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Friday, October 5, 2012

[mukto-mona] Abu Hamza among five terror suspects extradited to USA



English finally lost their patience with this bigot. He got a good life in England and yet, that was not good enough for him to contain his hatred for the west and its way of life. What would you do with these people?
-SD 
 
"All great truths begin as blasphemies." GBS 

The Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19853903

Abu Hamza among five terror suspects extradited to USA

Police convoy en route to Suffolk A police convoy transports the terror suspects from Long Lartin prison to RAF Mildenhall
Five terror suspects, including the radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, have flown out of the UK on a jet bound for the United States.
Officers from Scotland Yard's extradition unit handed the men to US marshals at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk.
A police convoy brought the suspects from Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire to Suffolk at 19:15 BST.
High Court judges earlier dismissed the men's final appeal against extradition to the US to face terror charges.
They said the five men, Abu Hamza, Babar Ahmad, Syed Talha Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled al-Fawwaz, did not show "new and compelling" reasons to stay in the UK.
A Home Office spokesman said the government was "working to extradite these men as quickly as possible".
The BBC understands a US Department of Justice-owned Gulfstream jet has been on the tarmac at the base since Tuesday, having flown in from Washington.
A second civilian plane, a Dassault Falcon 900, flew into the airbase in the early hours of Friday morning from Westchester County in New York state.
The High Court ruling on Friday afternoon brought to an end a long-running legal battle. The men's extradition requests were submitted between 1998 and 2006, between eight and 14 years ago.
The suspects final appeal came after the European Court of Human Rights agreed with successive UK courts, that they should face extradition.
Judges Sir John Thomas and Mr Justice Ousley said in their ruling that there was an "overwhelming public interest in the functioning of the extradition system" and that there was "no appeal from our decision".
Sir John added that there was little doubt each man had, over the years, "either taken or had the opportunity to take every conceivable point to prevent his extradition to the United States".
Their written ruling, read out in court, concluded that "each of the claimants' applications for permission to apply for judicial review or for a reopening of the statutory appeals be dismissed".


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[mukto-mona] Buddhists brace for a backlash



Are we going to put up with such kind of pogrom in Bangladesh or show the villains that they might be shot point-blank if they dare to attack again innocent citizens. If minorities are to be subjected to such treatment by local thugs and Islamists, there be an international price to pay down the road. 

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Buddhists brace for a backlash

Indiscreet probes to find out attackers pose new trouble to the community

Buddhists, whose homes were torched a week ago by a mob, are now living in tents in appalling conditions. The weather over the last week has not helped either. The photo was taken from Merong Loa in Ramu of Cox's Bazar.Photo: STAR

After the irreparable loss of Buddhist heritage in last week's mayhem, the people of Ramu now fear damage of community relations as time has come to disclose the names of local instigators and perpetrators.

Several government probe teams are working to unearth the names of masterminds behind the gruesome attacks on Buddhist temples and houses. They are taking statements of witnesses.

The witnesses, local attackers and victims have been living together for generations irrespective of religious belief. But now, mistrust and suspicion will reign in their neighbourhoods, locals apprehend.

The way the government bodies are conducting probes, it will not be a secret who is testifying against whom. This places the witnesses in a dilemma, they added.

An investigator from the police told The Daily Star that most of the Buddhists are scared to disclose the names of the locals whom they saw among the miscreants on the night of September 29.

A sense of insecurity is increasing among the Buddhists as some of them have already been warned by Muslim neighbours not to disclose the names.

Santosh Barua, a former member of Fatekharkul union, gave a statement to the investigators Thursday morning.

He mentioned some names of Muslim neighbours who incited and helped others to carry out arson and vandalism.

After giving the statement, while talking to this correspondent, he received a phone call.

After the conversation, Santosh told this correspondent, "He [the Caller] was threatening me that the consequences would not be good if I do not withdraw his brother's name from my statement."

"I will never withdraw the names as I saw them how they instigated people," he added. "That night I saw who came forward to help us and who provoked the attackers."

He said many local participants of anti-Buddhist processions are now claiming they were not there or they were there to prevent the demonstrators from destroying Buddhist establishments.

All are not as bold as Santosh. Many Buddhists of Ramu told The Daily Star that they were in fear of further attacks and losses.

"Some of us have been receiving messages from our well-wishers to take care as we are helping the investigation to the displeasure of neighbours," said a Buddhist teacher preferring anonymity.

Yesterday afternoon, a former minister went to visit the ruins of century-old Sima Bihar. He talked to Buddhist victims in the open and wanted to know about the rioters.

A local leader told him that nobody would speak the truth in front of others.



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