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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

[ALOCHONA] BSF being geared up as an accelerated killing machine



Choppers, anti-mine vehicles new teeth for BSF

To strengthen vigil along the Bangladesh border further, India's border troopers are to use Dhruv light helicopters, mine protected vehicles (MPV) and other modern gadgets and devices, a top Border Security Force (BSF) officer said here on Tuesday.

"Considering the vulnerability and other security perceptions, we have to strengthen the surveillance along the international border with Bangladesh," BSF's Tripura frontier inspector general, Ashok Kumar Jain, said. According to the senior Indian Police Service officer, some MPVs have already been introduced in a number of BSF units along the border while the choppers would be pressed into service by next month.

"The light chopper would provide aid to the troopers for quick deployment during any emergency and to supply foodstuff to the BOPs (border outposts) situated at inaccessible locations, and also to intercept movement of militants of separatist outfits," he added. Over 80 per cent of the 856-km India-Bangladesh border in Tripura has already been fenced and work on the remaining portion is on.

The ongoing construction of barbed wire fencing is expected to be completed by March 2012. "Our close watch and guard would be mainly along the unfenced, porous border," the BSF official said. India and Bangladesh share a 2,979-km land border and 1,116 km of riverine boundary in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Assam.

Besides using night vision devices, the BSF is to introduce non-lethal weapons like batons, rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas along the border by next month. "The specially made rubber bullets would also be used on intruders or smugglers. There is no chance of death, but the injured person would suffer severe pain," he said.

According to the official, security forces are currently using non-lethal weapons only in Jammu and Kashmir to disperse violent mobs. Security personnel have also been using non-lethal weapons to deal with internal security troubles and crowds.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Choppers-anti-mine-vehicles-new-teeth-for-BSF/articleshow/7314494.cms



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[ALOCHONA] FW: Last Round of Mayoral Election Marred by Violence: B NP over all winner -editorial



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Round of Mayoral Election Marred by Violence: B NP over all winner  

 

Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed candidates dominated the municipality elections winning 97 mayoral positions while ruling Awami League-backed candidates won 90 seats of  242 municipalities.The staggered polls to 242 municipalities across the country ended with elections to 58 municipalities in the Chittagong and Sylhet Divisions on Tuesday amid sporadic incidents of clashes and attacks on polling centres in places. Five Jamaat-e-Islami-backed candidates, one Jatiya-Party-backed candidate, one Liberal Democratic Party-backed candidate and a rebel Jatiya Party candidates were also elected mayors.The Election Commission suspended or withheld the results of nine municipalities in three divisions — Kaliakair and Ghatail in Dhaka, Habiganj in Sylhet and Senbagh, Noakhali, Kabirhat, Nangalkot, Sonagazi and Patiya in Chittagong

This is an over all victory for BNP.They have come round from serious defeat in 2008 Parliament election. For Awami League it is a serious loss,they have declined in a large measure indicating policy failures of the government. For Jatiya Party also it is a total loss. It should review its policy. As for Jamaate Islami, they contested in about 40 mayoral posts, leaving all others to BNP.But they have secured only 5 seats.They have lost even in some of their rural heartlands, This they should investigate and determine their future strategy..Awami League should stop its repressive policies if they have to do better in future.BNP has to find out an honest team if they have to run the country again in future.



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[ALOCHONA] Why the CIA is spying on a changing climate



