Dear Readers,
Salam / good afternoon. Would you please allow me to say:
I am proud as a "Bangladeshi origin U.S. Citizen" to see that America has partnered with Bangladesh (with the Bangladesh National Police) and providing the best training to our police force. With all the peace loving Bangladeshi people, I request the American Government to please continue and enhance this (and other) partnering efforts for combating terrorism, preventing Bangladesh from becoming another Taliban State, and safeguarding the hard-earned freedom of Bangladesh. Amen.
With best regards,
Em Pannah (a.k.a. Muktijodha Emarat Hossain Pannah)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Em Pannah
Doctor of Management (Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Identity Theft), MS, MSc., CISSP, CAP, CISM, NSA-IAM, NSA-IEM, Foundations of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Professional, Textbook Writer/Publisher, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in USA
Primary email: epannah@yahoo.com | Secondary email: em.pannah@faculty.umuc.edu
Primary phone: (443) 690-3955 | Secondary phone: (301) 358-9232
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Primary email: epannah@yahoo.com | Secondary email: em.pannah@faculty.umuc.edu
Primary phone: (443) 690-3955 | Secondary phone: (301) 358-9232
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REMARKS BY
U.S. AMBASSADOR TO BANGLADESH DAN MOZENA
AT A POLICE LEADER'S ROLE IN COMBATTING TERRORISM
GRADUATION CEREMONY
POLICE STAFF COLLEGE, DHAKA
MAY 16, 2013
Hassan Mahmood Khandker, Inspector General of Police
Md. Nazmul Haque, Rector, Police Staff College
Asalaam 'mlaikum and good morning!
Somewhere …
… maybe nearby …
… maybe in some faraway corner of Bangladesh …
… somewhere …
… others are meeting at this very moment.
We may not see them; we may not know them, but they are there … meeting, planning, plotting …
Their purpose is quite different from yours.
Today, we celebrate your success in improving your skills so you can better protect the wonderful people of this great nation so these citizens can go about their lives in safety, in security, in peace … without fear.
But those others who at this very moment are meeting somewhere in Bangladesh, nearby or faraway …
… these others have a different agenda.
Their goal is to destroy everything that you believe in, everything that makes Bangladesh special.
Rather than sharing our values for peace and harmony, they believe in violence and intolerance.
Rather than upholding individual's right to expression, they seek to suppress.
Rather than building communities and pathways to prosperity, they create barriers and obstructions.
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This is our shared enemy, one which confronts us, all of us around the world who cherish freedom and democracy.
In Bangladesh, you … the very people seated in this room right now … you are the front line in protecting and preserving the Bangladesh that we all love so deeply.
I think the most important lesson of the course that you are now completing is that no one person, no one agency acting alone can effectively protect the nation against the scourge of terrorism, of violent extremism. That was a critical lesson that we in America learned from the September 11, 2001 attack on New York, on Washington, in Pennsylvania. We paid a high price to learn the lesson that to deter, defend against, destroy terrorism and violent extremism, all ministries and agencies of government and civil society and the people themselves must cooperate, must work together, must share information, must utilize the latest technologies and methods, must create a strong, united front … only then can government fulfill its overriding objective: to provide peace and security for all the citizens.
"Change and flexibility" was the theme of this conference. It is a perfect theme. It is the key to breaking down the stovepipes that isolate agencies and ministries; it the key to engaging the government, especially the various law enforcement agencies, with the people, not against them. It is the key to creating the strong, united front against terrorism and violent extremism of which I spoke just a moment ago. "Change and flexibility" is the key to Bangladesh's success in defending and preserving the nation; "change and flexibility" is the key to your success as an individual member of Bangladesh's law enforcement endeavor. For this conference to make a meaningful difference, you, each of you, will need now to adopt, to inculcate "change and flexibility" into how you perform your duties … only then will this two-week course have made a difference in protecting the nation.
I am proud that America has partnered with Bangladesh, with the Bangladesh National Police in making this critically important course available. I applaud each of you for taking fullest advantage of this course to hone your skills, to make yourself a stronger, more effective agent of the law.
Congratulations on your achievement … and good luck as you endeavor now to put these new skills to good work.
Thank you.
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