Dear Mr. Sirajuddoula,
 
Please access my write-ups through the following links on the Kuwait issue and arab barbarism.
I fully concur with you and feel very sadly about the arabs. They could have earned potentiality in humanism, if their very roots would not have been dug into the worst of the dark past and substantially of today.
 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alochona/message/10521
 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alochona/message/10535

Thanks.
KR

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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:22:25 -0300
Subject: [chottala.com] Barbarism in Kuwait.

Dear all chottala readers,
 
So many writers are writing so many articles in this postings about so many national and international matters but surprised to notice not a single are discussing about the barbaric activities of the Kuwitis towards the Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait.
 
These Kuwait being a petro-dollar muslim country, richest in the Muslim community leaving aside their muslim ideology busy in cheating the poor people of the third world country. They are depriving them from their hard earn money by not giving them their due salary and wages. If asking for their money these Kuwaitis even don't hesitate to assault them bodily by beating them like slaves as it used to be happened in the primitive ages. 
 
These Kuwatis cannot claim to be a member of the muslim ummah for their non-islamic activities. They are very much proud of their wealth. From God they were already punished but still they could not change their mentality and attitude. May be from God something more is awaiting for them in future. 
 
Doula,
ON, Canada.  

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[chottala.com] Declaration of Independence.

Dear chottala readers,

The following I got it from the news in Virtual Bangladesh. For your kind notice please.

Doula,
ON, Canada.

 

 

Virtual Bangladesh : History : Declaration of Independence

 

              The Declaration of Independence

In English

"Today Bangladesh is a sovereign and independent country. On Thursday night West Pakistani armed forces suddenly attacked the police barracks at Razarbagh and the EPR headquarters at Pilkhana in Dhaka. Many innocent and unarmed have been killed in Dhaka city and other places of Bangladesh. Violent clashes between EPR and Police on the one hand and the armed forces of Pindi on the other, are going on. The Bengalis are fighting the enemy with great courage for an independent Bangladesh. May God aid us in our fight for freedom. Joy Bangla."

Zia's declaration

Excerpted from The History of the Liberation Movement in Bangladesh, Author J. S. Gupta

[The historic Kalurghat radio station]

...meanwhile a message in the form of a telegram reached the hands of a few students from Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The students were excited to receive Mujib's message to the people, but were at a loss to decide what should be done with it. At last it struck them that the message could be broadcast from Agrabad Station of Radio Pakistan...
..The message was translated into Bengali by Dr. Manjula Anwar. As they took the message to the radio station. announcer Kazi Hosne Ara was picked up on the way...
..The Armed police guards posted there were Bengali's who immediately opened the locks and allowed them to go in. Kazi Husne Ara rushed out and brought with her Mahbub Hassan, Belal Ahmed and Abul Kashem Sandwipi.
Making hurried trips between AGrabad broadcasting station and its transmission center at Kalurghat they failed to secure permission from higher authorities to run the station...
It was decided that they should go back to the other side of Kalurghat bridge where rations had just been delivered to the jawans of East Bengal Regiment under the command of Major Ziaur Rahman and plead with them for assistance to run the Kalurghat transmitter as a broadcasting station...
...The engineer [Ashikul Islam] had an interview with the commandant who agreed to send some military guards to protect the Kalurghat Transmitter...
..As the Bengali soldiers took positions to guard the transmission centre, the rebels put their heads together and secured the help of a few engineers of the Kalurghat industrial complex to convert it into a broadcasting station.
As Kalurghat was getting organized into a nerve-centre for coordinating the liberation struggle, Baluch troops had invaded the EBR barracks where under the command of Major Zia a bloody battle raged. Major Zia had to retreat and with a battalion of troops came to Kalurghat. He was made commandant of the rebel forces at Kalurghat where the transmitter was now ready for broadcasting. As contact could not be established between the leaders of the Awami League, Major Zia was requested by the rebel station to broadcast a message of independence to the people of Bangladesh.
At 7:45 pm on 26th March 1971, Major Zia broadcast the message which became historic in the struggle for independence.

"This is Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra. I, Major Ziaur Rahman, at the direction of Bango Bondhu Mujibur Rahman, hereby declare that the independent People's Republic of Bangladesh has been established. At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary head of the republic. In the name of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, I call upon all Bengalis to rise against the attck by the west Pakistani Army. WE shall fight to the last to free our motherland. By the grace of Allah, victory is ours. Joy Bangla."

...Major Zia's message was picked up by a Japanese ship anchored mid- stream in Chittagong harbour. When the news of this declaration was broadcast by Radio Australia, the rest of the world came to know of it...

