10-11-2004, 05:43 AM
<b>Sunday 10/10/2004
Bangladesh: A cradle for terrorism?</b> (With feeds from Prothom Alo)
To what extent the Jamaat is involved with Hujai has been revealed in an investigative report prepared by Bangladeshi newspaper âProthom Aloâ. The report was published in five instalments. The newspaper quotes the confession of an extremist Salim Ullahar as saying that the Jamaat was totally behind the HUJAI since its inception in 1998 as if it was its own brainchild. .A large number of HUJAI consists of activists who have returned to Bangladesh after the fall of the Taliban
administration in Afghanistan. They camp in the inaccessible hilly areas of Cox Bazar and Bandarban and in the no-man land along the Bangladesh-Mynmar border. This organisation provides military training to Islamic militants belonging to the Rohingiya Muslims of Arakan mountains in Myanmar and to members of some Indian outfits. The returnees from Afghanistan were sent to that country by HUJAI for training and for fighting along Al-Qaeda and Taliban against the United States-led war against global terrorism. To execute its domestic agenda (i.e. Islamisation of Bangladesh) HUJAI has been using madrasas for providing indoctrination and arms training. According to the information gathered by âProthom Aloâ, new madrasas have been mushrooming in the inaccessible hilly areas with funds pouring in from NGOs in Middle East countries. Chittagong has become the center from where the Islamic movement for the whole country is conducted. Madrasas in Cox Bazar and Bandarban areas serve as recruiting agents for various jehadi groups
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/bang...orism-with.html
Global Jihad: Defensive Jihad - Retribution and Deterrence
In state of war, the right to attack the military exists anyway, even when they are not actively engaging in combat. Hence, targeting the army would not constitute retaliation. The enemy army is targeted for complete annihilation or subjugation and no principle of proportionality is applied here. In defensive Jihad the same ruling applies however, if our non-combatants are targeted, we reserve the right to target theirs in a similar manner, provided it is not excessive like the bombing of Dresden. Therefore, if 9/11 was undertaken by those brave 19 Mujahideen they are clearly justified as the US has been bombing and killing our citizens en masse since 1991, some may argue since 1948 by its constant military and economic support to the illegitimate state of Israel (occupied Palestine)
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/glob...sive-jihad.html
Pakistan: The "Global" Idiot Box
The advent of Pakistani television in America is in many ways a disaster for those from our country who have made the United States their home. Its deleterious effects are already evident and with time they will only multiply. It is now possible and hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis are proof of that to live in America in a physical sense, but for all other purposes remain in Pakistan. After 9/11, most Pakistanis have gone into a cocoon. The soap operas that flow from the three Pakistani channels marriage being the one and only theme provide them with the escape that they think they need. The fact that it makes them non-functional in an emotional and psychological sense in this society, matters very little. They donât see this slide into the never-never land of a never-never Pakistan as anything but normal. Only rarely, if at all, have I seen a Pakistani at a museum, an art gallery or a theatre. Also uncommon, in fact, most uncommon, is the sight of a Pakistani
family eating at a non-Pakistani restaurant. The unreality of the lives that our people live here is hard to believe but that is the way it is.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/paki...-idiot-box.html
Pakistan: Taliban, Al-Qaeda, US and South Asia
One must, however, admit that Pakistan's support of Al-Qaeda and Taliban were guided by several factors. Firstly, ever since its inception Pakistan has consistently aligned itself with the US and the West through SEATO, CENTO and other military alliances. This was caused by Pakistan's obsessive fear of Indian military threat that was espousing non-aligned movement to the utter disapproval of cold war warriors like John Foster Dulles and many others. Though Jack Kennedy tried to mend fences with India Nixon-Kissinger tilt in favour of Pakistan during the Bangladesh war of liberation demonstrated fully that Pakistan's absolute dedication to the American cold war cause had paid off. It, therefore, seemed eminently logical to President Ziaul Huq to support the Taliban putsch to unseat the Soviet backed regimes and compliment the CIA proxy war in Afghanistan.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/paki...south.htm\