Why the CIA is spying on a changing climate


by Charles Mead and Annie Snider
 
LAST summer, as torrential rains flooded Pakistan, a veteran intelligence analyst watched closely from his desk at CIA headquarters just outside the capital.
For the analyst, who heads the CIA's year-old Centre on Climate Change and National Security, the worst natural disaster in Pakistan's history was a warning.
'It has the exact same symptoms you would see for future climate change events, and we're expecting to see more of them,' he said later, agreeing to talk only if his name were not revealed, for security reasons. 'We wanted to know: What are the conditions that lead to a situation like the Pakistan flooding? What are the important things for water flows, food security … radicalisation, disease and displaced people?'
As intelligence officials assess key components of state stability, they are realising that the norms they had been operating with—such as predictable river flows and crop yields—are shifting.
Yet the US government is ill-prepared to act on climate changes that are coming faster than anticipated and threaten to bring instability to places of US national interest, interviews with several dozen current and former officials and outside experts and a review of two decades' worth of government reports indicate.
Climate projections lack crucial detail, they say, and information about how people react to changes—for instance, by migrating—is sparse. Military officials say they don't yet have the intelligence they need in order to prepare for what might come.
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a 23-year veteran of the CIA who led the intelligence unit of the Department of Energy from 2005 to 2008, said the intelligence community simply wasn't set up to deal with a problem such as climate change that wasn't about stealing secrets.
'I consider what the US government is doing on climate change to be lip service,' said Mowatt-Larssen, who is currently a fellow at Harvard University. 'It's not serious.'
Just getting to where the intelligence community is now, however, has been a challenge.
Back in the 1990s, the CIA opened an environmental centre, swapped satellite imagery with Russia and cleared US scientists to access classified information. But when the Bush administration took power, the centre was absorbed by another office and work related to the climate was broadly neglected.
In 2007, a report by retired high-ranking military officers called attention to the national security implications of climate change, and the National Intelligence Council followed a year later with an assessment on the topic. But some Republicans attacked it as a diversion of resources.
And when CIA Director Leon Panetta stood up the climate change centre in 2009, conservative lawmakers attempted to block its funding.
'The CIA's resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves, not polar bears on icebergs,' Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, said at the time.
Now, with calls for belt tightening coming from every corner, leadership in Congress has made it clear that the intelligence budget, which soared to $80.1 billion last year, will have to be cut. And after sweeping victories by conservatives in the midterm elections, many political insiders think the community's climate change work will be in jeopardy.
Environmental issues have long been recognised as key to understanding what might happen in unstable countries. In the 1990s, while spies studied such things as North Korean crop yields, attempting to anticipate where shortages could lead to instability, the CIA also shared a trove of classified environmental data with scientists through a programme that became known as Medea.
'The whole group (of scientists) were patriots and this was an opportunity to help the country do something about the train wreck (we) saw coming' from climate change, said Robert Bindschadler, a glaciologist at NASA who received a security clearance when Medea started in 1992.
Cleared scientists also helped the CIA interpret environmental data and improve collection methods, former CIA Director John Deutch said in a 1996 speech.
But the Republican-controlled Congress gradually trimmed these programmes, and after President George W Bush took office in 2001, top-level interest in environmental security programs disappeared. Intelligence officials working on them were reassigned.
Terry Flannery, who led the CIA's environmental security centre until 2000, said he had to tread lightly in his final years running it.
'You had this odd thing where it became an interchange of science and politics,' he said. 'At times, it was just strange.'
Retired general Michael Hayden, who led the CIA from 2006 to 2009, said issues such as energy and water made Bush's daily briefings, but climate change was not a part of the agenda.
'I didn't have a market for it when I was director,' Hayden said in a recent interview. 'It was all terrorism all the time, and when it wasn't, it was all Iran.'
The Bush administration's open scepticism of global warming hurt the intelligence community's efforts to track its impact. A 2007 congressional oversight report found the administration 'engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming.'
Today, climate scientists say their research is hindered by a data gap resulting from inadequate funding during the Bush years. In 2005, the National Research Council said the nation's environmental satellite system was 'at risk of collapse.'
Even during the Bush administration, though, pockets of work moved forward.
In 2007, Department of Energy intelligence chief Mowatt-Larssen built an experimental programme called Global Energy & Environment Strategic Ecosystem, or Global EESE. He tapped Carol Dumaine, a CIA foresight strategist known around the agency as a creative visionary, to lead the programme.
'Our modern intelligence evolved for a different type of threat: monolithic, top-down, incrementally changing,' Dumaine, who has since returned to the CIA, said in a recent interview. She, on the other hand, was 'trying to grow a garden of intelligence genius.'
The programme brought together more than 200 of the brightest minds from around the world to explore the impact of issues such as abrupt climate change, energy infrastructure and environmental stresses in Afghanistan.
But after only two years, the programme was shuttered. Former members say it was brought down by bureaucratic infighting, political pressure from Congress and the Bush White House, and concerns about including foreign nationals in the intelligence arena.
'The most important thing we lost is data. We lost the data that accompanies new ways of conducting intelligence and for getting it right with environmental problems,' Mowatt-Larssen said.
In April 2007, a group of high-ranking retired military officers published a report that said projected changes to the climate posed a 'serious threat to America's national security.'
Within weeks, a handful of lawmakers from both parties were pushing to get climate change back on the intelligence community's agenda.
Chuck Hagel, then a Republican senator from Nebraska, drafted legislation that called climate change 'a clear and present danger to the security of the United States' and would have required an intelligence report on it.
Although the provision went nowhere, the National Intelligence Council moved ahead on its own.
