CTTC chief: Tahmid Shafi narrator of new IS video

He made the statement while talking to the journalists at the Media Centre in Dhaka on Monday afternoon. He said: “The primary voice analysis suggests that the narrator was Shafi.” Asked about the origin of the video, Monirul said: “The video was not uploaded from Bangladesh. It was uploaded from abroad.” However, he did not mention any specific location from where the video had been uploaded. Earlier, Sweden-based journalist Tasneem Khalil confirmed that the voice of the narrator was of Shafi. Tasneem, who monitors online activities of jihadists, used some software tools to identify the voice. Once a popular Close-Up star, Shafi also sang a motivational song in the video. Shafi, who worked as a teacher at an English medium school before going missing in mid-2015, and two of his Bangladeshi associates spoke on camera in the first IS video released from Raqqa, Syria on July 6 hailing the Holey Artisan Bakery attack that killed 23 people including 17 foreigners on July 1. On September 23, the Islamic State group released a new video featuring the five terrorists who killed 23 people including 17 foreigners at a Gulshan restaurant. In the 15-minute video message – both in Bangla and Arabic, the international terrorist group calls on jihadists to launch armed attacks on the atheists, apostates and crusaders as revenge to the persecution on IS fighters in Iraq and Syria, and elsewhere.