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RE: [ALOCHONA] Please do not send money to anyone.



thanks...for timely notification.


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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 08:10:51 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Please do not send money to anyone.



 
Please do not send money to anyone. Somebody got access to my office e-mail and writing to my contacts for money.
 
THIS IS A HOAX.
 
Thank you.
 
Dr. Mohsin Ali.

 

 
 

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--- On Tue, 5/24/11, Mohsin Ali <baarnyinc@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mohsin Ali <baarnyinc@yahoo.com>
Subject: Hi
To:
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 7:46 AM

Hope you get this on time, I made a trip to Aberdeen, Scotland and had my bag stolen from me with my passport and credit cards in it. The embassy is willing to help by letting me fly without my passport, I just have to pay for a ticket and settle Hotel bills. Unfortunately for me, I can't have access to funds without my credit card, I've made contact with my bank but they need more time to come up with a new one. I was thinking of asking you to lend me some quick funds that I can give back as soon as I get in. I really need to be on the next available flight.
 
I can forward you details on how you can get the funds to me. You can reach me via email or on Blue Island hotel front desk phone, the numbers are, +447031804805 or +447031804806.

I await your response....

Mohsin Ali




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[ALOCHONA] Does America have a Culture?



Does America have a Culture?



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[ALOCHONA] The Last Word On Osama bin Laden



The Last Word On Osama bin Laden

James Corbett

Osama bin Laden was one of the 54 children of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a construction magnate who made his fortune by cozening up to the royal family of Saudi Arabia. The bin Laden family has had an intimate relationship with the upper reaches of global power politics for the past half a century.

In 1976 Salem bin Laden, Osama's half-brother, co-founded Arbusto Energy with George W. Bush.In 1996, after the bombing of the Khobar Towers for which Osama took credit, the Saudi Binladen Group was given the contract to rebuild the facility (see article on page 14).

Also in 1996, FBI agents in the Washington field office were investigating the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, a suspected terrorist organization that included Abdullah bin Laden, the group's president and treasurer, and Omar bin Laden. BBC News uncovered internal FBI documents showing how the agents were ordered to stop their investigation. The case was only reopened the week after 9/11 and the day after both brothers fled the US with FBI permission.

In 1998, another FBI investigation into the bin Laden brothers, this one initated by the New York field office, was called off by the State Department because, it was revealed, the bin Laden family had been granted Saudi diplomatic passports in 1996 and thus had diplomatic immunity inside the United States.

On the morning of 9/11, Osama bin Laden's half-brother, Shafig bin Laden, was the guest of honour at a meeting of the Carlyle Group in Washington which George H.W. Bush was also addressing.

In the days after 9/11, two dozen members of the Bin Laden family and over 100 members of the Saudi royal family were flown to assembly points in Texas and Washington and then flown out of the country. At least one of these flights took place during the total ban on civilian air traffic over North American airspace. Declassified FBI documents show that the Bureau believed the bin Laden family flight out of the country—carrying suspected terrorists Abdullah and Omar bin Laden—was chartered by Osama bin Laden himself, but some of the passengers, including Abdullah, were not even interviewed in person by the FBI before their departure.

Of course, for the purveyors of the official conspiracy theory of Al-Qaeda, none of this has any relevance because the Saudi Binladin Group, the family business conglomerate, issued a terse, two-sentence statement in April of 1994 publicly disowning Osama. The facts, however, indicate that this public disowning was in fact a ruse.

In 2004, Osama's half-brother Yeslam Binladin admitted that the family shared a joint Swiss bank account with Osama. The account was not closed until 1997, the year after the Khobar Towers bombing.

Yeslam's ex-wife, Carmen, has also stated that she "cannot believe" that the family "have cut off Osama completely," as have Vincent Cannistraro, the former head of the CIA Counter Terrorism Center, Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA bin Laden unit, and the French intelligence service, which released a report two days after 9/11 indicating they believed the bin Laden family to be covertly aiding Osama.

Nonetheless, the question remains: do the bin Laden family connections to the highest circles of power in the American political establishment have any relevance to the story of Osama bin Laden? Is there any evidence that American intelligence was involved with Osama himself over the years?

