Mr. Able Danger
2005-08-18 01:58:36 UTC
More subhuman behavior.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/18/wbombs18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/18/ixnewstop.html
Boy dies as terrorists unleash wave of 200 bombs across Bangladesh
By Peter Foster, South Asia Correspondent
(Filed: 18/08/2005)
Suspected Islamic extremists detonated more than 200 small bombs across
Bangladesh yesterday, killing two people and spreading fear and panic.
The attacks were blamed on an outlawed Islamic group, the
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, after several of their leaflets were found at the
bomb sites.
Since the scattering of Afghanistan's Taliban in 2001, western
diplomats have been increasingly concerned that Bangladesh is becoming
a safe haven for al-Qa'eda and its sympathisers.
The bombs, some no larger than fire crackers, exploded at hotels,
courts, government ministries and markets between 10.30 and 11.30 in
the morning. In the capital, Dhaka, devices exploded outside the
Sheraton Hotel, the diplomatic enclave and the international airport.
Local reports said that more than 100 people were taken to hospital for
treatment for minor injuries. A 10-year-old boy and a rickshaw driver
died.
The leaflets found at the scene of the blasts said they were a "third
call" to establish Islamic rule and threatened "counter-action" if
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen's members were arrested or persecuted.
They also warned Britain and America against the occupation of Muslim
lands: "It is also to warn Bush and Blair to vacate Muslim countries,
or to face Muslim upsurge." Bangladesh, the world's third-most populous
Muslim country, has a long history of political violence but until
recently has rejected allegations from India and the West that it was
also fertile ground for Islamic terrorism.
Earlier this year, under pressure from the US, its secular government
banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and the Jagrata Muslim Janata.
In May last year, the British High Commissioner in Bangladesh was
injured in a grenade explosion at a Muslim shrine in the north-eastern
town of Sylhet, where many British Bangladeshis have their origins.
The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the main opposition
Awami League condemned the attacks.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/18/wbombs18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/18/ixnewstop.html
Boy dies as terrorists unleash wave of 200 bombs across Bangladesh
By Peter Foster, South Asia Correspondent
(Filed: 18/08/2005)
Suspected Islamic extremists detonated more than 200 small bombs across
Bangladesh yesterday, killing two people and spreading fear and panic.
The attacks were blamed on an outlawed Islamic group, the
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, after several of their leaflets were found at the
bomb sites.
Since the scattering of Afghanistan's Taliban in 2001, western
diplomats have been increasingly concerned that Bangladesh is becoming
a safe haven for al-Qa'eda and its sympathisers.
The bombs, some no larger than fire crackers, exploded at hotels,
courts, government ministries and markets between 10.30 and 11.30 in
the morning. In the capital, Dhaka, devices exploded outside the
Sheraton Hotel, the diplomatic enclave and the international airport.
Local reports said that more than 100 people were taken to hospital for
treatment for minor injuries. A 10-year-old boy and a rickshaw driver
died.
The leaflets found at the scene of the blasts said they were a "third
call" to establish Islamic rule and threatened "counter-action" if
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen's members were arrested or persecuted.
They also warned Britain and America against the occupation of Muslim
lands: "It is also to warn Bush and Blair to vacate Muslim countries,
or to face Muslim upsurge." Bangladesh, the world's third-most populous
Muslim country, has a long history of political violence but until
recently has rejected allegations from India and the West that it was
also fertile ground for Islamic terrorism.
Earlier this year, under pressure from the US, its secular government
banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and the Jagrata Muslim Janata.
In May last year, the British High Commissioner in Bangladesh was
injured in a grenade explosion at a Muslim shrine in the north-eastern
town of Sylhet, where many British Bangladeshis have their origins.
The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the main opposition
Awami League condemned the attacks.