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ISA detentions: Ringleader was a draftsman, became radicalised online in 2013

Rahman Mizanur, the Bangladeshi national who first made his way here around nine years ago and who is said to be the ringleader of a group here plotting to carry out terror attacks in their homeland, had become radicalised around 2013, when he read radical material online.

Rahman Mizanur. Photo: Ministry of Home Affairs

Rahman Mizanur. Photo: Ministry of Home Affairs

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Rahman Mizanur, the Bangladeshi national who first made his way here around nine years ago and who is said to be the ringleader of a group here plotting to carry out terror attacks in their homeland, had become radicalised around 2013, when he read radical material online.

The 31-year-old, who was working as a draftsman at a local construction firm when he was arrested, had been working on-and-off in Singapore since 2007, said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

“At the time that Rahman last came to Singapore in December last year, the authorities had no information to suggest that he had radicalised views,” said the MHA.

Rahman had become more radicalised after a Bangladeshi shared Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) propaganda material with him in Bangladesh last year, they said.

Having set up Islamic State in Bangladesh, his aim was to overthrow the Bangladeshi government and create an Islamic state under ISIS’ self-declared caliphate.

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