On May 21, 2004, a bomb blast at the Hazrat Shahjalal Shrine in Sylhet killed two people and injured theBritish High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury, who was the intended target. The bomb blast was thesecond in five months at the same site and the explosives used were similar to those used in the January 12,2004, blast during the Urs, the annual religious congregation at the shrine. The prime suspect in the blasthas been identified as Moulana M. Habibur Rahman, who runs the Jameya Madania Madrassa at Kazirpar in theSylhet district, and is believed to have close ties with the Taliban. Al Qaeda links to Bangladeshi nationalshave also cropped up in faraway Japan, where, on May 26, 2004, the Police arrested three Bangladeshis alongwith two other foreign nationals suspected of Al Qaeda activities.