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Assessment: Demography phobia - A Third "Islamic Republic" in the Sub Continent? - Part 2
ââThe long-cherished design of Greater East Pakistan/Bangladesh, making inroads into the strategic land-link of Assam with the rest of the country,ââ he warned, ââcan lead to severing the entire land mass of the North-East...from the rest of the country. This will have disastrous strategic and economic consequences.ââ After tracing in detail the way the demographic balance has been overturned in district after district adjacent to Bangladesh, General Sinha concluded: ââThis silent and invidious demographic invasion of Assam may result in the loss of geostrategically vital districts of Lower Assam. The influx of these illegal migrants is turning these
districts into a Muslim-majority region. It will then only be a matter of time when a demand for their merger with Bangladesh may be made. The rapid growth of Islamic fundamentalism may provide the driving force for this demand. In this context, it is pertinent that Bangladesh has long discarded secularism and has chosen to become an Islamic State. Loss of Lower Assam will severe the entire land mass of the North-East from the rest of India....ââ
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/asse...a-third_10.html
India: North East - Asia's longest running insurgency
Each of the seven states in the region today has some insurgency or the other keeping the state busy, often dominating and setting the agenda in the respective
geographical area. At last count there are at least 15 major groups in the region that have been banned by the Centre. If you take the smaller groups, the number
is closer to 40. A majority of these outfits were formed in the 1980s or early 1990s but each of them is an off-shoot of earlier such attempts to rebel against the Indian nation state. Except the Naga insurgency, most of the outfits in the north-east have been born out of neglect heaped upon by New Delhi on these
distant states since Independence.
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Bangladesh: Women soccer tourney on despite Mullah Oppositions
Bangladesh's first women's soccer tournament has faced protests from Islamic groups since it began Monday in Dhaka. But organizers promised to continue the games, which have attracted moderate crowds at a new downtown stadium in the capital."We had two games today," Kamrun Nahar, secretary the Bangladesh Football Federation's women's soccer committee, told The Associated Press. Yesterday, dozens of Islamic protesters rallied outside the National Sports Council, a state authority that oversees sports, asking the government to suspend the event. Riot police stood watch to prevent the protesters from raiding the council building or marching toward the venue.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/bang...tourney-on.html
Bangladesh: Post Mortem - 3 years on - what ails the BNP
Some top-ranking leaders of BNP admitted that discords between ministers and ministry high officials have made the administration sluggish. Top bureaucrats were
transferred from one ministry to another several times in the wake of such conflicts, but to no avail. A senior minister on condition of anonymity said ministers are not usually allowed to speak on any issue beyond the agenda at the cabinet meetings. That is why they could not raise vital issues related to public concern, he added.
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Bangladesh: 8/21 Report - Donât add fuel to the fire
The cross-border dimension of mercenary and political crimes afflicting Bangladesh has of late been detected in greater detail by our government agencies. A list of 353 dangerous criminals, freely residing in and conducting their criminal activities from India, were handed over by Bangladesh to the Indian side at the recently concluded BDR-BSF conference held at the Director-General level in India. Separate lists of tribal separatists of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and locations of their thirty camps in the Tripura state of India, as well as names of trainers and locations of some nine insurgency training and motivation camps in the state of West Bengal in India, were also provided.