During Operation Cyclone, the US government funded the Afghan mujahedeen in their struggle against the Soviets in the largest covert operation in CIA history to that time. An estimated $5 billion in arms and funding were supplied to the jihadis, including stinger anti-aircraft missiles and other equipment that kept the Soviet Red Army bogged down in the country for years.

Officially, the CIA's contact was limited to the Afghans themselves, and no funding was given to the so-called Arab Afghans like Osama bin Laden, the Muslims from the Arab world who came to Afghanistan to aid in their fight against the Soviets. In reality, however, CIA funds were being funnelled to the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence service that distributed those funds to the Arab Afghans through an organization called MAK, or the Bureau of Services. Osama bin Laden was the one in charge of MAK's finances.

This much was admitted by Osama's brother Salem in 1985, who confessed that Osama was "the liaison between the US, the Saudi government and the Afghan rebels" at the time. In 1986, Salem asked the Pentagon for anti-aircraft missiles on Osama's behalf.

The former chief of the US visa bureau in Jeddah, Michael Springmann, has testified that during his time there, he was respeatedly ordered by CIA officials to approve visas for bin Laden's mujahedeen cohorts so that they could be provided training at US military bases. 11 of the 19 alleged 9/11 hijackers would go on to get their visas from the same consulate.

FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has admitted that in her time at the FBI she saw proof that the US had maintained a "very intimate relationship" with bin Laden all the way though the 1990s up to September 11th.

The Guardian reported that Osama had travelled to the American Hospital in Dubai for kidney dialysis treatment in June 2001. While there, he was visited by the local CIA station chief. When the CIA official later boasted about having met Osama bin Laden, he was promptly recalled to Washington.

In a July 2005 article in the Guardian, Robin Cook, the former speaker of the House of Commons, asserted that the name Al Qaeda itself actually referred to the database containing CIA assets from the Afghan mujahedeen struggle.

Even Osama's alleged responsibility for the 9/11 events has been repeatedly called into question.
In the weeks after the attack, the Taliban offered to hand bin Laden over if the US provided proof that he was connected to 9/11. Bush turned the offer down. After the invasion of Afghanistan began in October, the Taliban again tried to hand him over, this time dropping the request for proof of bin Laden's guilt. Bush again refused.

After video of what the Pentagon alleged was Osama bin Laden confessing to the 9/11 attacks emerged in December 2001, a German national news program conducted its own investigation into the tape. According to its own, independent translators, every single point in the video that the Pentagon alleges indicate Osama's foreknowledge or complicity in the 9/11 attack has been mistranslated, and the video does not in fact provide any proof of confession.

Famously, FBI spokesman Rex Tomb told investigative journalist Ed Haas that the FBI did not include 9/11 on bin Laden's "most wanted" profile because there was no hard evidence connecting him to the crime.

And yet within the first minute of TV coverage of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center on 9/11, Osama bin Laden was named as the likely perpetrator of the event. This idea solidified into a near certainty within hours, and the 24/7 news coverage shifted almost immediately to the question of when the US would invade Afghanistan.

In an interview the day after 9/11, confronted with this tendency of the press to jump to conclusions about Osama bin Laden, ex-CIA station chief Milt Bearden made some unexpected statements about the supposed terrorist mastermind.

And now, in May of 2011, after Osama bin Laden has been allegedly tracked down and allegedly shot by a Navy Seal team, after a trillion dollars and two wars have been waged in the name of fighting his shadowy, non-existent terror organization, as the very fabric of our society itself has been torn asunder in the neverending hunt for the terrorist bogeyman under our collective bed, perhaps it is time to ask once again what Osama bin Laden means to us, after all.

If one were to base their understanding of Osama bin Laden solely on mainstream media coverage of him over the last 10 years, a very different picture would emerge to the one that you have just been presented.This media-constructed image would be one of a radical Muslim who appeared out of nowhere in the 1990s to begin a string of increasingly devastating terror attacks on American targets. After masterminding the 9/11 attacks in some undefined manner from a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, he supposedly outwitted and outmanoeuvred the combined might of the most powerful military and the most technologically sophisticated intelligence dragnet in the history of the world for an entire decade, all the while releasing videos and audiotapes from his secret compound to taunt his would-be captors. Finally, we are told, he was tracked down and shot in a special forces raid during which live video transmissions were inexplicably unavailable and then buried at sea before his death could be confirmed by any independent third party.