'The goal was to produce enough understanding of the effects, the way they played out, government capacity, to tee up for US government agencies the kind of questions they better start asking now in order to be ready 20 years from now,' said Thomas Fingar, who was the chairman of the NIC at the time and now teaches at Stanford University.
Three months after the assessment was completed, the NIC appointed retired major general Richard Engel as the director of its new climate change and state stability programme.
Some lawmakers were so alarmed by the findings of the classified National Intelligence Assessment that they pushed for a resurrection of Clinton-era environmental intelligence programmes.
In the months since the CIA's climate change centre began operations, a team of about 15 analysts has inventoried the intelligence community's collection of environmental data, restarted the Medea programme and begun developing tools that bring global climate forecasts down to the regional level.
But Pentagon officials say the information they need most doesn't yet exist.
'Right now there's a gap between, OK, we can have a weather forecast for what the weather's going to be in the next month, and then we have the climate forecast, which is 30 to 100 years out,' said one Pentagon official, who spoke only after he was granted anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the news media. 'It really doesn't help the combatant commanders plan their operations.'
The defence department has sponsored research on climate change and security, and last year pledged $7.5 million to study impacts in Africa, where security experts say terrorism and climate change could become twin challenges for weak governments.
For example, some projections point to Niger, which had a military coup last year, as highly vulnerable to climate change.
'Before I started looking at Niger, I wouldn't have necessarily put it as a place that we would be that concerned about,' said Joshua Busby, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin conducting the Pentagon-funded research. 'But they provide a significant percentage of the world's uranium supplies, and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is active there.'
The CIA climate centre recently brought in an Africa specialist, and its director just returned from a visit to the continent.
Senior intelligence officials say it will take a marriage of regional experts and climate change specialists to make vital connections such as these.
Last December, the centre launched a website that gives other CIA analysts access to its work and the classified 2008 NIC assessment. The unit is now developing environmental warning software that combines regional climate projections with political and demographic information.
But whether this early work by the climate change centre will be enough to produce needed culture change within the intelligence community remains to be seen.
'You have a lot of regional experts who haven't thought in those terms,' said one senior intelligence official, who agreed to speak only if his name were not revealed, because of the sensitivity of the topic. 'That's the difficult part.'
Through the National Academy of Sciences, the CIA also is collaborating with outside experts who include leading climatologists, former CIA Director R James Woolsey and former vice-president Al Gore's national security adviser, Leon Fuerth.
Ralph Cicerone, a veteran of the 1990s Medea group who's now the president of the National Academy of Sciences, leads the work. He said the group was trying to fill scientific holes that could become major problems for policymakers.
'If some future president calls up the secretary of state or the director of Central Intelligence, and says, "Gee, I have this draft treaty on my desk, should I sign it? Can we verify it?" and one of them were to say to the president, "Gee, we never thought of that," that's not an acceptable answer,' Cicerone said.
Intelligence officials also say more work is needed on low-probability, high-impact events. In 2003, a Pentagon-sponsored study concluded that if rapid glacial melt caused the ocean's major currents to shut down, there could be conflicts over resources, migration and significant geopolitical realignments.
'We get a lot of these shocks of one kind or the other, whether it's Katrina or the financial crisis,' the senior intelligence official said. 'We need to be prepared to think about how we would deal with that.'
This summer, the CIA plans to host a climate war game looking at exactly these sorts of high-impact events. The CIA intends to build the scenarios with the help of security experts, scientists and insurance specialists, as well as Hollywood screenwriters who can conjure up the most unforeseeable and disastrous scenarios.
But politics makes such forward-thinking work risky. Intelligence analysis of climate change has been carefully designed to try to sidestep the topic's political controversy. The National Intelligence Council scrupulously avoided delving into the science of climate change, including whether it is man-made or cyclical, and the CIA climate centre has been instructed to do the same.
But with many newly elected Republicans questioning the scientific grounding of climate change and politicians from both sides of the aisle looking for places to cut spending, many think this intelligence work could be removed from the agenda.
New House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, plans to disband the House of Representatives' three-year-old global warming committee, which has pressed the connection between climate change and national security and held a hearing where Fingar and Mowatt-Larssen testified.
'There's just no doubt that the support for focusing on (climate issues) in the intelligence community—even energy security—has completely diminished,' said Eric Rosenbach, who served as Hagel's national security adviser. 'They need a champion.'
If a lack of political support causes this intelligence work to fall by the wayside once again, it probably will be the Pentagon that feels it most acutely. Not only is the military concerned with how a changing climate could increase conflict, but it is also the emergency responder to humanitarian crises worldwide.
'The Navy must understand where, when and how climate change will affect regions around the world,' Rear Admiral David Titley, the Navy's oceanographer, said in November at the last climate change hearing of the House Science Committee's Energy and Environment Subcommittee in the previous session of Congress.
The effects of climate change are most evident in Arctic ice melt, where 'new shipping routes have the potential to reshape the global transportation system,' Titley told subcommittee chairman Brian Baird, a Democratic representative from Washington.
The hearing began with a lively debate on climate science, but by the time Titley testified, Baird was the only committee member left.
But for the lone lame-duck congressman, Titley delivered his testimony to two rows of empty chairs.
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www.mcclatchydc.com, January 10. Charles Mead and Annie Snider are graduate students in Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. This story is part of Medill's National Security Reporting Project, which is overseen by Josh Meyer, a former national security writer for the Los Angeles Times who now teaches in Medill's Washington program, and Ellen Shearer, the director of Medill's Washington programme.
 