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Saturday 09/10/2004
Diaspora: Being anti-Bush without being anti-American
When Masud was 7, his parents moved from Bangladesh to America to provide a better life for him and his older sister. His mother, who is deeply religious, taught him to not be ashamed of his faith. She has also taught him not to force his beliefs or ideas on others. Masud thinks a lot of terrorism arises from anti-American attitudes. "I absolutely cannot understand why people move to the United States and then criticize the United States," he said. Although he doesn't agree with President George W. Bush's foreign policies, he isn't anti-American.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/dias...being.htm\
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Global Jihad: War Sans Reason
Back to Bush's comments on the South Lawn about why Saddam's knowledge of WMD was a threat worth going to war for: "And he could have passed that knowledge on to our terrorist enemies." True, he could have. So could have the leaders of North Korea, Iran, Libya, Pakistan, and a few other countries all much closer to building a bomb than Iraq ever was, some of them already nuclear powers. The question is: Did Saddam Hussein have relations with our terrorist enemies or an inclination or motive to give them nuclear secrets? All evidence indicates he did not. The newly leaked CIA report which had been requested by Cheney concluded that Saddam enjoyed no such relations, not even with Abu Musab Zarqawi, the al-Qaida lieutenant who had a training camp before the war in the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Northern Iraq
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/glob...ans-reason.html
India: Insurgency and Democracy
The Mughals had little time for an area that a Muslim cleric described as comprising "another world, another people, and other customs". The British were
"inclined, on the whole, to leave the tribesmen alone", said Verrier Elwin, the celebrated anthropologist, "partly because the task of administration was difficult and unrewarding". After India's independence, the government reached out to the region "in a spirit of comradeship", as India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, "and not like someone aloof" who regarded the people and their customs as "museum pieces". But still the relationship has not been free of tension.At this juncture, however, two events led to fresh complications. One was the effect of internal politics in Bangladesh, which made the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) adopt an openly anti-Indian posture to counter its rival, the Awami League, which had close relations with India from the time of Dhaka's liberation with India's help in 1971. As a result, BNP's assumption of power in Bangladesh has been followed by the renewal of the old East Pakistani policy of providing succour to the insurgent groups.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/indi...-democracy.html
Nepal: Six Indian Queries to Premier Deuba
What has gone unnoticed is the pledge given by the PRC also (Peopleâs Republic of China) of unspecified military assistance during the meeting of Nepalâs Chief of Army Staff with his Chinese counterpart Gen.Cao Gangchuan in June 2004. While the Chinese offer is more symbolic to counter Indiaâs preponderant influence, the Indian assistance by way of supply of weapons, training and the arrest of Maoists ( two Politburo members and many central committee members are in their custody with many more arrests taking place in Bihar), must have upset the Maoists and India therefore figures prominently in the six queries (not China)
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/nepa...to-premier.html
Assessment: Demography phobia - A Third "Islamic Republic" in the Sub Continent? Part-1
There is a distinct danger of another Muslim country, speaking predominantly Bengali, emerging in the eastern part of India in the future, at a time when India might find itself weakened politically and militarily. And second that the danger is as grave even if that third Islamic State does not get carved out as a full-fledged country. You may quarrel over the answer, but you can be certain of one thing: secularists will dump the figures themselves! India: the State of Denial.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/asse...obia-third.html
Bangladesh: RAB - No space in Prison - shoot 'em dead!
The arbitrarily assigned first front that the government has to compete with is the image of the RAB that has emerged as a result of the deaths of suspects in its custody. There hasn't been a lot of hue and cry emanating from the public about the operations of the RAB. But the newspapers and human rights organizations have taken quite an exception to the frequent operations of the battalion which almost invariably end in the death of one or many accused, inevitably dying in 'cross-fire'. This 'unavoidable' death by crossfire will convince the gullible, the village idiot or his like. But if one tries to unearth the implication of 'cross-fire', one would seriously doubt the argument of RAB that it uses in its own defence.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/bang...-in-prison.html
Analysis: NorthEast situation and the dilemma for Congress
