May be Zoglul Husain can shed some light on this allegation and Isha Khan can post it. By the way, this allegation is not only against his leader Khaleda's son, it has indeed a long list of people from many countries who took bribes from Siemens, i.e., they didn't prepare this case to tarnish the holy image of his leader and her family members. Only one page in the report covers Siemens' Bangladesh bribery. But I am pretty sure the brilliant mind of Zoglul Husain will come up with some global and universal conspiracy theories which will prove this totally fabricated case against one of our innocent leaders as a plot of the evil axis of USA-India-Israel .
From Page 19 - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Case Against Siemens' Worldwide Bribery:
Between 2004 and 2006, Siemens COM paid approximately $5.3 million in bribes to government officials in Bangladesh in connection with a contract with the Bangladesh Telegraph & Telephone Board (BTTB) to install mobile telephone services. The. total value of the contract was approximately $40.9 million. The payments were made to three business consultants pursuant to sham agreements calling for services associatedwith the mobile telephone project. The ultimate recipients of the payments included the son of the then-Prime Minister in Bangladesh, the Minister of the Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications in Bangladesh, and the BTTB Director of Procurement. In addition, Siemens Limited Bangladesh, a regional company, hired relatives. of two other BTTB and Ministry of Post and Telecom officials. Most of the money paid to the business consultants waS routed through correspondent accounts in the United States, with at least one payment originating &om a U.S. account. Since approximately September 2004, a Siemens business consultant who served as a principal payment intermediary on the Bangladesh bribe payments has been resident in the United States. At least $1.7 million of the bribe payments made through this intermediary were paid into a Hong Kong bank account while the intermediary was residing in the United States.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@...> wrote:
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> Of election and the evil axis
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> By Zoglul Husain, UK
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> London 21 December 2008. Barrister Rafiqul Huq, one of the most famous barristers in Bangladesh, who defended Khaleda, Hasina and many other high-profile defendants in their cases, brought in during the tenure of the interim government, blasted the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday, as reported by the daily `Amar Desh' today 21 December 2008, by saying that there cannot be a worse example than what the ACC has done about Arafat Rahman Koko in order to influence the results of the forthcoming general election. He suggested that urgent actions should be taken against Col. Hanif Iqbal, Director-General of ACC, in this regard.
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> 80% ACC cases politically motivated:
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> He also claimed that 80% of the cases filed by the ACC were politically motivated, of which he has proofs, and that the present case against Koko is baseless.
>
> These alarming claims about the ACC by a barrister, who is independent of political parties and who is professionally regarded with highest respect, must ruffle the small remnants of the supporters of the interim government. It would be absolutely foolish to discount the statement of Barrister Rafiqul Huq. And, so, the questions must be raised as to why should the ACC try an act of influencing the election and why should the interim government and the ACC, lodge a huge number of cases, 80% of which were politically motivated? The one, only and definite answer to the questions is that the interim government was brought in for a political purpose. And what was then this political purpose?
>
> Take over by evil axis
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> The evil US-Israel-India axis, which is actively engaged in trying to control West-, Central-, South- and East Asia for the plunder of oil-gas and for geo-strategic reasons, brought in the military-controlled interim government in Bangladesh with the aim of (i) robbing us of our independence and sovereignty, (ii) plundering us of our natural resources and (iii) subjugating Bangladesh for their geo-strategic objectives. But the axis has so far failed in their objectives pretty miserably, in the main because of the quiet and passive resistance, massively offered by the people of Bangladesh, though the axis had a significant and considerable influence over a large section of the administration and the intelligentsia. Obviously, the powers in the evil axis have not learnt from history and they have still been untiringly conspiring for their control over Bangladesh, in which they will not succeed.
>
> Third Force
>
> It was in 2005 when, as the harbinger of the scenario in the offing, the former US ambassador Harry K Thomas declared that a third force, i.e. other than BNP and BAL, will come to power in Bangladesh. Endowed with many good qualities, Harry K Thomas however was not known for fortune telling or occultism, but his predictions came true when on one-eleven 2007 the military controlled interim government took over power in Bangladesh, by cancelling the election scheduled on 22 January 2007, in which the BNP were deemed to return to power. The truth is: Harry K Thomas, in 2005 simply informed the worldwide network of the US allies and operatives, about the blue print of what they were up to in Bangladesh.