What emerges from the official Osama bin Laden story is not a person but a comic book villain, a faceless, mysterious, motivationless embodiment of "terrorism" with all the reality of a Lex Luther or Cobra Commander. His is a powerful myth, made all the more powerful because it has been constructed and promoted by the very politicians and string-pullers who claim to be opposing him.

Like Orwell's Emmanuel Goldstein, his face can be put before the public from time to time to produce the Two Minute Hate, a cathartic projection of anger upon an empty image. We know to hiss when his picture is dangled before us and cheer when we are told he is dead. But always, always, it is stressed that he is fearsome, that he is ruthless, and that the only way to stop him is to surrender our rights and freedoms. Even in death, we are told, he and the mythical army of devotees he supposedly ruled over, are a clear and present danger to our society necessitating the continuation of the neverending wars against abstract nouns, TSA agents groping children at the airports and extra-judicial no-fly lists that are turning in to no-ride lists and no-buy lists.

The only thing we can say for certain is that the Osama bin Laden character has now been disposed of in a far-fetched burial story only fitting of his cartoonish myth. And now the public is already being prepared for his replacement myths, a gaggle of similarly cartoonish characters no less connected to the Western intelligence establishment than Osama himself.

But after finally waking from the 10-year nightmare of the Osama bin Laden fable, are the public willing to go straight back to sleep? Or are they going to start questioning the official narratives that are cemented into place in the wake of every large-scale event, narratives that always support more government intrusion in our lives, expanded wars of aggression around the globe and an ever-expanding police state?

It's an important question, and one that must be answered quickly, while the public is still wary and skeptical of a government that has lied to them time and time again and then refuses to provide that public with a single credible shred of proof that the largest manhunt in the history of America has ended with the disposal of this intelligence asset, Osama bin Laden.

For if the public does choose to go back to sleep and dismiss the copious documentary evidence that the entire war on terror is a fraud being perpetrated by the same people who claim to be fighting the terrorists, we may never be able to awake from whatever nightmare they have planned for us next.

James Corbett is an independent journalist who has been living and working in Japan since 2004. He has been writing and producing The Corbett Report, an online multi-media news and information source, since 2007. His forthcoming book, Reportage: Essays on the New World Order, will be available for purchase in early 2011.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/last-word-on-osama-bin-laden.html



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[ALOCHONA] Economist accuses India of censorship over Kashmir map



Economist accuses India of censorship over Kashmir map

Indian reads censored version of Economist magazine

The magazine says India is more intolerant of the issue than China or Pakistan

The Economist magazine has accused India of hostile censorship after being forced by the country's authorities to cover up a map in its latest edition.India says the map, which depicts the disputed area of Kashmir, is incorrect because it shows the region as divided between Pakistan, India and China.

Kashmir is claimed by both India and Pakistan in its entirety but has been divided since 1948.It has been the cause of two wars between them.

Nearly 30,000 copies of the latest edition of The Economist are being distributed in India with a blank white sticker placed over a map of Kashmir.The map was to be used to illustrate a cover story on the border between India and Pakistan which it describes as the world's "most dangerous".Indian officials forced the magazine to take the step because the map did not show all of Kashmir as being part of India.

The Economist says it was merely reflecting the current effective border, adding that India is more intolerant on the issue than either Pakistan or China.Indian readers, it said, could face the political reality of the situation on the ground unlike its government.The authorities in India routinely target the international media, including the BBC, on the issue of Kashmir's borders if the media do not reflect India's claims.

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[ALOCHONA] Rajuk now says DAP for future projects



Rajuk now says DAP for future projects

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha has stressed the need for following the detailed area plan in the case of future projects without saying anything about restoring the original shapes to areas which have already been changed by developers.