At the heart of the recent mess in eastern India is a problem of pusillanimity and denial. For over 18 months, Indian intelligence agencies have been warning of a dual threat to national security in the region. The first is an extension of the thousand cuts assault on India initiated by Pakistan in the Eighties, and which shows no sign of waning, despite the Islamabad declaration of January and Singhâs historic meeting with the president, Pervez Musharraf, in New York last month. The second is the Maoist insurgency whose epicentre is in Nepal, but whose tentacles extend into Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.The importance of Bangladesh as a springboard for insurgent groups operating in Assam and the North-eastern states has now been openly and categorically acknowledged. It is not merely that terrorist groups like the United Liberation Front of Asom, United National Liberation Front, National Democratic Front of Bodoland and others use Bangladesh as a sanctuary. But Indian intelligence also believes that following the election of the Khaleda Zia government in July 2001, these groups became dependant on Dhaka for funds, hardware, training and business opportunities such as facilitating arms supplies to other extremist groups in India and Nepal.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/anal...uation-and.html
Friday: 08/10/2004
Bangladesh: Massive Troops mobilzation on Indian sideof border
On whether India will be giving any strong message to Bangladesh, which has been denying presence of training camps for militants, Patil said "we donât think by using strong words" it could be solved rather there were diplomatic methods which could be used "very firmly and very correctly" without worsening the relationship to convey Indiaâs concern.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/bang...obilzation.html
Assam: The East Is Red
The rebels appear to have simply relocated their camps." Gogoi is pushing New Delhi to focus on Bangladesh and Myanmar, where he insists ULFA and NDFB have bases and safe houses. "As we see now, the root of the problem lies in these two countries. Unless the rebels are uprooted from there, violent attacks are bound to go on," he says. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too has now voiced his concern over 'some insurgent groups' taking 'shelter' in Bangladesh. Dhaka has been consistently denying charges of its territory being used by rebels from northeast India. This despite New Delhi furnishing detailed lists of rebel camps inside Bangladesh to authorities there at regular intervals. The last such list of 195 handed over to visiting Bangladesh Rifles chief Maj Gen Jehangir Alam Choudhuri by his BSF counterpart Ajai Raj Sharma in New Delhi last month in fact invited a derisive rejection from Dhaka. On checking the provided coordinates, they said one training camp on the list would have to be within a BDR cantonment and another at sea
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/as...s-red.html
Thursday: 07/10/2004
Global Jihad: Chechnya - an Indian RAW Assessment
There is no room for liberalism in the Wahhabi version of Islam. Although a large number of Muslims across the world are opposed to this violent interpretation of Islam, the financial muscle of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have turned Wahhabism into the main current of Islam today. President Putin has declared that the massacre of the children in Beslan is a war against Russia. In this case, Russia should try to cut the roots of the Chechen terrorists and take the war to its financial sources: the western oil companies and Saudi Arabia-UAE-Pakistan. Russia should nationalise the oil and natural gas companies and ask Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to do the same. That will drive out the Western oil companies. Russia still is a formidable nuclear power. If it would attack Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Pakistan, there is nothing the USA can do without risking its own annihilation. Russia must understand that withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 has not made Russia safer, as Gorbachov had wished. Instead, it has encouraged the possibility of eventual destruction of Russia by the terrorists
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/glob...indian-raw.html
Assam: The American Hubris
What has come as an intriguing affair is the keenness of the Assam government to accept the American offer.The offer is coming in the first place from a country( the lone superpower) which has failed to curb terrorism in the lands it has invaded or occupied with the express aim of fighting terrorism. In spite of presence of super sleuths of FBI and CIA in Iraq, the Bush administration has not succeeded in smashing the terrorist cells there. The US ambassador to India, Mr David C Mulford claimed in his offer to the Assam Chief Minister, Mr Tarun Gogoi that America possessed 'considerable experience in investigative techniques', while the fact remains that the key information about the activities and whereabouts of the Taliban terrorists and their leader Osama bin Laden was supplied by Indian intelligence sleuths
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/assa...can-hubris.html
India: PM Says Bangladesh is Shelter for Insurgents
"It is not true to say that we do not have credible policy for northeast. We had anticipated that terrorists will do something on October 2 and 3. But terrorists have the advantage." "I have made personal representation to the highest leadership of Bangladesh," Singh told a news conference in Mumbai when his attention was drawn to some insurgent groups operating from the neighbouring country. Singh refused to comment on the relationship with neighbouring nations, but said India will expect that a territory of a friendly nation should not (not) be used by terrorists to destablise the country.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/indi...is-shelter.html