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> Minus Two Scenario:
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> Another Westerner who opened his mouth in this regard is the Canadian Human Rights lawyer Attorney William Sloan, who in a press conference on 8 March 2008 in New York, revealed that there was a blue print to engineer a clash between political parties, which would provide a good excuse to impose emergency law and bring in a military controlled government. He said: "In August 2005,..., I had conversations in Dhaka with an MP and a newspaper editor who told me about what they called a "minus two" scenario that they described as follows:
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> 1. In the run-up to the 2007 elections, street violence, which is always present during election campaigns in Bangladesh, would be used to justify cancelling the elections. The decision would be taken by the "Caretaker Government" charged with running the country during the three-month election campaign. 2. A State of Emergency would be declared and the Armed Forces would in effect take control. 3. An anti-corruption drive would be initiated to extract "the two Begums", Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina, from the political scene. 4. The political landscape would be redrawn before the holding of elections, with a "new" political leadership more acceptable to the US State Department." And Attorney William Sloan observed:
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> "It appears that my interlocutors had crystal balls. The scenario has played out as written, with explicit public support from the US-UK-Canada diplomatic corps which seems to have assumed a 21st Century "White Man's Burden" of remodelling political life in Bangladesh. There is of course a disturbing parallel with US support for General Musharraf in Pakistan and the exclusion of Bhutto and Sharif."
>
> Objectives:
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> There cannot be any doubt that the blue print for a take over of power and the plan of `remodelling political life' for establishing a subservient government with the intention of subjugating Bangladesh was finalised at least by 2005. And so, what were the objectives?
>
> They want to take control of any gas, coal, offshore oil-gas etc. that Bangladesh has and also they want absolute control of the market. India wants transit, three-country gas pipeline, control of Chittagong port, control of land-, river- and sea routes, multiple-connectivity at several border points and trans-shipment through all routes. The US and India want a deep sea port at their terms i.e. Bangladesh will repay the huge loan with interest, while they will use the port at their discretion, the US wants a naval base in Chittagong area. India wants control over our armed forces and they proposed a joint military operation inside Bangladesh, with India, to flush out ULFA, just as they did in Bhutan in 2003 and since then Indian army has been permanently stationed in Bhutan, and Bhutan has become a dependent territory of India. In the past, India proposed to supply and train our armed forces. The evil axis also has other geo-strategic objectives in the
> area, including Indian Ocean and China,
>
> People's resistance
>
> The politics, as it stands at present, is that the three powers of the evil axis with the support of Europe and their other allies want to reduce Bangladesh to a vassal state of India with the aim of annexing it as a dependent state at a later stage. But their wishful aspirations will not be fulfilled. The valiant people of Bangladesh will resolutely resist the aggression of the imperialists and the hegemonists. The people resisted the conspirators over the last two years and thwarted all their machinations.
>
> The interim government was compelled to give up their `minus two' policy. They illegally sent a huge number of people to prison, but now they have been compelled to release majority of them. They, from behind the scenes, dictated the judiciary, the ACC, the Election Commission (EC) and the administration. But all their plans and programs failed. They launched the non-stop propaganda that they would uproot corruption, but corruption increased a lot during the tenure of this government. What is worse, they evicted hundreds of thousands of shanty dwellers, hawkers, small shop owners and tenants causing inhuman misery to these hapless people. In the name of recovering government lands, they destroyed many buildings, thousands of shops, rural bazaars and economic activity centres. They ended up in ruining the national economy to such an alarming state that serious economists are asserting that the economy has fallen back ten to twenty years. In a
> nutshell, this is a government of destruction, prompted by their foreign masters.
>
> Election
>
> Their political activities are even more sordid. They tried to banish both Khaleda and Hasina, tried to break up the BNP and the BAL in the name of reform, tried unsuccessfully many times to form a kings party or kings front. But in spite their best efforts they failed miserably. Having been compelled to give up the `minus two' formula, the reform of existing parties and the formation of kings parties, they are now hurriedly organising an election. They are on the reverse gear so fast that the whole car is unsteady.
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> The evil axis and the government will try to control the election as much as they can and it is possible that the elected government will be controlled from behind the scenes by the military. The election will not be free, fair, credible or acceptable. For, the EC under this government has never been impartial, the present government's set up of administration has never been impartial, the Representation of People Ordinance 2008 is repressive and not supported by the main political parties, and above all the parties have been bulldozed to break up to a large extent, especially the BNP. Amid all these oddities, the parties are participating in the election, as an elected government is better than an un-elected government and a civilian elected government is better than a military dictatorship.
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> Resistance to conspiracies
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> It would be right at this point to issue a stark warning to the imperialist and hegemonist powers and their lackeys that the people of Bangladesh will defend their independence and sovereignty with all their might and will also defend their national interest with all their strength. The conspirators may make inroads to the government, administration, professions, businesses, etc., but they will never be able to conquer the people. It is through their resolute struggle and defiant resistance that the people will in the end smash the imperialist and hegemonist conspiracies in Bangladesh to smithereens!
>
> Writer: Zoglul Husain
> E-mail: zoglul@...
>
> http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=237362
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