The detailed area plan, the final component of Dhaka city's master plan gazetted in June 2010, has recommended reclamation of some of the areas the present land use of which are different from what has been laid out in the detailed area plan.Rajuk will need to reclaim more than 2,500 acres of flood flow and agricultural zones now occupied by real estate companies and relocate 2,724 industries for DAP implementation.

The implementation of the detailed area plan will also require construction of roads, lanes and by-lanes besides widening of the existing roads in keeping with Strategic Transport Plan recommendations as incorporated into the detailed area  plan.

Rajuk on Monday held a meeting with the representatives of 14 government and non-government utility agencies to work out plan for the implementation of the detailed area plane in a coordinated manner.

The agencies which sent representatives to the meeting included the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority, Dhaka Transport Coordination Board, environment department, Dhaka Power Distribution Company, Dhaka Electric Supply Company, Titas, Dhaka Metropolitan Police and the Dhaka City Corporation.

The Rajuk chair, Nurul Huda, at the meeting asked the representatives to go by the detailed area plan in giving certificates to clients.Rajuk also asked the representatives to check Rajuk's land use approval certificate before giving the clients their approval.'We have urged the government, non-government and autonomous utility agencies to go by the detailed area plan,' Nurul Huda told New Age.'We have given copies of Dhaka to the representations so that they can from now on take action in accordance with the master plan,' Huda said.

Soon after the DAP had been gazetted, Rajuk announced to prepare an action plan to implement the detailed area plan. But the city development authorities till now has not prepared the action plan as Rajuk is waiting for the recommendations of an inter-ministerial committee set up for DAP implementation.

Housing and public works ministry officials said that the inter-ministerial committee composed of ministers and secretaries of the seven ministries concerned, could make no progress in this regard. Asked about the action plan, the Rajuk chief said, 'We have failed to work out the action plan as we have not received the recommendations of the inter-ministerial committee.'  

'The inter-ministerial committee is now reviewing applications and it will later make its recommendations,' the Rajuk chair said.

Sources said the committee had received 50–60 applications from some big and influential real estate companies and land developers where they sought that their projects could not be hampered in the process of the implementation of the detailed area plan.

Asked whether land developers or real estate companies who have already developed land in the flood flow, sub-flood flow and agricultural zone for different purposes will go scot-free as Rajuk is concerned about only the future projects, the Rajuk chair said, 'I have nothing to do in this regard but to wait for the recommendations of the inter-ministerial committee.'

'We will work out the action plan in keeping with the detailed area plan as soon as we receive the clearance from the inter-ministerial committee,' he said.

Out of DAP's total area of jurisdiction of 590 square miles, 33.35 per cent of the areas have been kept for urban and rural residential and mixed purposes which are expected to house 18.53 million people by 2015.Besides, 32.18 per cent of the areas have been preserved as flood flow zones, water retention and water bodies.

Major private real estate housing projects that stand to be cancelled with the implementation of the detailed area plan include Madhumati Model Town and Eastern Mayakanan at Bilamalia, Advanced Angel City at Dakkhin Ramchandrapur, Ashulia Model Town at Uttara Duttapara and Bashundhara River View Project at Keraniganj.

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[ALOCHONA] 7 AL MPs



7  AL  MPs



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[ALOCHONA] Chinese Ultimatum Warns Washington Against Attack



US, Pakistan Near Open War

Chinese Ultimatum Warns Washington Against Attack

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.

China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington's planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing. This blunt warning represents the first known strategic ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to Soviet warnings during the Berlin crisis of 1958-1961, and indicates the grave danger of general war growing out of the US-Pakistan confrontation.

"Any Attack on Pakistan Would be Construed as an Attack on China"

Responding to reports that China has asked the US to respect Pakistan's sovereignty in the aftermath of the Bin Laden operation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu used a May 19 press briefing to state Beijing's categorical demand that the "sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan must be respected." According to Pakistani diplomatic sources cited by the Times of India, China has "warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China." This ultimatum was reportedly delivered at the May 9 China-US strategic dialogue and economic talks in Washington, where the Chinese delegation was led by Vice Prime Minister Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo.1 Chinese warnings are implicitly backed up by that nation's nuclear missiles, including an estimated 66 ICBMs, some capable of striking the United States, plus 118 intermediate-range missiles, 36 submarine-launched missiles, and numerous shorter-range systems.