India: Maoist Insurgency - Bad Medicine for a Red Epidemic
While the Governments of other Naxalite affected States are now working to 'establish conditions conducive to talks', Naxalite groups in these States, including PWG State units, have escalated violence in many of these areas, and have rejected offers of talks as 'deceptive and meaningless'. Security and Intelligence organizations - as well as observers who have long watched the trajectory of the Naxalite movement - believe that the 'peace process' in Andhra Pradesh - and in any other State where it may be initiated in the proximate future - would inevitably collapse within six-odd months, after which a reinvigorated PWG can be expected to resume violent activities.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/indi...d-medicine.html
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Bangladesh: A cradle for terrorism?</b> (With feeds from Prothom Alo)
To what extent the Jamaat is involved with Hujai has been revealed in an investigative report prepared by Bangladeshi newspaper âProthom Aloâ. The report was published in five instalments. The newspaper quotes the confession of an extremist Salim Ullahar as saying that the Jamaat was totally behind the HUJAI since its inception in 1998 as if it was its own brainchild. .A large number of HUJAI consists of activists who have returned to Bangladesh after the fall of the Taliban
administration in Afghanistan. They camp in the inaccessible hilly areas of Cox Bazar and Bandarban and in the no-man land along the Bangladesh-Mynmar border. This organisation provides military training to Islamic militants belonging to the Rohingiya Muslims of Arakan mountains in Myanmar and to members of some Indian outfits. The returnees from Afghanistan were sent to that country by HUJAI for training and for fighting along Al-Qaeda and Taliban against the United States-led war against global terrorism. To execute its domestic agenda (i.e. Islamisation of Bangladesh) HUJAI has been using madrasas for providing indoctrination and arms training. According to the information gathered by âProthom Aloâ, new madrasas have been mushrooming in the inaccessible hilly areas with funds pouring in from NGOs in Middle East countries. Chittagong has become the center from where the Islamic movement for the whole country is conducted. Madrasas in Cox Bazar and Bandarban areas serve as recruiting agents for various jehadi groups
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/bang...orism-with.html
Global Jihad: Defensive Jihad - Retribution and Deterrence
In state of war, the right to attack the military exists anyway, even when they are not actively engaging in combat. Hence, targeting the army would not constitute retaliation. The enemy army is targeted for complete annihilation or subjugation and no principle of proportionality is applied here. In defensive Jihad the same ruling applies however, if our non-combatants are targeted, we reserve the right to target theirs in a similar manner, provided it is not excessive like the bombing of Dresden. Therefore, if 9/11 was undertaken by those brave 19 Mujahideen they are clearly justified as the US has been bombing and killing our citizens en masse since 1991, some may argue since 1948 by its constant military and economic support to the illegitimate state of Israel (occupied Palestine)
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/glob...sive-jihad.html
Pakistan: The "Global" Idiot Box
The advent of Pakistani television in America is in many ways a disaster for those from our country who have made the United States their home. Its deleterious effects are already evident and with time they will only multiply. It is now possible and hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis are proof of that to live in America in a physical sense, but for all other purposes remain in Pakistan. After 9/11, most Pakistanis have gone into a cocoon. The soap operas that flow from the three Pakistani channels marriage being the one and only theme provide them with the escape that they think they need. The fact that it makes them non-functional in an emotional and psychological sense in this society, matters very little. They donât see this slide into the never-never land of a never-never Pakistan as anything but normal. Only rarely, if at all, have I seen a Pakistani at a museum, an art gallery or a theatre. Also uncommon, in fact, most uncommon, is the sight of a Pakistani
family eating at a non-Pakistani restaurant. The unreality of the lives that our people live here is hard to believe but that is the way it is.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/paki...-idiot-box.html
Pakistan: Taliban, Al-Qaeda, US and South Asia
One must, however, admit that Pakistan's support of Al-Qaeda and Taliban were guided by several factors. Firstly, ever since its inception Pakistan has consistently aligned itself with the US and the West through SEATO, CENTO and other military alliances. This was caused by Pakistan's obsessive fear of Indian military threat that was espousing non-aligned movement to the utter disapproval of cold war warriors like John Foster Dulles and many others. Though Jack Kennedy tried to mend fences with India Nixon-Kissinger tilt in favour of Pakistan during the Bangladesh war of liberation demonstrated fully that Pakistan's absolute dedication to the American cold war cause had paid off. It, therefore, seemed eminently logical to President Ziaul Huq to support the Taliban putsch to unseat the Soviet backed regimes and compliment the CIA proxy war in Afghanistan.
