In recent years, Ms. Hasina's government has effectively cracked down on the terrorist group Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, which used Bangladesh as a staging ground for attacks in India.

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He has since fallen out with its leaders, particularly Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded him as head of Egypt's Islamic Jihad group.

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Mr Ag Intalla told AP news agency the IMA was linked to neither al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) nor the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), two groups which control large swathes of northern Mali and are led by an Algerian and a Mauritanian respectively.

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