http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/op-ed/5573.html?print



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[ALOCHONA] Feminist Muslims? The view from Bangladesh



 
Feminist Muslims? The view from Bangladesh
 
The great majority of Bangladesh's 160 million citizens are Muslims, making it one of the world's largest Muslim communities. Bengali Islam is distinctive, shaped by a long history in which adherents of different religions lived side by side. A Muslim family prayed five times a day, but also went to the Hindu temple. Bengali Islam was seen as tolerant, infused with the poetry and language of love of the Sufi traditions. Bengali women rarely wore head coverings. People speak, with pride, about traditions where neighbors not only respected each other's religions but joined in celebrating all festivals.
 
Today, however, people talk of changes in the character of Bangladeshi Islam. These are visible in women's more covered dress, and audible in a more strident political discourse, less tolerant of diversity. The marker of 9/11 is said to account for some of the change, accentuated by the winds of globalization that have brought religious fundamentalism onto the scene. Today's Bangladeshi Islamic practice and its place in the political scene are colored by memories of Bangladesh's painful 1971 divorce from Pakistan. As in so many other places, Islam and politics are hard to separate, and today's political discourse is often polarized, prone to harsh rhetoric. Islam's role remains an issue, whether in educational curricula or in finance.
 
Women in Bangladesh fare relatively well, though true equality is a goal rather than a reality (not withstanding that the prime minister is a woman). Most girls go to school, family planning is quite widely available, and microcredit from the two famous providers - Grameen Bank and BRAC - give many women a chance of independence and a shot at greater prosperity. So the evidence that women, including those who are highly educated, are becoming more religious and more conscious of their Islamic identities, raises some questions.
 
What is happening, though, seems to be a new phenomenon, far from a regression to the past or acceptance of a harsher interpretation of women's roles in a Muslim society. Samia Huq, who is part of the BRAC Development Institute and has studied the topic, maintains that today's Bangladeshi women are determined to interpret Islam on their own terms. Women's approach to Islam is very much influenced by feminist terminology and discourse. And that discourse includes significant and rather unfamiliar facets, like assertions that Islam offers protection from violence against women. Bangladeshi women are challenging an approach to Islam that they see as misogynist, presenting instead a compelling spiritual case for equality and rights. The traditions that have cast women in subservient roles are not, they argue, Islamic, but the product of male-dominated cultures and a misreading of scripture. Instead, women are seeing their Islamic identity as a source of empowerment, and of liberation.
 
The new trends are taking at least two paths. One is political, acted out through the Muslim-linked political parties. Here, women are playing increasingly active roles. The other path, far more decentralized, is seen at the community and individual level, where women are interpreting religious texts for themselves and drawing their own conclusions on the spiritual lessons. Women preachers are emerging. Groups where women read religious texts and discuss them have mushroomed over the past ten years.
 
The discourse, for example, distinguishes between purdah of mobility and purdah of the mind and soul. Purdah of mobility is associated with subservience and the domination of men, while purdah of the mind and soul goes to the essence of individual purity and commitment.
 
Islam in Bangladesh, like all religions everywhere, is something living, shaped by the people who profess the faith and by the time and place they live. Bangladesh faces some of the world's most difficult challenges. Many people live in poverty and climate change is already having an effect; rising sea levels have driven hundreds of thousands of people to the capital, Dhaka. It is striking that gender is very much part of the national agenda, as is the role of religion. In both cases, change and challenge are the order of the day.
 
Many discussions about Islam focus on women's roles - their freedom of movement, whether they can attend school and work, their right to choose their husbands, their legal rights to inheritance and in divorce. Women are not passive bystanders in the debates. Instead, they are looking to their faith for an ethical anchor, for meaning as they assess their daily lives, and as a source of confidence and empowerment. Women actively living and reinterpreting Islam, looking to the essence of beliefs and teachings rather than to age-old cultural traditions, is an exciting trend. More power to them.
 
Katherine Marshall is a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, a Visiting Professor, and Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue.
 


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[ALOCHONA] Re: [KHABOR] Re: Recent dialogue between Hilory and Hasina




Friends

Does Bangladesh do have any prowess to protest ???? To my understanding we do not have any since we have lost our right by betraying the cause of the blood of the millions of Martyred Mukti Jodhdhas n submit unconditionally to the whims and caprice of the bestial boss HINDUSTAN.
This is truth n nothing but truth.

Since independence none of the successive government could raise any protest(for n except Zia's short tenure)  against the onslaught of the bestial HINDU STAN rather acted like a turtle by hiding the face in the cave . This is a shame for us for failing the cause of ocean of blood  sacrificed by the Martyred. The main shame for us that our small country has so many( in thousands) of Paa chata dalals of the beast in guise of Jibis who are ready to blew the "CHUNGA" of the Hayeina to cover up the atrocities done by them.