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Assessment: Demography phobia - A Third "Islamic Republic" in the Sub Continent? - Part 2
ââThe long-cherished design of Greater East Pakistan/Bangladesh, making inroads into the strategic land-link of Assam with the rest of the country,ââ he warned, ââcan lead to severing the entire land mass of the North-East...from the rest of the country. This will have disastrous strategic and economic consequences.ââ After tracing in detail the way the demographic balance has been overturned in district after district adjacent to Bangladesh, General Sinha concluded: ââThis silent and invidious demographic invasion of Assam may result in the loss of geostrategically vital districts of Lower Assam. The influx of these illegal migrants is turning these
districts into a Muslim-majority region. It will then only be a matter of time when a demand for their merger with Bangladesh may be made. The rapid growth of Islamic fundamentalism may provide the driving force for this demand. In this context, it is pertinent that Bangladesh has long discarded secularism and has chosen to become an Islamic State. Loss of Lower Assam will severe the entire land mass of the North-East from the rest of India....ââ
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/asse...a-third_10.html
India: North East - Asia's longest running insurgency
Each of the seven states in the region today has some insurgency or the other keeping the state busy, often dominating and setting the agenda in the respective
geographical area. At last count there are at least 15 major groups in the region that have been banned by the Centre. If you take the smaller groups, the number
is closer to 40. A majority of these outfits were formed in the 1980s or early 1990s but each of them is an off-shoot of earlier such attempts to rebel against the Indian nation state. Except the Naga insurgency, most of the outfits in the north-east have been born out of neglect heaped upon by New Delhi on these
distant states since Independence.
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Bangladesh: Women soccer tourney on despite Mullah Oppositions
Bangladesh's first women's soccer tournament has faced protests from Islamic groups since it began Monday in Dhaka. But organizers promised to continue the games, which have attracted moderate crowds at a new downtown stadium in the capital."We had two games today," Kamrun Nahar, secretary the Bangladesh Football Federation's women's soccer committee, told The Associated Press. Yesterday, dozens of Islamic protesters rallied outside the National Sports Council, a state authority that oversees sports, asking the government to suspend the event. Riot police stood watch to prevent the protesters from raiding the council building or marching toward the venue.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/bang...tourney-on.html
Bangladesh: Post Mortem - 3 years on - what ails the BNP
Some top-ranking leaders of BNP admitted that discords between ministers and ministry high officials have made the administration sluggish. Top bureaucrats were
transferred from one ministry to another several times in the wake of such conflicts, but to no avail. A senior minister on condition of anonymity said ministers are not usually allowed to speak on any issue beyond the agenda at the cabinet meetings. That is why they could not raise vital issues related to public concern, he added.
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Bangladesh: 8/21 Report - Donât add fuel to the fire
The cross-border dimension of mercenary and political crimes afflicting Bangladesh has of late been detected in greater detail by our government agencies. A list of 353 dangerous criminals, freely residing in and conducting their criminal activities from India, were handed over by Bangladesh to the Indian side at the recently concluded BDR-BSF conference held at the Director-General level in India. Separate lists of tribal separatists of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and locations of their thirty camps in the Tripura state of India, as well as names of trainers and locations of some nine insurgency training and motivation camps in the state of West Bengal in India, were also provided.
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Saturday 09/10/2004
Diaspora: Being anti-Bush without being anti-American
When Masud was 7, his parents moved from Bangladesh to America to provide a better life for him and his older sister. His mother, who is deeply religious, taught him to not be ashamed of his faith. She has also taught him not to force his beliefs or ideas on others. Masud thinks a lot of terrorism arises from anti-American attitudes. "I absolutely cannot understand why people move to the United States and then criticize the United States," he said. Although he doesn't agree with President George W. Bush's foreign policies, he isn't anti-American.