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[chottala.com] INDIA, Orissa: burning and looting continues, Christians beaten and cut to pieces

» 08/27/2008 13:06 INDIA Orissa: burning and looting continues, Christians beaten and cut to pieces Nirmala Carvalho Vikram Nayak was killed, and then cut to pieces. Two Christians die two days after suffering serious injuries. Unrest by radical Hindus continues as police is ordered to shoot on sight those who break the curfew. Two nuns who were attacked tell their stories; Catholic schools to close for a day; the faithful are called to observe a day of prayer and fasting. Bhubaneshwar (AsiaNews) – Burning, looting, manhunts and violence against women continue today in the state of Orissa as the curfew imposed by the government is expanded from the district of Kadhamal to other cities. Police are ordered to shoot on sight. Only now the death of a Catholic man in the village of Tiangia has come to light. After he was killed Vikram Nayak he was cut to pieces. Two other people close to him were so seriously beaten up and hurt that they died two days later. The murder took place last Sunday evening at the end of the funerals of radical Hindu leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati whose assassination was blamed on Christians. Christian homes in Tiangia were torched and families forced to flee into the forests. They were however pursued and attacked by extremists. Sister Karuna, a nun with the order of the Precious Blood, was one of the first to be hit. Speaking to AsiaNews, she confirmed that "burning and looting were continuing this morning. Women are being molested and brutalised and extremists are doing what they want with them." Sister M. Suma, from the Sisters of Mother Teresa, said that 'Christian villages are being razed to the ground. Terrified, Carmelite nuns have had to flee their convent to find shelter in the woods." Rumours that extremists from other states are coming to Orissa to help local radicals have also been confirmed. Hindu supremacists from Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra have converging in the district of Kandhamal. Some Protestant Christians have said the government of the state of Chhattisgarh is helping paramilitary groups to reach Orissa to attack Christians. Attacks continue in spite of the curfew and the presence of anti-riot units. Police yesterday killed four radical Hindus as hundreds of others attacked the village of Barakhama. Law enforcement agents can shoot on sight those who violate the curfew. Fresh attacks and burning were reported in Baliguda, Udaygiri and Raikia. Orissa's government has come under criticism by Indian political leaders and leading public figures for being slow in enforcing law and order. Some people suspect that it wants to cover up the violence perpetrated by Hindu extremists. On the day violence first broke out with looting, killing and fires, Home Secretary Tarunkanti Mishra told journalists the demonstrations organised by the Sangh Parivar after Swami Laxmanananda's death were "almost entirely peaceful." Sangh Parivar is an umbrella group of Hindu nationalist associations, including paramilitary groups linked to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Sr M Suma, from the Missionaries of Charity, appealed to AsiaNews. "Please, let the whole world that we should love one another—we are al children of the same Father." Elsewhere male and female missionaries of Charity have had stone thrown at them; one of their orphanages and one of their hospitals have been damaged. The same has happened to the vehicles they use to transport the sick and ill. In light of the situation Catholic schools across India have decided to close down next Friday as a protest against the anti-Christian violence in Orissa. For that day the Indian Church is planning a day of prayer and fasting in solidarity with Orissa's persecuted Christians.     Print this page Copyright © 2003 AsiaNews C.F. 00889190153 All rights reserved. Content on this site is made available for personal, non-commercial use only. You may not reproduce, republish, sell or otherwise distribute the content or any modified or altered versions of it without the express written permission of the editor. Photos on AsiaNews.it are largely taken from the internet and thus considered to be in the public domain. Anyone contrary to their publication need only contact the editorial office which will immediately proceed to remove the photos.

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[chottala.com] U.S. soldiers say they executed Iraqis on riverbank: report

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers killed four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots on the bank of a Baghdad canal last year, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

Sergeant First Class Joseph P. Mayo, the platoon sergeant, and Sergeant Michael P. Leahy Jr., Company D's senior medic and an acting squad leader, made sworn statements in January to Army investigators in Schweinfurt, Germany probing the incident, the newspaper reported on its website.

The men each described killing one of the Iraqi detainees, as directed by First Sergeant John E. Hatley, according to the statements. Hatley shot two other detainees with a pistol in the back of the head, Mayo and Leahy told investigators, according to the NYT.

U.S. soldiers cannot harm enemy combatants once they are disarmed and in custody, the NYT said.

A spokesman for the U.S. Army in Europe declined to comment, saying he could not speculate on any future legal action.

David Court, the lawyer in Germany named by the NYT as representing Hatley, was not immediately reachable.

According to Leahy's statement, cited by the NYT, Army officials directed Hatley's convoy to release the men because there was insufficient evidence to detain them.

"First Sergeant Hatley then made the call to take the detainees to a canal and kill them," as retribution for the deaths of two soldiers from the unit, Leahy said in his statement.

"So the patrol went to the canal, and First Sergeant, Sgt. First Class Mayo and I took the detainees out of the back of the Bradley (fighting vehicle), lined them up and shot them," he added, according to The Times. "Then we pushed the bodies into the canal and left."

After the men were killed, Hatley told Leahy and Mayo to remove the Iraqis' bloody blindfolds and plastic handcuffs, according to the newspaper. The three soldiers then shoved the bodies into the canal and drove back to their combat outpost, the paper said.