We need to be serious that  what we want and what is our(Bangladesh's) sense of direction should be n do we really want to stand up raising our head high with our coveted "LAL  SABUJ  PATAKA" flying high with dignity n honour as a sovereign entity in the comity of nation ????????

Let the heroic sacrifice of the Martyrs remain ever glowing in the "Akash Batash Nodi Prantor" of BANGLADESH  n the Lal Sabuj Pataka to fly high with right dignity n honour forever n ever.

Hell with HINDU  STAAANI Paa Chata Dalals n Paki Janwar's Doshors !!!!!!!!!


Faruque Alamgir


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net> wrote:
 


Mr. Golam Farid Akhter,
Human Rights Actist

If the conversation between Hillary and Hasina is true, how we should react ?
Until now Hasina government did not protest about this leak. We have to wait for their response and than people and human rights group can react.
This days nothing is secret and information technolgy can report most confidential communications between the governments that might compromise national interest.

Thank you,
M.Anwar

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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:44:08 -0500
Subject: Recent dialogue between Hilory and Hasina
Dear Bangladeshi Brothers and Sisters,
 
We , Bangladeshi-American citizen, should be interested in the relation between Bangladesh and USA, there should not be any encroachment in the internal affairs/administration of two sovereign  countries at the same time Universal Declaration of Human Rghts (    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights   ) should be honored and respected by the two member countries of UN, The following Facebook record of the recent unprotected taping of conversation between Secretary Hilory Clinton and Prime Minister Sheikh  Hasina , how far credible-  it is your personal judgment but be informed.
Regards.
Yours sincerely,
Golam F. Akhter
Bangladesh-- USA  Human Rights Coalition
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:08:37 -0500
Subject: [notun_bangladesh] Hillary Clinton - Sheikh Hasina tele-conversation
 
Hillary Clinton - Sheikh Hasina tele-conversation
Link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Salauddin-Quader-Chowdhury-The-Unbeaten-Politician/180751396660#!/notes/hidden-truth/hillary-clinton-sheikh-hasina-tele-conversation/181304455234007
Transcript of Hillary Clintons tele-conversation with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina:
 
Prime Minister Hasina (PM): Good Morning, Madame Secretary. I am very pleased to hear your voice.
 
Secretary Clinton: Good afternoon Madame Prime Minister. I hope I reached you at a good time.
 
PM: Yes, yes, you reached me at a good time. For you, any time is good time for me. Please feel free to call me anytime.
Secretary: Madame Prime Minister I have been updated by Ambassador-at-Large Stephen Rapp about his visit to Dhaka. Honestly, at the request of New Delhi, we sent him there and tried our best to help you better organize the trial. After listening from Amb. Rapp and our Ambassador Moriarty, I felt obligated to inform you that both I and President Obama take the issue of human rights in its proper spirit. It is on this context, I called you to inform you that United States does not support the trial in its form and content. Bangladesh has to reform the whole process in a way so that it doesn't become a conduit of punishing opposition.
 
PM: Madame Secretary, I understand your concern and I already asked my Law Minister to take note of what Amb. Rapp suggested. This is a trial we undertook with active support and assistance of New Delhi. I am sure Indian Ambassador in Washington DC will brief you further on that.
 
Secretary:  Prime Minister, United States stands for a certain values and policies which may or may not be the likes of New Delhi. Of course, we have been attentive to New Delhi's most of the suggestions but this one I thought I should forewarn you.
 
PM: Madame Secretary we noted your concerns and can tell you this much that this was in our manifesto and our people would like to see the trial should go on.
 
Secretary: Absolutely, but that has to done  in an way so that it is accepted internationally. I am sure, even people who voted for your party, may not accept the trial in its form and format which is, to our view, flawed and politically motivated. President Obama working hard to bring peace to your part of the world, Madame Prime Minister. Therefore, United States would not allow any action that may only help some legitimate political forces going underground to create more problem for you and thereby, for us as well.
 
PM: I understand. I understand. Don't worry we will fix it. Don't take it that seriously. We are doing it as we have to do and there are some culprits who we need to straighten up.
 
Secretary: Ambassador Rapp also informed me about your government's influence on the Judiciary and I was told how Judiciary is giving verdict they way you want. This is not good at the end. You have to be watchful.
 
PM: Thank you, thank you. I always value suggestion from yourself and President Clinton.
 
Secretary: Madame Prime Minister, let me come to the core point for which I called you. As you have seen even Washington Post picked up your treatment to Dr.Yunus and Grameen Bank. I thought it is about time to tell you how upset we are in Washington DC. I am personally upset because Dr.Yunus has been a family friend to the Clintons long before his wining of Nobel Prize.  President Clinton is equally upset. Hope you are aware how hard he worked to see Dr.Yunus gets this award. I know people may have personal issues, but when it comes to national icon like Dr.Yunus, I thought Bangladesh shouldn't demonize country's only Nobel Laureate.
 
