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[chottala.com] CARETAKER GOVERNMENT INCREASED THE AMOUNTS OF BRIBE

CT government run a fake anti-corruption activities that actually
increased the amounts of bribes at all the government offices. The
officers who used to take 200 taka bribes now ask 2000 take bribe to do
the same job. If you go to RAJUK office, Nagar Bhaban (Dhaka Municipal
office), Controller of Export-Import office, Land Registration offices
etc. you will see how bribes are transacted in broad day light by each
and every clerks and officers of those offices which are even 5 to 10
times higher than two years ago. Bribe is actually dirty like yellow
stools which is eaten by dirty officers came from low-grade families
and generally paid by citizens who are filthy in morally.


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[chottala.com] CERN : Atom-smasher may prove 'God particle'

 
 
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Atom Smasher Fires Soon ! 1 in 50 million To End World:
 
 
 
Atom-smasher may prove 'God particle'
  • Deborah Smith
  • September 9, 2008 - 10:50AM
One gigantic small part of the Large Hadron Collider.

One gigantic small part of the Large Hadron Collider.

It has been heralded as a monumental creation that will reveal the fundamental nature of the universe, but also as a doomsday machine that could destroy the planet.

The world's biggest instrument - a $9 billion atom-smasher that will recreate conditions not seen since a split second after the big bang 14 billion years ago - will be switched on tomorrow.

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Subatomic particles

 

Atom smasher seeks God particle

Scientists involved in a historic 'Big Bang' experiment to begin this week hope it will turn up many surprises about the universe and its origins.

Holding their breath will be Australian scientists who have helped design and construct one of the huge detectors in the device that will search for an elusive subatomic particle, dubbed the "God particle".

A physicist from the University of Sydney, Kevin Varvell, said he was excited that after 20years of planning, the instrument - called the large hadron collider - would begin operation to expore the nature of matter.

"At last we can test some of our ideas about what we are made of. It will help answer some big and deep questions," he said.

Built 100 metres below the Swiss countryside by CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, the collider will fire two beams of particles in opposite directions around a 27-kilometre ring at almost the speed of light.

When the beams collide head on, they will create fireballs and showers of subatomic debris never witnessed before.

Dr Varvell said the impacts could produce man-made mini black holes, reveal that the universe has extra dimensions that are normally curled up, and throw light on the nature of the mysterious dark matter which makes up most of the cosmos.

It should also reveal whether the Higgs boson, or God particle, exists or not.

According to the standard theory of matter, the boson gives everything its mass, and the Australian team helped design the 7000-tonne ATLAS detector in one of the cathedral-sized caverns that will look for it.

Dr Varvell said if the boson was not spotted,"that would tell us something very profound as well".

New theories about the underlying physics of the universe would have to be developed, he said.

Dr Varvell will give a lecture on the collider with Dr Karl Kruszelnicki at the University of Sydney on Wednesday.

 
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    Re: [chottala.com] Corrupion replaced by corruption

    i can not agree with the points about india. Indian politicians are no better than us.
     
     there is allegation of rape against Rahul and  he cheated a employer saying that he completed master degree but he didn't . so he lost his job.
     
     Corruption in india is no less than  Bangladesh. people can take 52hour overttime  for a day.
     
     you have know more about india . You have got biased idea about india.

    আল্লাহ যাকে যখন ইচ্ছা ক্ষমতা দান করেন,মাইনাস টু ফরমুলায় তাই হাসেন
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    Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Corrupion replaced by corruption
    To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
    Date: Sunday, September 7, 2008, 5:29 PM

    perfect...i am totally agree with you
     
    Mumin
    Montreal
    Canada

    --- On Mon, 8/9/08, siraj@yahoo. com <siraj@yahoo. com> wrote:
    From: siraj@yahoo. com <siraj@yahoo. com>
    Subject: [chottala.com] Corrupion replaced by corruption
    To: chottala@yahoogroup s.com
    Date: Monday, 8 September, 2008, 1:06 AM

    Dear Chottala Readers,
    Just look at Pakistan. Asif Ali Zardari once known to be  as 10% during the regime of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.  Later on he was put in jail for 8 years by Pervez Musharraf for his corruption. Where is Asif Ali Zardari now--- prison to President. People of Pakistan after garlanding him elected him as the President of their country. 

