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[mukto-mona] An Article on the Afgan War: Diferent Angle

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Click on the link below to get the article on the Afghan War and the role Bangladesh could play in that country.

Ishfaq

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=110993

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[mukto-mona] Assault on media hinders democracy [1 Attachment]

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Dear Editor,
 
Hope you are doing well and thanks for publishing my previous write ups.
 
This is an article titled "Assault on media hinders democracy". I will be highly honoured if you publish this article. I apprecite your time to read this article.
 
Thanks
 
Have a nice time
 
With Best Regards
 
Ripan Kumar Biswas
New York, U.S.A
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Assault on media hinders democracy
 
Ripan Kumar Biswas
Ripan.Biswas@yahoo.com
 
Bangladesh's notorious anti-crime force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a continuous assault beat a newsman of a Dhaka based national English daily newspaper with truncheons and rubbed salt into the wounds and tried to identify him as a drugs dealer keeping him in detention for around 12 hours.
 
FM Masum, a journalist of the daily New Age, was picked up from his rented house in Jatrabari, Dhaka by some RAB officials on October 22, 2009 and was brought to the RAB 10 headquarters where he was blindfolded and his hands were tied and was repeatedly beaten and in addition, was also threatened by the battalion officers to be killed in "crossfire." The whole assault was believably staged as Masum wrote several reports about this paramilitary unit including on its involvement in extrajudicial killings such as death in crossfire or encounter and also on illicit trading of drug substances. The agitation even went further when RAB officials realized who he was and that he worked for the newspaper. They planted six bottles of banned Phensidyl cough syrups on Masum's bed and later retrieved them, they alleged.
 
However, in a dramatic movement resulting from the direct intervention by the home minister and secretary, countrywide protest by the all news media, and protests by the teachers, students and officials of different institutions and organizations including Dhaka University and enlightened citizenry, victim reporter was released on an undertaking saying that he was in good health when released. Moreover, the anticrime force offered a sincere apology to the victim including others stating that it was a mistake and an untoward incident had taken place while the force were in an anti-drug drive near the victim's residential area. The statement, in addition, included a formation of a committee to probe the incident and a discharging order against the main perpetrator flight lieutenant Anisur Rahman.
 
So far so good from the government side but the question-- where is the sign of the country's new government's commitment to exercise the rule of law, human rights, and democratic principles and its promise that it will put an end to any abuses or extrajudicial executions by any security forces including the RAB as it has already earned a bad name for its so-called cross-fire deaths. The recent assault on a reporter as according to the RAB officials is a mistake, is simply carrying things too far, clearly beyond the law and a fundamental attack on the free press.
 
As a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other human rights treaties, Bangladesh is obliged to investigate thoroughly and promptly serious violations of human rights, prosecute the perpetrators in accordance with international fair-trial standards, and appropriately punish them if their guilt is established. But Bangladeshi governments since independence in 1971 have been unwilling to prosecute and punish state officers responsible for grave human rights violations. The problem is one of both law and practice. While a prompt and effective step are always expected to stop any attempts that go beyond law, one of the senior minister of the Sheikh Hasina's cabinet, Shahjahan Khan upheld the necessity of extrajudicial attempts by the security forces like RAB in an interview at the BBC's Bangladesh Sanglap at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on October 3,  2009.
 
In response to the persecution of the journalist, leader of the opposition of the parliament Khaleda Zia criticized the government. "The country has reached such a dire position that journalists are also falling victim to torture," she said while her government formed this anti-crime unit and frequently used it according to their need.
 
The United Kingdom and the United States have over the past year provided training to RAB in the stated hope that the force will improve its human rights record and eventually become a more effective counterterrorism outfit. But since RAB was established in mid-2004, its members have killed more than 500 people in what it usually refers to as "crossfire" or "encounter "killings or "shootouts." At least 50 journalists were tortured by RAB since 2004.
 
The challenge of pluralism in Bangladesh is enormous and the gap between the fundamental rights promised in the country's constitution and the banality of freedom of speech is now the latest experience in Bangladesh. According to the article 35(b), Part-III of the constitution of Bangladesh, freedom of the press is guaranteed. Article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, which asserts "freedom of expression is a fundamental human right" clearly indicates that press freedom and freedom of information are the basic principles for good governance, development, and peace.
 
The media is an essential component of a democratic society as access to a free, independent and pluralistic media is essential for gaining awareness of the issues that matter, both nationally and internationally. There is no doubt to say that only and one achievement of democracy in Bangladesh is its press. Although journalists are targeted by Islamist and Maoist groups, as well as officials and politicians, it was the press which figured out the Islamic militants in Bangladesh.
 
