Counter-Terrorism officials said that Ansar Al Islam (AAI) is now focused on collecting funds, increase organizational strength, and avoid arrest, is now sending its permanent members abroad, reports Daily Star on September 30. In the last three months, the AAI had sent a member to Saudi Arabia and complete paperwork of four others for their journey to Oman, said counter-terrorism officials. "As part of a new strategy to avoid arrest, the outfit is now sending members abroad, whose identities were already known to law enforcers," Ahamedul Islam, additional deputy commissioner of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, said.