Support from China is seen by regional observers as critically important for Pakistan, which is otherwise caught in a pincers between the US and India: "If US and Indian pressure continues, Pakistan can say 'China is behind us. Don't think we are isolated, we have a potential superpower with us,'" Talat Masood, a political analyst and retired Pakistani general, told AFP.2

The Chinese ultimatum came during the visit of Pakistani Prime Minister Gilani in Beijing, during which the host government announced the transfer of 50 state-of-the-art JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, immediately and without cost.3 Before his departure, Gilani had stressed the importance of the Pakistan-China alliance, proclaiming: "We are proud to have China as our best and most trusted friend. And China will always find Pakistan standing beside it at all times….When we speak of this friendship as being taller than the Himalayas and deeper than the oceans it truly captures the essence of our relationship."4 These remarks were greeted by whining from US spokesmen, including Idaho Republican Senator Risch.

The simmering strategic crisis between the United States and Pakistan exploded with full force on May 1, with the unilateral and unauthorized US commando raid alleged to have killed the phantomatic Osama bin Laden in a compound at Abottabad, a flagrant violation of Pakistan's national sovereignty. The timing of this military stunt designed to inflame tensions between the two countries had nothing to do with any alleged Global War on Terror, and everything to do with the late March visit to Pakistan of Prince Bandar, the Saudi Arabian National Security Council chief. This visit had resulted in a de facto alliance between Islamabad and Riyadh, with Pakistan promising troops to put down any US-backed color revolution in the kingdom, while extending nuclear protection to the Saudis, thus making them less vulnerable to US extortion threats to abandon the oil-rich monarchy to the tender mercies of Tehran. A joint move by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to break out of the US empire, whatever one may think of these regimes, would represent a fatal blow for the fading US empire in South Asia.

As for the US claims concerning the supposed Bin Laden raid of May 1, they are a mass of hopeless contradictions which changes from day to day. An analysis of this story is best left to literary critics and writers of theatrical reviews. The only solid and uncontestable fact which emerges is that Pakistan is the leading US target — thus intensifying the anti-Pakistan US policy which has been in place since Obama's infamous December 2009 West Point speech.

http://tarpley.net/2011/05/21/us-pakistan-near-open-war-chinese-ultimatum-warns-washington-against-attack/




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[ALOCHONA] Mujib's confusion on Bangladeshi deaths



Mujib's confusion on Bangladeshi deaths

The Guardian, Tuesday 24 May 2011

Ian Jack (21 May) mentions the controversy about death figures in Bangladesh's liberation war. On 8 January 1972 I was the first Bangladeshi to meet independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after his release from Pakistan. He was brought from Heathrow to Claridge's by the Indian high commissioner Apa Bhai Panth, and I arrived there almost immediately.

Mujib was puzzled to be addressed as "your excellency" by Mr Panth. He was surprised, almost shocked, when I explained to him that Bangladesh had been liberated and he was elected president in his absence. Apparently he arrived in London under the impression that East Pakistanis had been granted the full regional autonomy for which he had been campaigning. During the day I and others gave him the full picture of the war. I explained that no accurate figure of the casualties was available but our estimate, based on information from various sources, was that up to "three lakh" (300,000) died in the conflict.

To my surprise and horror he told David Frost later that "three millions of my people" were killed by the Pakistanis. Whether he mistranslated "lakh" as "million" or his confused state of mind was responsible I don't know, but many Bangladeshis still believe a figure of three million is unrealistic and incredible.

Serajur Rahman

Retired deputy head, BBC Bengali Service

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/24/mujib-confusion-on-bangladeshi-deaths




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[ALOCHONA] RE: International Crimes Tribunal



                It is encouraging to see someone showing interest in the ongoing International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka.
 
