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...Making matters worse is the continuing uncertainty over the identity of the terrorists. Two days after the attack, a previously unknown group, Hikmatul Zihad, e-mailed a local paper to claim responsibility?and promised to kill Hasina within seven days. Last Friday, Bangladeshi authorities began questioning a man they suspected of sending the e-mail from a cybercaf?, but political analysts are unsure whether he is suspected of being a member of a terrorist group or is just a prankster. As for Hasina, she questions the government's capacity to conduct a proper inquiry and is asking for an international...
...power. Prothom Alo editor Rahman says one of the politicians leading the angry demonstrations against his newspaper is a lawmaker from an Islamic party that is part of the ruling coalition. Former Foreign Minister Hossain remarks: "It is almost an irresistible inference that what has been allowing [the terrorists] to carry on their attacks with impunity is that they have patrons and protectors in high places." Zia's adviser Chowdhury denies the charge, asserting that his government is investigating all the terrorist attacks thoroughly. Yet opponents point out that months after the Chittagong arms haul, the authorities have still...
Senior officers in Task Force 1/9 concede they do not know whom they're up against. They see boys, some as young as 10, hurling grenades. But they also encounter deftly executed ambushes bearing the mark of professional soldiers and sophisticated terrorist groups. "I really don't know who it is. I really don't know what they want. That's the problem," says Foley. Local militants say operations around Haifa Street have been led by Abu Musa'ab, a former senior Iraqi military officer who's now a commander for Battalions of Islamic Holy War, a group tied...
...been getting on this plane, you know, for 42 years. Why can't I get on the plane?" TED KENNEDY, Senator from Massachusetts, recounting his pleas to airline agents who had blocked him from boarding flights because his name resembled an alias of a suspected terrorist...
...Beijing Games of 2008. For the Russians, many of whom found themselves co-stars or also-rans on stages their nation once dominated, Athens 2004 felt like a poignant salute to a fading power. And for the Americans, these Olympics rarely escaped the shadow of Iraq. The much-feared terrorist attack thankfully didn't come, but American spectators couldn't stop wringing their hands over proper comportment in a world grown hostile toward the lone superpower. (Were they cheering too much? Too little? Should they leave the God Bless The USA fanny pack at the hotel?) It didn't help...