PM: Madame Secretary, please listen, please listen----
 
Secretary: Madame Prime Minister, please let me finish first. I hope you are aware that President Obama is a big fan of micro-credit. He is a fan of microfinance since his mother had her thesis on this subject. So, I am making this call to let you know how upset both of us-President Obama and I-at your continued effort to demonize Dr.Yunus.
 
PM: Madame Secretary, I hope you are aware that it is not us who brought this issue. Norway is the first to complain about Dr.Yunus's misplaced fund. After all, this is our domestic issue and Madame Secretary we will do it  as per our own rules and regulations.
 
Secretary: Madame Prime Minister, I thought I would not have to go that far. But, unfortunately, I was wrong. I hope you know as much we know, how your government came to power. Don't forget that we helped you congratulating you after the election terming it as a free and fair. You know Prime Minister, how this election result was pre-arranged at the behest of our good friends in New Delhi. We acted the way they suggested us. And please don't forget that Gen. Moyeen, who brought you to power, now in the USA and perhaps, we now know, more than you could possibly imagine. Prime Minister, I am not saying that we will disown you so soon. I am just trying to place issues in the order of history demands it.
 
PM: Madame Secretary we are aware of your support and assistance. We will do all we can to keep you happy. Don't worry. We noted your point. Now let me know when you are coming to visit my country.
 
Secretary: Thanks for the invitations, Madame Prime Minister. I thank you for your time.
 
PM: Madame Secretary, Please bring President Clinton and your daughter and son in law.
 
Hilary hangs up on the other side

 
by Hidden Truth on Sunday, 16 January 2011 at 13:28
Note: Could anyone in the USA makes a request under the freedom of information act to State Department and proof the source wrong.




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[ALOCHONA] Re: [KHABOR] Dhaka to make strong protest against border killings: Why So Late?-editorial



Are Sir, at last the Chakar Bakar made a protest on the beating of Griho Korta/Korti .


The mew mew protest sounds like  "don't U know UR friendly killing it hurts the detractors of our friendship with U who doesn't view it as holy water of Ganga as we view n respect it n will uphold with our blood ???????? 

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:19 AM, S A Hannah <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com> wrote:
 

Dhaka to make strong protest against border killings: Why So Late?

Dhaka will make a 'strong protest' to India against the killing of innocent Bangladeshi citizens by the Indian Border Security Force when the home secretaries of both the countries meet in Dhaka on January 19 (Wednesday).'We will register a strong protest against the killing of innocent Bangladeshi civilians on the border at the home secretary-level meeting between Dhaka and Delhi,' said a senior official of the home affairs ministry.The two-day talks, starting with the meeting of a joint working group on Tuesday, will focus on frontier killings, border disputes, smuggling of narcotics and capacity building for both countries' law enforcers to maintain border security more effectively, the home ministry's joint secretary (political), Kamal Uddin Ahmed, told New Age on Sunday.The BSF on January 7 shot dead Felani, a Bangladeshi teenage girl, after she became entangled in the barbed-wire fence on the Kurigram border.Felani, 15, was reportedly returning to Bangladesh from India with her father Nurul Islam Nuru, a resident of south Ramkhana at Nageswari in Kurigram. They were coming from Delhi, where they worked, after her marriage with a boy in Bangladesh was arranged.Home affairs minister Sahara Khatun said on Sunday at her office that the Bangladesh government would raise the killing of Felani in the talks.In January 2011 at least four persons were reportedly killed by the BSF.Over the years the BSF has killed one Bangladeshi every four days, according to human rights organisation Odhikar, which has claimed that 74 Bangladeshis were killed, 72 injured and 43 abducted in 2010.Home affairs secretary, Abdus Sobhan Sikdar, will lead a 15-member team while his Indian counterpart, GK Pillai, will lead a 13-member delegation to the 11th home secretary-level meeting.Agreements at the two-day joint working group's meeting, beginning tomorrow (Tuesday), will be placed at the secretary-level meeting, Kamal Uddin said.Kamal Uddin will be leading a 12-member team and his counterpart Shambhu Singh will be leading a 10-member delegation to the 10th joint working group meeting.The 10th home secretary-level talks, held in Delhi from November 30 to December 2, finalized three agreements: one relating to mutual legal assistance on criminal matters, another on the transfer of sentenced persons, and the third, which came into effect last week, on combating international terrorism, organised crime and illegal drug trafficking.Bangladesh had earlier proposed to India that non-lethal weapons should be used by border guards to ensure that no unarmed civilians on the borders would be killed, but the Indian authorities have yet to make any response, said an official, adding that the matter would be raised again in the meeting in Dhaka.The National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh on Thursday formally requested the National Human Rights Commission of India to recommend that the Indian government should stop the repeated killing of Bangladeshis by its Border Security Force on the border.In its letter, the commission mentioned the tragic incident of Felani's killing.New York-based human rights group Human Rights Watch, in its report published on 9 December, 2010, said that the Indian government was following an 'apparent shoot to kill' policy. It said that the Indian government should investigate and prosecute BSF soldiers responsible for senseless killings.

