More BNP bigwigs to be charge-sheeted for terrorism

[rajusri]

LeT have entered deep inside Bangladesh through BNP and Jamat Islami coordinating terrorism against Bangladesh and India. LeT supplied grenades for attack on Sheikh Hasina and supplying arms to terrorists against India and Bangladesh.

These want to make Bangladesh another terrorists hub.


http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=191901


More BNP bigwigs to be charge-sheeted

Chaitanya Chandra Halder and Kailash Sarkar

Further investigations into the August 21 grenade attack cases have so far found involvement of around 20 more people from BNP, Jamaat, intelligence agencies and militant outfits.

Those who might be named in supplementary charge sheets include Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, senior BNP lawmaker, Harris Chowdhury, ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia's political secretary, and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general, said Criminal Investigation Department officials.

A top BNP leader, who was a key person at the Hawa Bhaban, former political office of the BNP chairperson, might also be implicated, along with some first-class government officials, said the officials.

CID investigators have been asked by court to submit charge sheets by July 3.

The carnage at Sheikh Hasina's rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004 killed 23 Awami League leaders and workers and injured over 300.

Two cases were filed in connection with the blasts--one under explosive substances act and the other for killing people.

A Dhaka court on August 3, 2009, ordered further probe, as the investigation had failed to unearth the sources of the grenades used and identify the masterminds behind the attack.

Thirteen of those to be included in supplementary charge sheets have already been shown arrested in the cases. They are SQ Chowdhury, Mojaheed, former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, former director general of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Major Gen (retd) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury, former DG of National Security Intelligence Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim, Khaleda's nephew Saiful Islam Duke, city BNP leader Ariful Islam Arif, Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji) leaders Moulana Sheikh Farid, Moulana Abdur Rouf, Moulana Abdul Hannan Sabbir, Huji founder and Islamic Democratic Party (IDP) chief Abdus Salam, Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leader Abdul Malek alias Golam Mohammad and Yusuf Butt alias Majid Butt.

CID investigators are also convinced about involvement of BNP lawmaker Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad and former DGFI official Lt Col (sacked) Saiful Islam Joarder.

Harris Chowdhury and Saiful Joarder are still on the run, while the agency has reportedly sought the Speaker's permission to arrest opposition lawmaker Kaikobad.

Contacted, Investigation Officer Abdul Kahar Akhand declined to make any comment about seeking the Speaker's permission.

Among the detainees, Huji leaders Farid, Rouf and Sabbir, IDP leader Salam, and LeT leaders Golam Mohammad and Majid Butt have admitted in the courts their involvement in the attack. They have also disclosed names of their associates.

According to Salam's statement, Harris, Babar, former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, Rezzaqul Haider, Abdur Rahim and a number of Huji leaders met several times at the Hawa Bhaban before the August 21 attack, said prosecution sources.

Babar helped Moulana Tajuddin, an accused in the case and Pintu's brother, to flee the country after the blasts, Salam added.

In their confessional statements, LeT leaders Butt and Golam said Tajuddin supplied the grenades used in the August 21 attack. He had been helping Pakistan-based LeT to transport arms and ammunition to militant organisations in Kashmir via Bangladesh.

On June 12 , 2008, CID submitted a charge sheet accusing 22 people including Salam Pintu, his brothers Moulana Tajuddin and Moulana Liton, Huji boss Mufti Hannan, his brother Mafizur Rahman, Moulana Abu Taher, Sharif Shahidul Islam, Moulana Abu Sayeed alias Dr Abu Zafar, Mufti Moin alias Abu Zandal, Abul Kalam Bulbul, Jahangir Alam, Arif Hasan Sumon, Jewel, Hossain Ahmed, Anisul Mursalin and his brother Mahibul Muttakin, Iqbal, Moulana Abu Bakar, Moulana Liton alias Jubayer, Uzzal alias Ratan, Rafiqul Islam Sabuj and Khalilur Rahman.

Of them, Tajuddin, Liton, Jahangir, Abu Bakar, Khalilur Rahman and Iqbal are on the run, while Mursalin and Muttakin are in Tihar jail in India.

During the BNP-led four-party alliance rule, the then CID investigators tried to mislead the probe to save the real culprits, noted CID officials.

They falsely implicated one Joj Miah.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Encouraging fundamentalists can cause another sad state of affairs as it is happening in Pakistan.

 

[rajusri]

Encouraging fundamentalists can cause another sad state of affairs as it is happening in Pakistan.

