DHAKA, Nov. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The government of Bangladesh is going for a combing operation to net the Islamic militants responsible for recurrent bomb attacks across the country.

    Prime Minister Khaleda Zia Tuesday night met with senior ministers of her cabinet here discussing Tuesday's bomb attacks onthe court premises in the southern Chittagong port city and Gazipur, 35 km north of Dhaka, and their developments, local media disclosed Wednesday.

    A joint force comprising the members of police, Rapid Action Battalion, paramilitary the Bangladesh Rifles and Ansar (militia), under the supervision of army, was seriously considered at the meeting.

    Informing the prime minister of the spreading militant activities, especially attacks on the court premises, the government policy makers suggested taking immediate measures to control the situation.

    Besides, the issue of initiating dialogues with all quarters, including the opposition to face the militants, was raised in the meeting. The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party was asked to use its organizational capability to mobilize public support against militancy.

    Twelve people including two lawyers and two police were killed and over 60 others injured Tuesday morning in two suicide bomb attacks by the banned Islamist outfit the Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), on Chittagong and Gazipur court premises.

    In the latest wave of terror strikes on the judiciary, two JMB members blew themselves up -- one near a police check post at the entrance to the Chittagong court building and the other in a crowdof lawyers and their clients at the Gazipur bar association building.

    The JMB has targeted the judiciary as a part of its professed struggle to turn the state under the rule of Islamic law.

    The JMB was accused of the country-wide bomb attacks on Aug. 17 which left three people killed and over 150 others injured. Seventeen people including judges, lawyers and police have been killed since the JMB started terror attacks on Aug. 17.

    The banned Islamist outfit has issued fresh threats to judges and lawyers, government officials and diplomatic missions in the country.

    The JMB, in a letter on Monday, threatened to bomb and kill a judge in the northwestern Dinajpur if he does not implement the rule of Allah instead of man-made laws.

    The police on Tuesday claimed that they had arrested the man who had sent the e-mail to the Western missions in Dhaka, including that of the United States and Britain, on Sunday threatening to blow them up.

    The twin suicide blasts at the courts in Chittagong and Gazipuron Tuesday came as a testimony to Bangladesh's lack of preparedness to fight suicide bombers, said security experts.

    The country does not even have access to basic knowledge and expertise for the fight against suicide bombers when many developed and developing countries are spending millions of dollars on measures to combat such a deadly form of terrorism, they observed.

    "We are not prepared at all to tackle suicide bombers and our lack of preparedness may lead to more deadly incidents anytime, anywhere," The Daily Star Wednesday quoted Shakhawat Hossain, a retired brigadier general of the Bangladesh Army, as saying.

    "Our law enforcers are not trained. We must keep in mind that the terrorists use sophisticated tactics, therefore, the law enforcers should have special training, both at physical and psychological levels," he said. Enditem