     
    Who knows after few years we the people of Bangladesh will do the same thing as Pakistan did now.
    Please wait and see our people will bring Tareque Zia or Joy either as President or something like that after garlanding them. Because we the people of Bangladesh still could not raise ourselves beyond that level. Our country is still full of corruption from top to bottom. Corrupted people will also bring a corrupted leader just like an ass are always habituated in drinking dirty water.
     
    Now look at India. A little bit of corruption is there also. But during selection or election they are always particular in selecting a patriotic leader in a real democratic sense.
     
    Where is democracy in our country? Do you think our people are selecting our leader in a true sense of democracy. Our leader always used to tell us they have returned the people's democracy to the people 
    again. What type of democracy they have returned to us? In the name of democracy they have presented us some corrupted elements from our soceity. We are eating now bitter quinines instead of enjoying the fruits of democracy. 
     
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    Windsor, ON, Canada    
     
     
     





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    Re: [chottala.com] Corrupion replaced by corruption

    Wow, Well written. I do not blame Tareque or Joy we
    the people(Chattuker, submissive) made them our
    leaders.

    Thanks,
    Taher.

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    > perfect...i am totally agree with you
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    > Mumin
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    > Just look at Pakistan. Asif Ali Zardari once known
    > to be  as 10% during the regime of Prime Minister
    > Benazir Bhutto.  Later on he was put in jail for 8
    > years by Pervez Musharraf for his corruption. Where
    > is Asif Ali Zardari now--- prison to President.
    > People of Pakistan after garlanding him elected him
    > as the President of their country. 
    >  
    > Who knows after few years we the people of
    > Bangladesh will do the same thing as Pakistan did
    > now.
    > Please wait and see our people will bring Tareque
    > Zia or Joy either as President or something like
    > that after garlanding them. Because we the people of
    > Bangladesh still could not raise ourselves beyond
    > that level. Our country is still full of corruption
    > from top to bottom. Corrupted people will also bring
    > a corrupted leader just like an ass are always
    > habituated in drinking dirty water.
    >  
    > Now look at India. A little bit of corruption is
    > there also. But during selection or election they
    > are always particular in selecting a patriotic
    > leader in a real democratic sense.
    >  
    > Where is democracy in our country? Do you think our
    > people are selecting our leader in a true sense of
    > democracy. Our leader always used to tell us they
    > have returned the people's democracy to the people 
    > again. What type of democracy they have returned to
    > us? In the name of democracy they have presented us
    > some corrupted elements from our soceity. We are
    > eating now bitter quinines instead of enjoying the
    > fruits of democracy. 
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    > Doula,
    > Windsor, ON, Canada    
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    [chottala.com] American Mafia, Release Afia ! [Voice of power threatens voice of dialogue By Sharunas Paunksnis ]

    Voice of power threatens voice of dialogue
    08/09/2008 05:30:00 PM GMT         t   
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    Reuters) Protesters show their solidarity with Aafia Siddiqui during a demonstration in Lahore August 12, 2008
     
    Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay. Shocking arrests and mysterious disappearances. Will these initiatives, conducted in the name of security, really make the world a better place?

    By Sharunas Paunksnis

    Kaunas, Lithuania - They always come at night, George Orwell told us. You wake up to find people holding flashlights and surrounding your bed.

    This image always reappears during times of tension and mistrust around the world – the faceless secret agency whisking off the unsuspecting to unspecified horrors because of the way they look or their refusal to conform.

    For many, this image overshadows the controversy surrounding the July arrest of Aafia Siddiqui in Afghanistan and her 5 August court appearance in New York. She is charged with attempted murder of an American interrogator while in custody in Afghanistan where she was allegedly detained for acting suspiciously and carrying suspected bomb-making materials, instructions and a guide of New York landmarks in her handbag.

    Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman listed by the United States in 2004 as one of seven suspected al Qaeda associates feared to be planning an attack, disappeared with her three small children in Karachi in 2003, and reappeared suspiciously five years later in New York with the hollow look of a concentration camp prisoner on her face.

