Canadian student goes from hostage to detainee suspected of involvement in Dhaka attack
July 07, 2016  14:18
The reported leader of ISIL in Bangladesh, a recent University of Windsor chemistry graduate named Tamim Chowdhury, has not personally claimed involvement in the Dhaka restaurant attack in which 20 people, mostly foreigners, were slaughtered when they failed to recite Koranic scripture by memory.

But his involvement is suggested by the claim by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant that the attackers acted on its behalf, the distribution of images from inside the massacre on ISIL social media channels and the clearly global audience of the attack in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter.
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