We do not understand the reason for such delay in protesting the tragic killing of  a girl Felani by BSF in the most barbaric fashion. The picture of hanging girl from the border barbed wire erected by India has become an international scandal. The Government of Bangladesh should have lodged protest with Indian government after the incident,This killing is just one of hundreds. Bangladesh government should not take everything from India lying down.

 




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[ALOCHONA] Hypocrisy of Arab Muslim Rulers Unmasked



Hypocrisy of Arab Muslim Rulers Unmasked

By Dr. Sultan Ahmad

Quran ruled out a private subjective relationship with Allah that accentual personal salvation, but equally it debarred theocracy, rule in the name of Allah, and dictatorship, rule through brute power. Tyranny, whether religious or secular, countermanded the free spirit of Islam announced and promoted in the Quran. The most honored in the sight of Allah is the believer with the most taqwa. The Glorious Qur'an mentioned this in Surah al-Hujurat (49:13.

"Indeed, the most honorable of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous [consciousness and fear of Allah, piety]. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquinted."

Contrary to this teaching of Islam, almost all Arabic speaking Muslim majority countries are currently ruled by tyrant monarchs: Kings, Princes, Sheikhs' families. In the absence of popular public support, family is the main frame of the rulers and all heads of the departments of the governments in these countries are cousins of the ruling [royal(!)] families.

Wahhabi Islam is a movement within Islam that was founded in the 18th century CE by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab in central Arabia. Wahhab made the central point of his reform movement the principle that absolutely every idea added to Islam after the third century of the Mulsim era (about 950 CE) was false and should be eliminated. Muslims, in order to be true Muslims, must adhere solely and strictly to the original beliefs set forth by Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him). Contemporary secular behaviors are even more anathema to Wahhab's successors. It is against modernity, secularism, and the enlightenment which current Wahhabists do battle — and it is this anti-secularism, anti-modernism which helps drive their extremism, even to the point of violence. Wahhab gave the Al Saud tribe certain credence to attacking other tribes, circumventing the Quranic edict to not fight other Muslims.

Obviously, Wahhabi religious leaders reject any reinterpretation of the Qur'an when it comes to issues settled by the earliest Muslims. Wahhabists thus oppose the 19th and 20th century Muslim reform movements which reinterpreted aspects of Islamic law in order to bring it closer to standards set by the West, particularly with regards to topics like gender relations, family law, personal autonomy, and participatory democracy. Even today, Wahhais use the term when referring to the West and at times even to their own societies.

Failed to attact Muslims to his ideas, at last Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab settled in Dara'iyya, or Deraiya (in the Nejd), where he succeeded in converting the greatest notable, Mahommed ibn Sa'ud, who married his daughter, and so became the founder of a hereditary Wahhabite dynasty. According to Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab's teachings, a Muslim must present a bayah, or oath of allegiance, to a Muslim ruler during his lifetime to ensure his redemption after death. The ruler, conversely, is owed unquestioned allegiance from his people so long as he leads the community according to the laws of God. For the first time in Islamic history, Islam had to take shelter of political dynasty for its propagation – that is Wahhabism.

According to Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab, worship in Islam includes conventional acts of worship such as the five daily prayers; fasting; Dua (supplication); Istia'dha (seeking protection or refuge); Ist'ana (seeking help), and Istigatha (seeking benefits). Therefore, making dua to anyone or anything other than Allah, or seeking supernatural help and protection that is only befitting of a divine being from something other than Allah are acts of "shirk" and contradict Tawhid. While Saudi Wahhabis were "the largest funders of local Muslim Brotherhood chapters and other hard-line Islamists" during this time, they opposed jihadi resistance to Muslim governments and assassination of Muslim leaders because of their belief that "the decision to wage jihad lay with the ruler, not the individual believer."

Consumption of wine is forbidden to the believer because wine is literally forbidden in the Quran. Under the Wahhabis, however, the ban extended to all intoxicating drinks and other stimulants, including tobacco. Wahhabbism is considered as extremist and heretical mainly based on Wahhabbism's rejection of traditional Sunni scholars and interpretation.

Allah (swt) again says in Surah al-Baqarah (2:143) that this "Best Ummah" will also be witness over the mankind:

"And thus We have made you a median [just] community that you will be witnesses over the people and the Messenger [Muhammad] will be a witness over you".