    What happened to Siddiqui and her children during those five years remains a mystery. Her sister Fauzia alleges she was abducted and taken into secret custody by the United States. The United States denies any knowledge of her whereabouts during this time, although many Pakistanis believe that she was kidnapped and spent those years in a secret prison for militants in Afghanistan before being transported to the United States to face charges.

    The speculation surrounding this case reminds me of a recent Pakistani movie, Khuda Kay Liye (In the name of God), directed by Shoaib Mansoor. The protagonist, Mansoor, is arrested in Orwellian fashion following the events of 9/11.

    His character could be seen as a model for contemporary Muslims, as well as a victim of the system. He was unlawfully detained, repeatedly questioned by U.S. authorities ("What is your relationship with Osama?") and tortured – a clear allusion to Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

    The film reflects general fears that are present in the world at the moment – the fear of an evil "other" – for whom one's name and skin colour may be sufficient to blame them for conspiracy against the "free world".

    Mansoor represents the absurdities of miscommunication between Muslim societies and the West, fuelled by the fashionable Huntingtonian division of the world into groups that seek not to communicate with and understand one another, but to confront one another, thereby widening the supposed chasm between nations and people who in fact have so much in common.

    Khuda Kay Liye demonstrates that such incidents put prospects of mutual understanding into question and emphasise the division between "us" and "them". No wonder there are so many who believe that Islam is under siege.

    It was not long after the huge success of this movie in Pakistan that Aafia Siddiqui finally surfaced publicly.

    Oftentimes, in matters such as this, truth and justice are lost in a political and legal jungle of conflicting agendas. We may never know the truth about Aafia, but the image of a malnourished and devastated mother of three will remain among the increasing number of symbols used to uphold an image of oppression.

    Can we, the inheritors of past century's legacy of brutalities, not learn from the wars, conflicts and torture of our own and past generations? We must realise the controversy, speculation and inadequate evidence surrounding the Siddiqui case is just the type of thing that pushes us further away from the hope of mutual understanding.

    How many stories like this will we, co-inhabitants of this small world, bear witness to before we stand up and demand a better way of doing things?

    Whether or not Siddiqui is found to have been held in a secret prison in Afghanistan, and whether or not there is truth to the charges against her, recent events have resulted in a loss of trust between the United States and many of the world's Muslims.

    We are faced with an ethical dilemma. Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay. Shocking arrests and mysterious disappearances. Extraordinary renditions. These are not fictional plot lines. Will these initiatives, conducted in the name of security, really make the world a better place, or will they contribute to irreversibly dividing it, feeding on our anger and distrust?

    Everything is in our hands.

    Can we remain silent in the face of processes that threaten to divide our world and lend credence to the argument of a global conflict of identities?

    Today, the voice of power is much louder than the voice of dialogue, and our hope is that someday the latter will dominate both politics and public perception. We must join those who are trying to pull down the wall of ignorance that is being built between Muslim societies and the West.

    -- Sharunas Paunksnis is pursuing a PhD in social theory and Asian studies at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. This article was written for the Common Ground News Service and can be accessed at GCNews.

    Source: Middle East Online
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    [chottala.com] The Strange and Terrible Case of Aafia Siddiqui

     
     
    Joanne Mariner

    The Strange and Terrible Case of Aafia Siddiqui

    By JOANNE MARINER
    Monday, Sept. 08, 2008

    Everyone agrees that she's a 36-year-old mother of three young children. But while the New York Post calls her the "Al Qaeda mom," and federal prosecutors claim that when she was arrested in July she was carrying a bag packed with chemicals and handwritten notes about a "mass casualty attack," Aafia Siddiqui's lawyers say she's a victim.

    "This woman has been tortured and she needs help," explained Elizabeth Fink, one of her defense counsel, at an August 11 court hearing.