BNP went so far that they joined hand with LeT to supply weapons to terrorists and killing of Hasina! They just want to make Bangladesh another terrorist hub of the world.

 

[fallstuff]

BNP went so far that they joined hand with LeT to supply weapons to terrorists and killing of Hasina! They just want to make Bangladesh another terrorist hub of the world.

In Bangladesh folks get arrested, charged, and routinely get convicted unlike your Mao and insurgency infested India.

 

[rajusri]

In Bangladesh folks get arrested, charged, and routinely get convicted unlike your Mao and insurgency infested India.

In India also folks are convicted for their crimes but if India is a insurgency infested than your are not a country but conflict zone of other countries. or can be called as terrorist country where govt (the than home minister) supplying weapons to the terrorists. Calling India insurgency infested is not going to solve your problem but we will solve it in cooperation with Bangladesh govt. Look at it. Indian foreign minister just visited.

 

[Roybot]

Good job. Nab all the terrorist scum.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

In Bangladesh folks get arrested, charged, and routinely get convicted unlike your Mao and insurgency infested India.

Let us look at the issue differently.

Now, if the policy is to use terror groups, state funded or internationally funded and trained, as a part of the national 'strategic assets' policy, then nothing can be said about the same, except for other countries making noises and protests.

If these terrorists groups, operates out of Bangladesh, as a free wheeling brigands supported by rogue elements in the government echelons, then it is dangerous, not only for countries these brigands are targeting but also for the country from where they are operating. The ideal case in point is Bangla Bhai, whom the BNP govt nabbed and who had played havoc also in Bangladesh itself!!

Then the question arises is, is it good that these rogue elements who have sympathies for terrorist group are arrested and sentenced?

To my mind, it is. The reason is that such terror group groups protected by rogue elements in the Govt and official machinery grows stronger by the day and even makes the rogue elements assisting them redundant.

The end result is that they become a 'state within a state' and lead to more chaos.

I keep going back to Pakistan as an example. Pakistan's democracy intrinsically is as good as any other democracies in the subcontinent. Where the Pakistani democracy suffers is that these terrorist organisations have become a 'state within a state' and some of them are allegedly being patronised by the powers that be. In short, the Govt is totally helplessly flounders and is at the wrong end of the stick, domestically and internationally.

Then there are elements within the civil citizenry, charged with misplaced religious zeal, who are myopic, suffering from acute myopia. They support the activities of these fundamentalist elements morally and may even be financially with the false hope of the return of the Khalifat and even think that Islam will be über alles if these terrorists succeed.

The Khalifat is not feasible in the modern contemporary scenario and mindset. Every man thinks he is a Khalifa. Every Islamic country think they are the real successor of the Khalifat. (There is such a thread on this very forum). The point to ponder is if the Khalifat was feasible, then would Islam wait this long for us to nudge it on its way? When the OIC or the Arab League cannot agree on Palestine and other issue, how can one expect them to abdicate to any country or group which wishes to have a Khalifa from their ranks?

Many of the terrorist organisations, while proffering to be soldiers of Islam, are basically feathering their own nests. And basically, most of them are driven by the urge that is common with all human beings - to be most powerful. If that was not so, then would there have been so many factions of the Mujahideens fighting a holy war against USSR, a kaffir nation, in Afghanistan? Ponder, if there is a jihad should it not be coordinated by one nodal agency so that the resources are optimised? If there was solely the religious requirement to overthrow the kaffir from Afghanistan, why should there be a requirement for wanting to be the leader? If for such a simple thing as throwing out the kaffirs from Afghanistan cannot coalesce the soldiers of Islam in one unit, the issue of bringing in the Khilafa becomes a moot point.

In short, the fundamentalists, no matter what religious fervour they may indicate they are striving for, they fall short since they want basically power for themselves and that is about all.

Therefore, it is right to rein in fundamentalists of all religions, everywhere in the world, for they do not contribute to stability and peace and instead are agents of chaos.

The threads on this forum indicates the anger, revulsion and frustration that has seized a large part of the populace over the shenanigans that the so called jihads (terrorists) are waging in Pakistan and ruining their peace, stability, economy and some semblance of normal life.

The fundamentalists and terrorists have to be reined in.

In so far as the Maoists, they have to be reined in, jailed and even hung.