Bangladesh government and its intelligence agencies very often threaten, intimidate, and intervene journalists and editors for the reports that go against them. Journalists are detained for their reports about the random arbitrary arrests, torture, ill-treatment, detention, physical disabilities, psychological fear and panic, deaths in custody, deprivation of medical treatment, distortion and destruction of medico-legal evidences, concealment of the truth regarding cases of custodial torture, extreme suppression of the freedom of expression and absolute injustice to the victims by the administration of Bangladesh.
 
But the joint product of the law enforcement agencies and journalistic collaborations and a better understanding between the two would result in improved synergy. Despite the media's focus on law enforcement agencies deviance, on many levels the relationship is symbiotic rather than antagonistic. The news media feeds the public a daily dose of crime stories. On these stories, law enforcement agencies serve as major news sources, sometimes the only news source. The media acts as a bridge between the people and the law enforcing agencies and therefore these two components have to work in tandem to reach out to the people's aspirations, especially in troubled times.
 
In a democracy, the role of the press is two-fold: to inform the public and, more importantly, to act as a watchdog on government activities. There should be a very delicate balance to be struck between, on the one hand, the needs of the government to ensure the security and peace of the state and, on the other hand, the needs of the media to be free, open and capable of criticizing the government. Curving the freedom of press is an obstacle to democracy and it damages the national image.
 
As a commitment to remove all obstacles to press freedom, improve the conditions for independent and professional journalism, and to empower citizens to engage in public debate, no one should restrict or attack the freedom of the press or compromise the right of the news media to gather, produce, and disseminate information in secure and safe conditions.

Monday, October 26, 2009, New York
Ripan Kumar Biswas is a freelance writer based in New York


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[mukto-mona] ADVISORY (Mon. 10/26 @ 12:30 p.m.): Electeds & Community Leaders To Denounce Racially Divisive Mail From Republican City Council Candidate




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Contact: Michael Tobman, (718) 915-6460, michael@hudsontgp.com

 

Elected Officials & Community Leaders

To Denounce Racially Divisive Mail From

Republican City Council Candidate

 

Elected officials and Queens community leaders supporting Democratic City Council candidate Kevin Kim will gather at Queens Borough Hall to denounce Republican candidate Dan Halloran for his recent mailings using lies and racially-charged images and language in order to divide the people of Northeast Queens.

 

A poster-size blow-up and handout copies of Halloran's latest negative mail piece will be available.

 

Council District 19 includes the Northeast Queens neighborhoods of Bayside, College Point, Douglaston, Little Neck, Malba and Whitestone.

 

WHEN:            MONDAY, OCT. 26 @ 12:30 p.m.

 

WHERE:          Queens Borough Hall

                        120-55 Queens Boulevard

                        Kew Gardens, QUEENS

 

WHAT:            Elected officials and Northeast Queens community leaders will denounce racially divisive campaign mail from Republican City Council candidate Dan Halloran.

 

VISUAL:             A poster-size blow-up and handout copies of Halloran's latest mail piece

 

WHO:              Borough President Helen Marshall

                        Democratic City Comptroller Nominee John Liu

                        State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky

                        Assemblyman Mark Weprin

                        Rep. Joseph Crowley staff representative

                        District Leader & Queens Young Dems President Costa Constantinides

                        Community leader Warren Schreiber

                        Other community leaders and supporters

 

CONTACT:            Michael Tobman, (718) 915-6460, michael@hudsontgp.com


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[mukto-mona] FW: Ban on Organization: Proper Procedure Should Be Followed



 

 

Ban on Organization: Proper Procedure Should Be Followed

 

 

Press has reported on 23rd October that the government on Thursday banned operation of Islamist organisation Hizb-ut-Tahrir on security ground, a senior home ministry official said.  The home affairs ministry issued an official order imposing restriction on Bangladesh’s operations of the international outfit, already banned in many other countries including Pakistan and the USA for suspected links with militancy.   Sheikh Hasina’s cabinet on March 16, 2009 sent back to the home ministry its report on the activities of militant outfits in the country asking it to give more information about such organisations and their networks.The report, placed in the regular cabinet meeting, named a dozen such outfits with information on their organograms, sources of funding, links to political parties and their operations.
   The press reported on 24th October that the organization was not allowed to hold a press conference to explain their position.The police also kept their leader confined to his house.