However, there are some serious misgivings in some of the basic ideas expressed here. I will try to touch upon a few:
 
1.  Only the State, not individuals, can bring charges of War Crimes at a specially set up Tribunal (i.e. not an ordinary criminal court).
      We, the citizens, have been pressing for a trial of the war crimes of 1971 for all these years, yet no 'regime' in power, not even the Awami League led regime in 1996, had been forthcoming until this present Govt.  It should not be forgotten that one of the election campaign promises made in 2008 by the Awami League and its alliance parties was to hold the War Crimes Trial. It really was the people's mandate to hold the War Crimes Tribunal.  I  do not see how any doubt can be expressed about that.
 
             Therefore, I am not sure what  you are doubtful about.  The Tribunal has been set up due to intense pressure from the non-partisan Citizens' Groups.  And, we are already complaining about the lack of Govt. efficiency.  The Govt. funding is not adequate. Nor are there enough legal and experienced professionals manning the Prosecution.  The Jamaatis, on the other hand, are massively armed with expensive Counsels, some hired from abroad.  Talk about "dominant narrative"!  The Defence section of this Tribunal is a spectacle of DOMINANCE!  They are also very clever in spreading lies and rumors.
 
2.   An International War Crimes Tribunal has to abide by certain international Conventions and Treaties to which Bangladesh is a signatory.  The Dhaka Tribunal has been assured of logistical support by the UNDP.
 
       Your feeling that it is "trap" to punish the Opposition -- a ridiculously illogical concept to begin with -- simply flies in the face of reality.  Think of it carefully  -- members of the Opposition were either involved in war crimes of 1971 or not.  Suddenly, after 40 years, one cannot be trapped as a 'war criminal'.  Since the present Tribunal intends to bring to justice only those personnel against whom there had been proven evidence, as symbolic of the massive accounts of atrocities committed during the months of 1971, there can be no logic or basis to the allegations of setting up a trap.
 
3.  Once again, the Tribunal is an entity totally separated from the rest of the country's normal, day-to-day judiciary mechanism.
        You, and all the others should follow the progress of the Tribunal and then give your opinions in a more knowledgeable way.
        For example, here is a latest piece of news:
 
http://www.unbconnect.com/component/news/task-show/id-48496
 
         Hope I have been able to clear certain ideas.  It would be beneficial for all -- on every side of the conflict -- not to form assumptions based on deliberately disseminated misinformation.
 
                 Farida Majid 


To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: msahmed21@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 05:24:27 +0100
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re International Crime Tribunal

 
Undoubtedly, every victims of crime deserves sympathy and  every criminal deserve punishment for the crimes they have committed. Indeed we are in a position to offer our supports and symparhy to the victims of 1971. But unfortunately, none of us are in a position to bring the real criminals to justice.
 
The tribunal that has been set by the regime in power in Bangladesh has so far failed to convince the nation that they are actually trying to bring the real war criminals to justice. Most of none partisan citizens like my self are in doubt about the international crime tribunal and the intention of the government.
 
Many of us feel that the govt has created a trap in the name of international war crime tribunal to punish a group of people they dislike.
 
Since the present government came into power, are we convinced that the judiciary has been functioning independently? There are many verdict given by the HC and SC which are clear evidence of partisanship judgement in favour of the government. Under these circumstances, it is most likely that many innocent people will become victim of the trap that has been created.
 
Unfortunately, our nation is blindly divided into two group, one is AL and the other is BNP. When BNP comes into power, they promote their own judges, Police Officers, Attorney General etc. The same happends when AL comes into power, which is why, it is not going to be a fair trial. In fact, this trial will create a ground for another trial and our vengeance politics will continue. The only option we have to get the internal and international approval of a fair trial if we can hire some international Judges from ICC, The Hague or Nnuremberg.
 
Khoda Hafiz.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




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Re: [ALOCHONA] FW: Danish 'terrorist' fights Indian extradition



 
What a shame for Babr, those trucks got caught.
 
He should have been more powerful and damned the authorities like Mujib's two sons did - they hijacked cars, looted banks, got shot in the foot by a foolish Poilice Officer , "hijacked" young adolescent girls and raped them,and finally the two brothers married two girls whom they JOR KORE UTHAYE NIYE ASCHCHAY at gun point.
 
What a shame the Indian Rajakars to this day BORO GOLAE KOTHA BOLAY.  What a shame, nobody dares to investigate the wealth accumulated by Hasina's son Joy in the United States.