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Global Jihad: War Sans Reason
Back to Bush's comments on the South Lawn about why Saddam's knowledge of WMD was a threat worth going to war for: "And he could have passed that knowledge on to our terrorist enemies." True, he could have. So could have the leaders of North Korea, Iran, Libya, Pakistan, and a few other countries all much closer to building a bomb than Iraq ever was, some of them already nuclear powers. The question is: Did Saddam Hussein have relations with our terrorist enemies or an inclination or motive to give them nuclear secrets? All evidence indicates he did not. The newly leaked CIA report which had been requested by Cheney concluded that Saddam enjoyed no such relations, not even with Abu Musab Zarqawi, the al-Qaida lieutenant who had a training camp before the war in the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Northern Iraq
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/glob...ans-reason.html
India: Insurgency and Democracy
The Mughals had little time for an area that a Muslim cleric described as comprising "another world, another people, and other customs". The British were
"inclined, on the whole, to leave the tribesmen alone", said Verrier Elwin, the celebrated anthropologist, "partly because the task of administration was difficult and unrewarding". After India's independence, the government reached out to the region "in a spirit of comradeship", as India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, "and not like someone aloof" who regarded the people and their customs as "museum pieces". But still the relationship has not been free of tension.At this juncture, however, two events led to fresh complications. One was the effect of internal politics in Bangladesh, which made the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) adopt an openly anti-Indian posture to counter its rival, the Awami League, which had close relations with India from the time of Dhaka's liberation with India's help in 1971. As a result, BNP's assumption of power in Bangladesh has been followed by the renewal of the old East Pakistani policy of providing succour to the insurgent groups.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/indi...-democracy.html
Nepal: Six Indian Queries to Premier Deuba
What has gone unnoticed is the pledge given by the PRC also (Peopleâs Republic of China) of unspecified military assistance during the meeting of Nepalâs Chief of Army Staff with his Chinese counterpart Gen.Cao Gangchuan in June 2004. While the Chinese offer is more symbolic to counter Indiaâs preponderant influence, the Indian assistance by way of supply of weapons, training and the arrest of Maoists ( two Politburo members and many central committee members are in their custody with many more arrests taking place in Bihar), must have upset the Maoists and India therefore figures prominently in the six queries (not China)
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/nepa...to-premier.html
Assessment: Demography phobia - A Third "Islamic Republic" in the Sub Continent? Part-1
There is a distinct danger of another Muslim country, speaking predominantly Bengali, emerging in the eastern part of India in the future, at a time when India might find itself weakened politically and militarily. And second that the danger is as grave even if that third Islamic State does not get carved out as a full-fledged country. You may quarrel over the answer, but you can be certain of one thing: secularists will dump the figures themselves! India: the State of Denial.
http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/asse...obia-third.html
Bangladesh: RAB - No space in Prison - shoot 'em dead!
The arbitrarily assigned first front that the government has to compete with is the image of the RAB that has emerged as a result of the deaths of suspects in its custody. There hasn't been a lot of hue and cry emanating from the public about the operations of the RAB. But the newspapers and human rights organizations have taken quite an exception to the frequent operations of the battalion which almost invariably end in the death of one or many accused, inevitably dying in 'cross-fire'. This 'unavoidable' death by crossfire will convince the gullible, the village idiot or his like. But if one tries to unearth the implication of 'cross-fire', one would seriously doubt the argument of RAB that it uses in its own defence.
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Analysis: NorthEast situation and the dilemma for Congress
At the heart of the recent mess in eastern India is a problem of pusillanimity and denial. For over 18 months, Indian intelligence agencies have been warning of a dual threat to national security in the region. The first is an extension of the thousand cuts assault on India initiated by Pakistan in the Eighties, and which shows no sign of waning, despite the Islamabad declaration of January and Singhâs historic meeting with the president, Pervez Musharraf, in New York last month. The second is the Maoist insurgency whose epicentre is in Nepal, but whose tentacles extend into Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.The importance of Bangladesh as a springboard for insurgent groups operating in Assam and the North-eastern states has now been openly and categorically acknowledged. It is not merely that terrorist groups like the United Liberation Front of Asom, United National Liberation Front, National Democratic Front of Bodoland and others use Bangladesh as a sanctuary. But Indian intelligence also believes that following the election of the Khaleda Zia government in July 2001, these groups became dependant on Dhaka for funds, hardware, training and business opportunities such as facilitating arms supplies to other extremist groups in India and Nepal.