No charges have been filed against Hatley, Mayo or Leahy -- all from Company D, First Battalion, Second Infantry, 172nd Infantry Brigade.

However, four other soldiers have been charged with conspiracy to commit premeditated murder relating to an incident that occurred last year in Baghdad, the U.S. Army in Europe said in a statement last month.

A hearing in that case opened on Tuesday and is still going on in the southern German town of Vilseck, the U.S. Army spokesman said on Wednesday.

(Additional reporting by Madeline Chambers in Berlin)

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[chottala.com] US claims Dr Aafia eldest son still in Afghan custody

U.S. boy in Afghan custody likely terror suspect's son

Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:51am IST|

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An 11-year-old boy detained with a Pakistani woman accused of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan is believed to be her son, U.S. prosecutors said in a court letter obtained on Tuesday.

U.S.-trained neuroscientist and al Qaeda suspect Aafia Siddiqui, 36, was arrested in Afghanistan in mid-July and flown to New York earlier this month to be charged with attempting to kill and assault U.S. soldiers.

U.S. prosecutors told her lawyers in a letter that preliminary DNA testing on the boy who is in Afghan custody suggests that he is Siddiqui's son. The letter dated Friday was obtained from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Lawyers said the boy is named Ahmed and a U.S. citizen because he was born in Boston.

Siddiqui disappeared from her parents' home in Karachi, Pakistan in March 2003 and resurfaced in Afghanistan. Accounts of where she has been and of her arrest and a shootout in which she was wounded differ between U.S. prosecutors, Afghan police and her lawyers.

The letter said Siddiqui's son initially told United States agents in Afghanistan that he was an orphan and his parents were dead, but DNA testing "is consistent with that of a potential offspring of Aafia Siddiqui."

Siddiqui has two other children whose location is not known. Her lawyers say the boy should be returned to relatives living in the United States or Pakistan.

"He should be returned to his biological family as soon as possible," said Siddiqui's lawyer Elaine Sharp, who said the boy's grandmother in Karachi has been searching for her daughter and three grandchildren for the past five years and "is longing to have him home."

Last Thursday the Pakistani Parliament demanded Siddiqui be returned to Pakistan. It also demanded the United States give her proper medical assistance after she was shot in the abdomen when U.S. officials say she tried to fire on a group of American troops who wanted to question her in Afghanistan's Ghazni province.

Sharp said on Tuesday that medical tests showed Siddiqui had suffered a partial loss of intestine. They are awaiting the results of a CT scan.

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US claims Dr Aafia eldest son still in Afghan custody

Pakistani woman's son believed to be in custody International Herald Tribune, France - 7 hours ago AP NEW YORK: The 11-year-old son of a Pakistani woman accused of trying to shoot a US Army captain is believed to be in custody, US authorities confirmed ...

'Aafia not getting medical care' Daily Times, Pakistan - 9 hours ago WASHINGTON: Elizabeth Fink, a lawyer representing Dr Aafia Siddiqui, has accused US authorities of neglecting the jailed scientist's worsening medical ... Afghan Officials Holding Terror Suspect's Son, a US Citizen ProPublica, NY - 10 hours ago by Eric Umansky - August 26, 2008 5:50 pm EDT The strange case of Aafia Siddiqui continues. As we wrote last week, there are lingering questions about where ...

Aafia Siddiqui

Fate of Aafia's children

Wednesday August 27, 2008 (1103 PST)

A foreign office spokesman has stated that the US has maintained that Dr Aafia Siddiqui's children were not in its custody. This cannot be true for reasons that follow

If the American claim were to be true, it would open up two possibilities:

a) The kids were in Dr Siddiqui's custody. This would mean that when she disappeared five years back, she would have either taken them along, or she would have left them with some close family members, such as their grandparents. However, we know that the lady and her three kids had been abducted together on their way to the airport. So, the children could not be with relatives.

b) The next possibility is that she was so crazed about carrying out jihad that she dumped her kids with someone else and started tearing around the world to fulfil her ambitions. It must be remembered that the children had been between the age of four months and seven years at that time. Obviously, no mother would leave such young offspring at someone else's mercy, particularly when the youngest one had reportedly been murdered two months later.

This brings us to the third possibility. The kids were actually in an American agency's custody all this while, although separated from their mother who was imprisoned, probably in Afghanistan. Now, when the FBI spirited her away to New York to stand trial, they left the kids with some person(s) in Afghanistan, so they wouldn't have to account for them. Therefore, they can, in a way, truthfully say that the children aren't in US custody.

But, this really is an attempt to fool the world. The answer lies in letting their mother come out with her side of the story. But, to keep her from revealing the facts, threats may been made about the safety of her kids who could be a hostage in the hands of those responsible for the whole drama.

Islamabad must forcefully pursue her case because it is causing much unrest, which can't serve Washington's interests, at all.

FATIMA

Karachi

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