--- On Thu, 5/19/11, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:,

From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] FW: Danish 'terrorist' fights Indian extradition
To:
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 2:35 PM

 
             Fascinating story of gun-running gone wrong! Reminds me of our own Ten-truck of arms haul and the chorer raja Lutfuzzaman Babar with the Brylcreamed hairdo!
 
                 Farida Majid
 

Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:29:13 -0700
Subject: Fw: Danish 'terrorist' fights Indian extradition
To: farida_majid@hotmail.com



"Holck has said the arms were to enable Ananda Marg to protect itself against thugs sent by West Bengal's communist government, with which there was a long-running feud. But last month he told Times Now, an Indian news site, that the true object "was to destabilise the government of West Bengal" so it could be "ruled?directly from Delhi." Confirming Peter Bleach's claims, he said both British and Indian secret services knew about the arms drop long in advance."


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/danish-terrorist-fights-indian-extradition-2286147.html

Danish 'terrorist' fights Indian extradition


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A British spy turned arms dealer who nearly died in an Indian prison told a Copenhagen court yesterday how he was beaten and humiliated while serving a life sentence there.

Giving evidence in the extradition hearing of the Danish "terrorist" who was once his customer, Peter Bleach said he feared the Dane would not survive if forced to stand trial in Kolkata.
India wants Niels Holck, Bleach's former customer, to be tried on terrorism charges dating back to 1995. The Danish government has agreed to the extradition – the first ever to a third world country – but a local Danish court upheld Holck's appeal. Now a five-man bench of the high court is hearing the government's appeal against that decision.
In 1995 Mr Bleach, now 60, went to Copenhagen to meet Niels Holck to clinch a deal to sell him a large consignment of weapons. But his view of the deal changed when he learned that the Dane wanted the weapons delivered to a remote spot in the central Indian countryside. Returning to Britain, Bleach alerted MI5, who told him to go ahead.
He procured an ancient Antonov plane to carry the consignment of Kalashnikovs and other weapons plus ammunition. His intention was to conclude the deal and return home, but Holck refused to let him go, fearing he would betray him.
In late December 1995, the decrepit Russian plane full of munitions sat for days on the tarmac at Karachi airport, then flew across one of the world's tensest borders into India and landed at the central Indian city of Varanasi.
There the arms were loaded onto pallets which were attached to parachutes. Once the airport's radar had been conveniently turned off it set off on the last leg of the journey. But for pilot error – the drop was made from 300 metres instead of 300 feet – the delivery would probably have gone off without a hitch, and Bleach and Holck would have returned home safe and sound.
The intended destination was Ananda Marg, a utopian community founded in Bihar in 1955. It calls itself an organisation of sannyasin – monks and nuns – who dedicate their lives to meditation and social service, and it has branches around the world. Holck claims to have done social service for the organisation for years. But unlike other such organisations, the monks are prepared to take up arms.
Both Bleach and Holck were in the plane when the arms were dropped – but when the Indian authorities caught up with them at Bombay's airport days later and Bleach and the airplane's crew were arrested, Holck was spirited out of the country.
Bleach and the rest were eventually convicted in Kolkata of waging war against India and sentenced to life. Now the Indian authorities want the man described as the mastermind of the crime to stand trial.
But yesterday Bleach, who contracted TB in Kolkata's squalid jail before being pardoned under pressure from Britain, told the Copenhagen court that he doubted Holck would survive. "The way the Indian press is talking about him is equivalent to the way the US press talked about Osama bin Laden," he said.
Holck has said the arms were to enable Ananda Marg to protect itself against thugs sent by West Bengal's communist government, with which there was a long-running feud. But last month he told Times Now, an Indian news site, that the true object "was to destabilise the government of West Bengal" so it could be "ruled?directly from Delhi." Confirming Peter Bleach's claims, he said both British and Indian secret services knew about the arms drop long in advance.
In an interview with The Independent last year, Mr Bleach said "A lot of people close to the summit of Indian government and intelligence would have to have signed off on the arms drop plan for it to go ahead?If Holck is extradited to India, he won't last a week. They would probably kill him in jail."








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