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Friday: 08/10/2004
Bangladesh: Massive Troops mobilzation on Indian sideof border
On whether India will be giving any strong message to Bangladesh, which has been denying presence of training camps for militants, Patil said "we donât think by using strong words" it could be solved rather there were diplomatic methods which could be used "very firmly and very correctly" without worsening the relationship to convey Indiaâs concern.
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Assam: The East Is Red
The rebels appear to have simply relocated their camps." Gogoi is pushing New Delhi to focus on Bangladesh and Myanmar, where he insists ULFA and NDFB have bases and safe houses. "As we see now, the root of the problem lies in these two countries. Unless the rebels are uprooted from there, violent attacks are bound to go on," he says. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too has now voiced his concern over 'some insurgent groups' taking 'shelter' in Bangladesh. Dhaka has been consistently denying charges of its territory being used by rebels from northeast India. This despite New Delhi furnishing detailed lists of rebel camps inside Bangladesh to authorities there at regular intervals. The last such list of 195 handed over to visiting Bangladesh Rifles chief Maj Gen Jehangir Alam Choudhuri by his BSF counterpart Ajai Raj Sharma in New Delhi last month in fact invited a derisive rejection from Dhaka. On checking the provided coordinates, they said one training camp on the list would have to be within a BDR cantonment and another at sea
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Thursday: 07/10/2004
Global Jihad: Chechnya - an Indian RAW Assessment
There is no room for liberalism in the Wahhabi version of Islam. Although a large number of Muslims across the world are opposed to this violent interpretation of Islam, the financial muscle of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have turned Wahhabism into the main current of Islam today. President Putin has declared that the massacre of the children in Beslan is a war against Russia. In this case, Russia should try to cut the roots of the Chechen terrorists and take the war to its financial sources: the western oil companies and Saudi Arabia-UAE-Pakistan. Russia should nationalise the oil and natural gas companies and ask Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to do the same. That will drive out the Western oil companies. Russia still is a formidable nuclear power. If it would attack Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Pakistan, there is nothing the USA can do without risking its own annihilation. Russia must understand that withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 has not made Russia safer, as Gorbachov had wished. Instead, it has encouraged the possibility of eventual destruction of Russia by the terrorists
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Assam: The American Hubris
What has come as an intriguing affair is the keenness of the Assam government to accept the American offer.The offer is coming in the first place from a country( the lone superpower) which has failed to curb terrorism in the lands it has invaded or occupied with the express aim of fighting terrorism. In spite of presence of super sleuths of FBI and CIA in Iraq, the Bush administration has not succeeded in smashing the terrorist cells there. The US ambassador to India, Mr David C Mulford claimed in his offer to the Assam Chief Minister, Mr Tarun Gogoi that America possessed 'considerable experience in investigative techniques', while the fact remains that the key information about the activities and whereabouts of the Taliban terrorists and their leader Osama bin Laden was supplied by Indian intelligence sleuths
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India: PM Says Bangladesh is Shelter for Insurgents
"It is not true to say that we do not have credible policy for northeast. We had anticipated that terrorists will do something on October 2 and 3. But terrorists have the advantage." "I have made personal representation to the highest leadership of Bangladesh," Singh told a news conference in Mumbai when his attention was drawn to some insurgent groups operating from the neighbouring country. Singh refused to comment on the relationship with neighbouring nations, but said India will expect that a territory of a friendly nation should not (not) be used by terrorists to destablise the country.
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India: Maoist Insurgency - Bad Medicine for a Red Epidemic
While the Governments of other Naxalite affected States are now working to 'establish conditions conducive to talks', Naxalite groups in these States, including PWG State units, have escalated violence in many of these areas, and have rejected offers of talks as 'deceptive and meaningless'. Security and Intelligence organizations - as well as observers who have long watched the trajectory of the Naxalite movement - believe that the 'peace process' in Andhra Pradesh - and in any other State where it may be initiated in the proximate future - would inevitably collapse within six-odd months, after which a reinvigorated PWG can be expected to resume violent activities.
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