As far as we know the party operates in UK as a legal group.They also held a major conference recently in the USA. Hizbut Tahrir applied for registration to the Election Commission.As far as we know they are a law abiding party in Bangladesh  and committed to peaceful activities.We do not support banning  any openly active organisation without serving show cause .We do not want that an open organization becomes under ground which is bad for all.There should be a proper procedure for this



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[mukto-mona] 9/11 Scholars Forum - New Book: 9/11 TRUTH: SMOKING GUNS by Deepak Sarkar



9/11 Truth Smoking Guns – From the author of “Poems by Kolki – Absolutely Humane” and “Real Path To 9/11    [See also 9/11 Scholars Forum - New Book: 9/11 TRUTH: SMOKING GUNS by Deepak Sarkar]

 

 

9/11 Was A Well-Scripted Military Coup Hijacking Airliners Remotely Coordinating Neoconians At All Levels of Government and Key Private Investors and Decision Makers With Strong Ties To Military, Oil & Defence Industry, who have been vouching and waiting for the “New Pearl Harbour” as depicted in the Neoconian dossier “The Project of the New American Century (PNAC)”, for US/NATO evangelic world supremacy in peace time.    

 

Excerpts from the book “Real Path To 9/11”, ISBN: 978-1-4251-5167-6, being Published from Trafford Publishing:

 

Creating Tomorrow’s Dominant Force - the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a New Pearl Harbour”.

Signatories [Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer,  William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg,     Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz,  Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen ]

 

Here is how they implemented “New Pearl Harbour” blaming Virtual Bin Laden with concerted media voice:

 

          Why NORAD hijacking protocol was changed before 9/11 especially

          sending the new responsible coordinator Mike Canavan to Puerto Rico

          without back up? [http://www.kolki.com/peace/NORAD-Hijacking-Protocol.htm] 

 

            The most important Government Action which led to the success of the

          9/11 destruction inside USA was the change in NORAD hijacking protocol

          before 9/11: Per 1st Air Force's own book about 9/11, the “sector

          commander [at NEADS] would have authority to scramble the

          airplanes.”). But,

 

          Protocols in place on 9/11 stated that if the FAA needed the military

          to go after an airplane, “the escort service will be requested by the

          FAA hijack coordinator by direct contact with the National Military

          Command Center (NMCC).” But the FAA hijack coordinator, Mike

          Canavan, was silent in Puerto Rico without backup. [Smoking Gun]

 

          Why US military and NORAD preponed scheduled yearly Military

Exercises (Practice Armageddon, Global Guardian, Vigilant Warrior,

Amalgam Warrior and Vigilant Guardian – running war games including

airliner crashing) from October 22-31, 2001, to the week of September 11,

          2001? [Smoking Gun]

 

          Why Vice President Dick Cheney would order Flight 77 to hit

          Pentagon as per then Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta’s

          testimony: "during the time that the airplane was coming into the

          Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and said to the

          Vice President, 'the plane is 50 miles out, the plane is 30 miles out.'

          And when it got to 'the plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said

          to the Vice President, 'Do the orders still stand?' And the Vice

          President...said, 'Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard

          anything to the contrary?"? [Smoking Gun]

 

          Standard order was to shoot down any non-military aircraft entering the

          “Prohibited” airspace over Washington, in which “Civilian flying is

          prohibited at all times” (“Pilots Notified of Restricted Airspace;

          Violators Face Military Action,” FAA Press Release, September 28, 2001).

          (Note. Yet no military action was taken to evacuate and save Pentagon!)

Why Vice President Dick Cheney warned President Bush that hijackers

had access to the transponder of Air Force One suggesting hijackers were

capable of remote hijacking even Air Force One?

         

          Why then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld would say in Iraq “…the

          people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the

          plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon….”?

         

          Why 9/11 Commission Report would stress Flight 93 crashed when

          Donald Rumsfeld, President and Vice President stated clearly that it

          was shot down?

          "Well, I discussed it with the president. Are we prepared to order our

          aircraft to shoot down these airliners that have been hijacked? He said

          yes...  I--it was my advice. It was his decision."(Vice President Dick

          Cheney, September 11, 2001, source CBS News Archives)

 

          "That's a sobering moment, to order your own combat aircraft to shoot

          down your own civilian aircraft. But it was an easy decision to make,

          given the--given the fact that we had learned that a commercial aircraft

          was being used as a weapon. I say easy decision. It was--I didn't hesitate;

          let me put it to you that way. I knew what had to be done."(President

          George W. Bush, September 11, 2001, source CBS News Archives)

 

          How and why Cessna trained box cutter armed hijackers would hit

          Pentagon precisely destroying the newly refurbished Navy Command

          Center (NCC) capable of intelligence gathering similar to NSA, the

          Army Budget Office having books of $2.3 trillion missing from

          Pentagon and US Army’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel?