    Siddiqui disappeared in Pakistan in March 2003. Together with her three children - then aged 6 years, 5 years, and 6 months - she reportedly left her parents' home in Karachi to visit her uncle in Islamabad, but never arrived. Last July, more than five years later, she mysteriously reappeared in US custody in Afghanistan. Based on their interviews with her, and a pattern of similar cases, her lawyers claim that she has spent the last five years as a secret captive of Pakistani or American authorities.

    Siddiqui's oldest child, Ahmed, was found with her in Afghanistan. The whereabouts of her two younger children are unknown.

    Disappearance from Karachi, Reappearance in Ghazni

    The name Aafia Siddiqui first came to public attention on March 18, 2003, when the FBI issued an alert requesting information about her. Siddiqui, a US-educated neuroscientist, was then living in Pakistan. The US government later alleged that Siddiqui was linked to al Qaeda suspects Majid Khan and Ali 'Abd al-'Aziz Ali (also known as Ammar al-Baluchi), and news outlets reported that she had acted as an al Qaeda fixer.

    Majid Khan and Ali 'Abd al-'Aziz Ali both disappeared from Karachi at almost precisely the same time as Siddiqui did. They did not reappear until September 2006, after their transfer to Guantanamo from CIA custody. For more than three years, they had been secretly held by the CIA or one of the CIA's proxies. Like many others, they had been arrested by the Pakistani intelligence services and handed over to CIA as part of the "war on terror."

    When Siddiqui disappeared, on approximately March 28, 2003, the Pakistani papers mentioned reports that she had been "picked up in Karachi by an intelligence agency" and "shifted to an unknown place for questioning." A year later, in a follow-up story, the Pakistani papers quoted a Pakistani government spokesman who said that she had been handed over to US authorities in 2003.

    But unlike Khan and a number of others, Siddiqui did not reappear in US custody in 2006; nor was she heard from in 2007. It was not until July 2008, after her case had started gaining political notoriety, that she suddenly reappeared in Afghanistan.

    According to the official US account, Afghan police arrested Aafia Siddiqui and her son in Ghazni, Afghanistan, on July 17, 2008. The federal indictment against Siddiqui states that the Afghan police officers who arrested her found suspicious items in her handbag, including notes referring "to the construction of 'dirty bombs,' chemical and biological weapons, and other explosives." Siddiqui's lawyers reject this account, suggesting that the charges against Siddiqui are a sham.

    US federal prosecutors allege that the day after her arrest, while still in Afghan custody, she grabbed a gun from the floor and fired it at a team of US soldiers and federal intelligence agents who were visiting the Afghan police compound where she was being held. Nobody was killed in the scuffle, but Siddiqui was injured. In August, she was charged with assaulting and trying to kill US officials. She is currently in US federal custody in New York City, awaiting arraignment.

    An Unlikely Story

    Siddiqui's story seems improbable, no matter which version you believe. If you trust the US story, you have to imagine that Siddiqui succeeded in hiding for more than five years -- despite the intense interest of US and Pakistani intelligence services - then decided to pop up in Afghanistan with an all-purpose terrorism kit, and then, upon her arrest, decided to take advantage of a security lapse to blast away at US soldiers and FBI agents. More than the al Qaeda mom, as the New York Post dubs her, she would have to be al Qaeda's Angelina Jolie.

    The claim that she was hidden away in secret detention all these years might seem equally unlikely. But when one realizes that the people she was allegedly linked to were themselves held in secret detention, and that the Pakistani intelligence services were covertly arresting dozens of people in Karachi during this period, the story gains plausibility.

    Because Siddiqui's disappearance fit neatly into a larger pattern, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and several other human rights groups included Siddiqui on a 2007 list of people suspected to have been in CIA custody.

    Although the US government has denied that the United States held Siddiqui during the period of her disappearance, the federal court that is hearing her case should facilitate an in-depth investigation of her lawyers' claims. The possibility that Siddiqui was held for five years in secret detention before her official arrest is not only deeply relevant to her mental state at the time of the alleged crimes, it goes to the integrity of the court's jurisdiction.

    11-Year-Old Ahmed Siddiqui

    Besides the question of where Siddiqui herself has been all of the years, an even more pressing question is where are her children?

