went missing from the Shahjalal International Airport on May 17, his family members say.

Tehzeeb's brother Rajib Karim, a follower of Anwar al-Awlaki, a militant known to be associated with al Qaeda, is serving a 30-year term in a UK jail for plotting to blow up a plane in 2011.

bdnews24.com interviewed their father Zainul Karim at his residence in Dhaka’s Green Road on Wednesday.

He told bdnews24.com that Tehzeeb returned from Bangkok after an English language course but went missing from the airport on May 17.

Tehzeeb also knows Hindi and Arabic.

Learning that the RAB list featured Tehzeeb's name, his father called for the release of full details about such missing individuals.

He expressed his suspicion that his son could be in the custody of a Bangladeshi law enforcement agency.

Zainul said Tehzeeb had been questioned by officials at the British High Commission in Dhaka when they went there after Rajib’s arrest.

He said Tehzeeb married Seerah Rashid, his classmate in Scholastica school, after completing his A-Levels.

Zainul said his son Tehzeeb had been in Pakistan but did not tell his father.

He had later gone to Yemen, saying he had managed a job as teacher there.

Tehzeeb was detained and spent eight months in Yemen during a political turmoil, Zainul said.

Zainul, who had been involved with Chhatra Union, an organisation of Leftist students, had contested in the 191 national election with a BNP ticket from Sunamganj, but failed to get elected.

He said he had taken part in the Liberation War but never sought a freedom-fighter certificate.

Tehzeeb’s eldest brother, Atif Karim, had died in a ‘mysterious’ accident in London in 2001, said the family.

Shamaila Narmeen, the only daughter of Bangladeshi businessman Salman F Rahman, also died in the same accident.