The Wahhabi movement contradicts the above quoted assertion of the Holy Quran when it emphasizes the religion of Islam and its adherent Muslims as a "median [just] community" declaring all sorts of extremism void. Only about less than 1% of the 1.6 billion Muslims are followers of Wahhbism.

Contradicting to its teachings, ruling Wahhabi Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman, to name a few, depends on the Western Christian countries, especially America, over Glorious Allah for their protection. Is it not Shirk according to Wahhabism?

Wahhabi influence in Saudi Arabia, however, remained tangible in the physical conformity in dress, in public deportment, and in public prayer. Most significantly, the Wahhabi legacy was manifest in the social ethos that presumed government responsibility for the collective moral ordering of society, from the behavior of individuals, to institutions, to businesses, to the government itself. Saudi Arabia is also engaged in funding Muslim extremists around the Muslim World [the funding of Jammat-e-Islam of Bangladesh is an example - which not only opposed but also engaged in the organized killings of hundreds and thousands of innocent Muslims and destroying properties during the liberation war of Bangladesh].

Now let us take an account of what the Wahhabis, now-a-days in Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar are practicing. According to recently published Wikileaks report - in Saudi Arabia, the government of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi royal family has been subject over many years to frequent allegations of extensive and systemic corruption originating, in part, from a lack of distinction between the personal interests and wealth of the royal family and that of the Saudi state.

Saudi King Abdullah has repeatedly urged the U.S. to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. In one diplomatic cable, King Abdullah said it was necessary to "cut the head of the snake", in reference to Iran's nuclear program.

In Jeddah, despite the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) — the religious police of Saudi Arabia, there is an ongoing underground nightlife, which includes "the full range of worldly temptations and vices" i.e., "alcohol, drugs, sex " and "working girls" (prostitutes). Even though these parties are in complete violation of CPVPV's laws, the mutaween of CPVPV are afraid to raid these parties, since these parties are hosted by the young princes of al-Saud, the monarchic ruling house of Saudi Arabia.

The Economist summarized cable descriptions of "exclusive parties" in Saudi Arabia, stating, "An American official in Saudi Arabia describes un-Islamic mores at a clandestine Halloween party, hosted by a royal prince. Alcohol and prostitutes abounded at the event, attended by 150-plus Saudis. The host's status kept the fearsome religious police away. Such parties, the writer concluded, were increasingly typical in the kingdom."

Not only that, theses rulers also use double standards in recruiting manpower. If one possesses a passport of a developed Christian country he, in some cases, is paid more than double the salary than one who possesses passport of a developing [Muslim] country for the same job. Moreover, if one travels to these countries with a passport from developing countries, he is considered a suspect. But if one travels with a passport from developing countries, he is considered immune of all things. What discrimination by these Muslim rulers?

According to a May 2009 cable, the "Saudi regulatory system offers the al-Saud regime a means to manipulate the nation's media to promote its own agenda," and criticism of the al-Saud regime is not tolerated at all. All major media outlets in Saudi Arabia — newspapers, such as Al-Watan, Al-Hayat, and Asharq Al-Awsat, and free-to-view television networks, such as MBC Group and Rotana — are owned and controlled by the al-Saud regime, and accordingly self-censorship is the order of the day — which is "motivated by profit and politics". The pro-western ideologies in these newspapers and American programming — such as Friends, Desperate Housewives, Late Night with David Letterman and Hollywood films — are seen as an antidote to extremist religious thoughts in the recruitment of terrorists, especially young teenagers, because of the demographic target groups of these programs.

Leaders of the Muslim countries in the Middle East along with Saudi Arabia and Egypt are all liars. They tell the Americans something but hide it (for fear of public loath) from their countrymen. Israel, the enemy of the Muslim Ummah, which in its possession hundreds of nuclear overheads, is not considered enemy by these rulers. They target Iran as their enemy as it stands against the Israeli aggression of the Palestinian lands. These leaders are nothing but Munafiquns (hypocrites).

On the other hand, Saudi Arabia, the members of the royal family are found to drink alcohols, engaged in fornication while the public are stoned to death or their heads cut off for similar offense. A member of the Saudi royal family Saud bin Abdul Aziz bin Nasir al Saud had been sentenced to life imprisonment for homosexuality and murder. Now readers, think of the so called Muslim Kings, Princes and rulers of the royal families, what kind of Muslims they are. May Allah (swt)'s wrath be on them and save the people of those countries from the evil clutch of these hypocrites?

Osama bin Laden should initiate Jihad against these tyrant monarchs to free Islam and the Muslims of these countries form the clutch of these hypocrite rulers rather than blaming and targeting the Christian World.
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Dr. Sultan Ahmad: Former Professor and Dean of Science, Chittagong University; and also former Professor and Dean of Faculties, East West University, Bangladesh
 


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[ALOCHONA] Few Brilliant Success Stories of the Superb Digital Govt in 2010



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