 

[saleen_s7]

I am a bit confused. Last time I read that ULFA was responsible for this attack and now I hear its LeT. The details of the investigation is NOT transparent even after the ruling party promised that it will be.
When the case initially started, some junior BNP leaders were accused of collaborating with the ULFA. As time went past, and BNP has been protesting against the ruling party, they started to accuse the senior leaders ranging from SQ Chowdury to Tareque rahman.
Off course I do not know who is actually responsible for the attack but why will people such as Tareque collaborate with terrorist organisations like ULFA and LeT, given that he was already in power. If BNP senior leaders were actually involved, how could they have not pulled this off, given they were in power? WHy use grenades, when things could have been done much easier?
Look at how awami league behave now: they don't like anyone, they just make them disappear in broad day light or something to such extent. If sheikh hasina was to be taken out, it could have been much easier. just my opinion.

 

[yuhua]

if this is...then fence out the border with mines and give the bsf full hand to handle these thugs.
bsf should be given choppers to operate and to attack these terrorist

 

[fallstuff]

Maoists run multiple state within India. 40% Indian land has no effective administration, Maoists control those areas including but not limited to taxation, administration, and social services. This is the definition of a Banana Republic. These folks have no idea that Maoists are crawling all over where the sun does not shine.

BD is far from that.

It seems like some of these Indian posters are totally disconnected from the real India. In their world Maoists don't exists, minorities do not get slaughtered, millions of baby girls are not killed or aborted, caste system is thing of the past, justice is served faster than a speeding bullet to folks belonging to minority.

It is mind boggling that how detached these posters are. My advice is open the window , take a whiff of that air, the hygiene issue will hit you smack on the nose and back to reality.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

I am a bit confused. Last time I read that ULFA was responsible for this attack and now I hear its LeT. The details of the investigation is NOT transparent even after the ruling party promised that it will be.
When the case initially started, some junior BNP leaders were accused of collaborating with the ULFA. As time went past, and BNP has been protesting against the ruling party, they started to accuse the senior leaders ranging from SQ Chowdury to Tareque rahman.
Off course I do not know who is actually responsible for the attack but why will people such as Tareque collaborate with terrorist organisations like ULFA and LeT, given that he was already in power. If BNP senior leaders were actually involved, how could they have not pulled this off, given they were in power? WHy use grenades, when things could have been done much easier?
Look at how awami league behave now: they don't like anyone, they just make them disappear in broad day light or something to such extent. If sheikh hasina was to be taken out, it could have been much easier. just my opinion.

If grenades are not suitable, do you have any suggestions as to what would be the mode by which it could have been easier?

Given the chaos, confusion and anarchy that is Bangladesh, as per what gleans from the Bangladeshi posters, there is no doubt there is not only transparency but also a serious doubt has been raised if there is governance at all.

The latest mode of hartals which is practically going to go on for over a month, now that the Islamist parties have called for hartal during Ramadan, when one is said to supposed not harbour adverse thoughts and instead think of love for mankind, does indicate that everyone is hell bent to destroy the tranquillity and stability (the modicum that might still be there).

I presume that if the BNP was in power, the same shenanigan would have been orchestrated by the AL as had been done in the past.

if this is...then fence out the border with mines and give the bsf full hand to handle these thugs.
bsf should be given choppers to operate and to attack these terrorist

An interesting suggestion, but you cannot mine borders at will.

Mining has many ramifications and is not done on the border opposite a country which there appears to be no armed hostility.

Maoists run multiple state within India. 40% Indian land has no effective administration, Maoists control those areas including but not limited to taxation, administration, and social services. This is the definition of a Banana Republic. These folks have no idea that Maoists are crawling all over where the sun does not shine.

BD is far from that.

It seems like some of these Indian posters are totally disconnected from the real India. In their world Maoists don't exists, minorities do not get slaughtered, millions of baby girls are not killed or aborted, caste system is thing of the past, justice is served faster than a speeding bullet to folks belonging to minority.

It is mind boggling that how detached these posters are. My advice is open the window , take a whiff of that air, the hygiene issue will hit you smack on the nose and back to reality.

Anyone who does not have any idea of the geography of India would come to the conclusion about the Maoist control.

The area the Maoists operate is not only underdeveloped, it is jungles and sparse populated. Even without the Maoist threat, it was not administered the way one would expect in urban or rural area. The jungles are populated by birds and animals and they don't require human administration nor can they animals and birds be taxed.

India exists with all its faults and yet it is a reckonable country where foreign investments pour in without invitation and fortunately the country is not paralysed by months on end with hartals and other chaos.

 

[Zabaniyah]

How's LeT related to Bangladesh in anyway?