Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.Five months after Ashiqur Rahman left his home, he lay dying in the hills above Ayn Isa, near Damascus, his body ripped apart by fire from a ZU-23-2 “Sergei” anti-aircraft cannon, which he had charged towards. He’d left a letter for those who followed him. “I was drowning in the same obstacles that you might be going through now”, it reads. “It is only the promise… of that Garden in which rivers flow, that kept me going.”The young engineering student, whose disappearance was first reported in this newspaper last year, is a prism through which the rise of Bangladesh’s new generation of jihadists can be understood. Though the world is transfixed by the debate over whether the Islamic State has arrived in Bangladesh, the name is largely irrelevant to the story.v
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