On 17 August 2005, around 500 bomb explosions occurred at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh. The bombs were exploded within a half hour period starting from 11:30 am. A terrorist organization, Jama'at-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) claimed responsibility for the bombings. The group, led by Shaikh Abdur Rahman and the elusive Siddiqur Rahman (a.k.a. Bangla Bhai), is alleged to be affiliated with Al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist organizations. August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Siddique ul-Islam, known popularly as Bangla Bhai (The Bengali Brother), also known as Aziz ur-Rahman, is a Bangladeshi Islamic radicalist and the military commander of the radical vigilante Islamist organization Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (Awakened Muslim Masses of Bangladesh), known in popular usage as the JMJB. Most active... Osama bin Laden Ayman al-Zawahiri Al-Qaeda (Arabic: , al-Qā‘idah; the foundation or the base) is the name given to an international Islamic fundamentalist campaign comprised of independent and collaborative cells that all profess the same cause of reducing outside influence upon Islamic affairs. ...

The explosion killed 2 people (a child in Savar, near Dhaka, and a Rickshaw-puller in Chapai Nawabganj District). Dhaka (previously Dacca; Bangla: ঢাকা), population 9,000,022 (2001), is the capital of Bangladesh. ... Japanese rickshaws c. ...

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