            [http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/noplane/distraction.html]

 

          Why FBI higher ups tried so desperately before 9/11 to stop fellow FBI

          Agents from searching suspected Al-Qaeda Zakarias Moussaoui’s laptop, yet

          charged him for masterminding 9/11 afterwards? (Note. A simple pre 9/11

          search would have exposed the covert spectacular implementation

          planed by people from inside!)  [Smoking Gun]

          Dave Frasca of the FBI’s Radical Fundamentalist Unit (RFU) denied a request

          from the Minneapolis FBI field office to seek a criminal warrant to search the

          belongings of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested on August 15 as part of an

          intelligence investigation. [US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,

            Alexandria Division, 3/9/2006]. A criminal warrant to search Moussaoui’s belongings

          would be granted only after the 9/11 attacks (September 11, 2001).

 

          Why alleged mastermind Zakarias Moussaoui’s diary had US private

          Mercenary company Blackwater’s telephone number?

            [http://www.kolki.com/peace/Zacaria-Moussaui.doc]

 

            Why Pakistan’s ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed who

          allegedly transferred 100,000+ to alleged 9/11 mastermind Atta’s

          Florida Account was entertained by the higher ups in Bush

          Administration, Pentagon, and Key congressional members including

          Christopher Cox and Joe Biden, before, on, and after 9/11?

          [Smoking Gun]

         

          Why on August 31, 2001, Transportation Department Held Plane

          Hijacking Exercise similar to 9/11 including cell phone calls?

          According to Ellen Engleman, the administrator of the DOT’s Research and

          Special Programs Administration, “This was actually much more than a

          tabletop exercise, during that exercise, part of the scenario, interestingly

          enough, involved a potentially hijacked plane and someone calling on a cell

          phone, among other aspects of the scenario that were very strange when 12

          days later, as you know, we had the actual event [of 9/11].”

          [Mineta            Transportation Institute, 10/30/2001, pp. 108]

          [Note. Rehearsals like this as well in Pentagon directly contradicted

          then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s statement that no one

          could ever envision planes would be used as missiles?]

 

     World Trade Center Demolition?

On September 11th 2001, BBC World reported at 4:57pm Eastern Time

that the Salomon Brothers Building (more commonly known as WTC7 or

World Trade Building 7) had collapsed. This even made the 5pm EST

Headlines! But what was bizarre was that the building did not

actually collapse until 5:20pm EST suggesting strongly BBC was also part

of the New Pearl Harbour implementation script. [Smoking Gun]

 

WTC complex owner Larry Silverstein rushed immediately calling his

people over cell phone to pull it down, which he admitted on a

September 2002 PBS documentary, 'America Rebuilds' that he and the

NYFD decided to 'pull' WTC 7 on the day of the attack. The word 'pull' is

industry jargon for taking a building down with explosives.

 

Official explanations for the dramatic free fall of Twin Towers and WTC7

had been very consistent, twin towers fell from the heat of the burning

fuel causing also the fall of WTC7 in a similar fashion.

 

But 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry directly contradicted the official story about WTC7 when questioned by members of ‘Austin 9/11 Truth Now’:  “I do know that that wall, I remember, was in danger and I think they made the decision based on the danger that it had in destroying other things, that they did it in a controlled fashion."

 

Pulling down WTC7 is another smoking gun because wiring a massive 47 storied building like WTC7 would require weeks of expert preparations suggesting all three buildings were wired for controlled

demolitions synchronizing with the remotely hijacked GPS controlled precisely programmed crash of Flight 11 and Flight 175 (Boeing 767). 

 

Rest is detail in the book, part of which can be viewed as:

www.kolki.com/peace/Simple-Proof-Final.htm

 

Now we know why President Bush and Vice President Cheney vehemently opposed any congressional or public inquiry resulting in the frustrations of Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator, "If they were to do real investigations we would see several significant high level criminal prosecutions in this country. And that is something that they are not going to let out. And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up."

[http://www.kolki.com/peace/FBI-Translator-Sibel-Edmonds-Interview.htm]

 

Author: Deepak Sarkar, 844 Royal Oak Ave, Victoria, BC V8X3T2, Canada; Tel/Fax: 250-412-2897; E-mail: Deepak.Sarkar@ieee.org ; Poetry & Peace Web Site: www.kolki.com;

 

 



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