    To date, the whereabouts of the two youngest children - who should now be about 5 and 10 years old - are unknown. But Siddiqui's oldest son, Ahmed, an 11-year-old with American citizenship, is in Afghan custody.

    According to an Afghan Interior Ministry official quoted in the Washington Post, Ahmed Siddiqui was held briefly by the Interior Ministry when he was arrested with his mother in July, and then he was transferred to the custody of the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS), the country's intelligence agency. The NDS is notorious for its brutal treatment of detainees.

    Under Afghan and international law, Ahmed Siddiqui is too young to be treated as a criminal suspect. Under Afghanistan's Juvenile Code, the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 13. And according to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which monitors the treatment of children globally, a minimum age of criminal responsibility below age 12 is "not ... internationally acceptable."

    Human Rights Watch has called upon the Afghan authorities to release Ahmed Siddiqui to members of his biological family, who reside in Pakistan, or to a child welfare organization that can provide proper care until he is reunited with his family. As Human Rights Watch has emphasized, an 11-year-old should never have been transferred to the custody of the NDS.

    "Treatment Fairly Characterized as Horrendous"

    Siddiqui's lawyers say that she is a physical and psychological wreck. Her nose has reportedly been broken; she is deathly pale, and her mental state is extremely fragile. Siddiqui refused to attend her most recent court hearing, unhappy with the prospect of an invasive strip search, but at an early hearing she seemed in obvious pain.

    "She is a mother of three who has been through several years of detention, whose interrogators were Americans, [and] who endured treatment fairly characterized as horrendous," said Elaine Sharp, one of Siddiqui's lawyers. As this case progresses, in the coming weeks and months, the court should ensure that the public learns the truth of these claims.


    Joanne Mariner is an attorney with Human Rights Watch in New York.

    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20080908.html

    JOANNE MARINER

     

    Joanne Mariner is the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program Director at Human Rights Watch. She has worked on a wide variety of issues for the organization, documenting war crimes in Colombia, Kosovo and Darfur, political violence in Haiti, and the interface between terrorism and the laws of war, among others.

    Mariner drafted Human Rights Watch's 1999 submission to the House of Lords in the Pinochet case, and is the author of a ground-breaking 2001 report on prison rape. She has also conducted advocacy before U.N. bodies, briefed members of Congress and staff on human rights issues, and appeared on national media such as C-SPAN, ABC News, and NPR.

    A graduate of Yale Law School, she served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before joining Human Rights Watch in 1994. She speaks French and Spanish.

    The views expressed in her column are her own, and do not necessarily reflect those of Human Rights Watch, FindLaw.

    Debating Human Rights and Counterterrorism in Britain
    FindLaw columnist and human rights attorney Joanne Mariner describes the ongoing debate in Britain regarding proposed legislation that would alter the law on detention without charge. Drawing upon a Human Rights Watch report, Mariner explains why both conservatives and liberals have expressed opposition to the U.K.'s proposed new law. In addition, she points out that the proposed law would not only extend the period of detention from 28 days to 42 days, but also, if the power to detain a suspect were repeatedly reauthorized, could lead to a much longer period of "rolling" detention, composed of numerous 42-day periods. Finally, she suggests solutions that could remedy the serious rights issues the bill raises.

    A UK Window into CIA Abuses
    FindLaw columnist and human rights attorney Joanne Mariner discusses a UK proceeding, scheduled for this week, that may reveal hitherto unknown facts about the treatment of U.S. detainee Binyam Mohamed, and about U.S. interrogation procedures more generally. Mohamed says that, while in secret CIA detention, he endured torture that caused him later, while in military detention, to give false evidence that will be used against him when he faces potential terrorism-related charges before a military commission at Guantanamo. Last week, the UK High Court ruled that the British government, due to the UK's involvement in Mohamed's detention, was under a legal obligation to disclose to Mohamed's defense counsel the information it possesses relating to Mohamed's whereabouts, treatment, and interrogation, since this information may be important to his defense. However, the High Court stopped short of ordering such disclosure, in order to take more time to consider the national security implications of the case. This week, the High Court will once again address Mohamed's case, and may well direct the government to hand over the evidence, unless the UK foreign secretary quickly intervenes.

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