Bangladesh and the criminal-”jihadi” nexus
I came across this rather worrying bit of news a few weeks ago but missed posting it until today:
“CBI gets Dhaka’s most wanted list”
“…KOLKATA: Interpol has intimated the CBI about a list of as many as 23 notorious Bangladeshi criminals……According to intelligence reports, more than 20 other wanted criminals have sought shelter in India…CID officers admitted that criminals from across the border had found shelter in West Bengal and were maintaining links with elements in their own country. They even arrested eight of them, including Joy and Harris Ahmed, kingpin of the dreaded ‘Harris Bahini’ of Dhaka.
…Many of these dons have started their own business in West Bengal and are now owners of bheris or transport companies.”
Just ten days aftert the news report above (dt. 12th June ’07), the Mumbai Mirror (dt 22nd June 07, Pg 14) reported that “Harris Ahmed was arrested by CID’s special oepration group in North 24-Parganas, on the fringes of Kolkata. He was wanted for at least 40 murders and dozens of extortion cases in Bangaldesh. Interpol had issued a red corner notice against him..”
Amazingly, “Posing as an Indian, Harris Ahmed ran a garment business and had a ration and a PAN card.” !!
What worried me was not just the fact that some of “most wanted” criminals from Bangladesh found shelter in this country…but the real possibility – I would say almost a certainty that some – or most – of these people were involved in drugs smuggling, arms smuggling and illegal immigration from across the border.
And if that is not worrying enough, do not forget that there is increasing evidence of terrorist elements within India now collaborating very actively with various groups and outfits in Bangladesh who share a similar “jihadi” ideology.
For example, see “RDX imported from Bangladesh?” which mentioned that an analysis of the bombs found in Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad revealed ”The explosive material, RDX and TNT, are not available in India and were imported from Bangladesh.”
In addition, ”…The SIM card on the cellphone attached to these bombs was purchased in Kolkata”.
Very worrying.
For more on terrorism ISI and the link to Bangaldesh, please read: ULFA, ISI and Terrorism
See also: Assam: The Bangla hand, a very well-researched article by Shri Maloy Krishna Dhar, former joint director, IB and author of Open Secrets and Fulcrum of Evil-ISI, CIA, Al Qaeda Nexus.
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Dames and Gents, Namaste!
I am The American who sojourned all the way to Darjeeling, to take a bus and a rickshaw to the sleepy mountain kingdom of Sikkim, Gangtok that is, to The University, to meet the Lama and discuss becoming a monk during the Persian Gulf War. I am told the monks still talk about me. And I remember seeing Kanjanjunga, every morning when I woke up, silhouetted perfectly in the window, changing every moment as the sun shifted in the sky, sometimes snow billowing from the summit from the wind.
In my country presently, we are experiencing excruciating birth pangs, pained to be delivered. I wish to share with you some of my experiences, as you, India, have shared yours with me, in the hopes that we may preserve that which truly makes us Civilized.
In times unprecedented and tinged with despair, it is appropriate to reflect on the founding of my great nation. It was not with George Washington, but with Brutus, and not the one who killed Caeser. There was another who rebelled against the tyrant monarchy of Rome, The Tarquins. He wrote the Roman Constitution that would stand for 500 years. His sons sided with the monarchy. The monarchy lost. So to punish his sons and found a perfect union, he immolated his own sons. Machiavelli speaks fluently and voluminoulsy and voiciferously on this subject, in The Discourses, and yet is proved wrong on several counts by the miracle of America.
He says that a nation founded in servitude, as America was a colony, will never win its freedom. He also says that a nation founded on fertile soil that is easily defended, will in time loose all of its freedoms because it will become, eventually, inevitably, sloth and sated, and will forget to protect them.
May The Republic stand forever and bring the Glory of The World, with Dignity, into Its Treasury.
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