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Friday, April 10, 2009

[chottala.com] Deadly day for US troops in Iraq-Suicide blast kills 5 US soldiers -Total Deaths: 4271 as of April 10, 2009



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Reported Deaths: 4271 as of April 10, 2009]
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Deadly day for US troops in Iraq

Suicide blast kills 5 US soldiers, 2 Iraqi police

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AP – Map locates Mosul, Iraq, where a suicide truck bomb killed U.S. soldiers and Iraqi policemen

BAGHDAD – A suicide truck driver detonated a ton of explosives near a police headquarters in the northern city of Mosul on Friday, killing five American soldiers in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in more than a year.

The U.S. military said Iraqi police were the bomber's target and that the Americans were caught up as bystanders.

The horrific blast, believed to have been carried out by Sunni extremists, is likely to increase pressure on Iraq's prime minister to ask American combat troops to stay in Mosul after the June 30 deadline for them to pull out of Iraqi cities.

America's top commander suggested in an interview this week that even as U.S. troops pull out of other cities, he may have to send reinforcements to Mosul, about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, and to volatile Diyala province, northeast of the capital.

Of the 31 U.S. troops killed in combat in the Iraq war this year, more than a third — 11 — have been in Mosul, an angry, impoverished city where efforts to obliterate al-Qaida and other Sunni militants have failed over the years. About 2,000 U.S. troops and about 20,000 Iraqi army and police currently are stationed insid Mosul.

Besides the five Americans, two Iraqi policemen also died in the midmorning blast Friday near the Iraqi National Police headquarters in the southwest of the city, a U.S. statement said. At least 62 people, including one American soldier and 27 civilians, were wounded, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

A policeman, who identified himself by his nickname Abu Mohammed, said he saw the truck — its explosives hidden beneath grain — driving behind two U.S. Humvees on the street leading to the police headquarters.

The Humvees entered the compound and stopped. Within seconds, the driver rammed through a metal barrier, slammed into a sandbagged wall near the Humvees and triggered the blast as Iraqi guards sprayed the vehicle with gunfire, he said.

Lt. Col. Michael Stuart, chief of operations for northern Iraq, said the target was the police compound and that the patrol just happened to be in the area when the attack occurred.

"It was just bad timing," Stuart told The Associated Press.

Friday's blast was the single deadliest attack on U.S. troops in Iraq since March 10, 2008, when a suicide bomber struck American soldiers on a foot patrol in Baghdad. Five Americans were killed in that attack.

More recently, four U.S. soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter died Feb. 9 in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city with a population of about 2 million. The dead included a lieutenant colonel, one of only three battalion commanders killed in action in the six-year war.

Despite those losses, American casualties have fallen to their lowest levels of the war since thousands of Sunnis abandoned the insurgency and U.S. and Iraqi forces routed Shiite militias in Baghdad and Basra last spring.

But that success has not been replicated in Mosul, where repeated operations have failed to subdue al-Qaida and about a dozen other Sunni militant groups. Many insurgents are believed to have fled to northern Iraq after losing their sanctuaries in Baghdad and elsewhere.

The U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that took effect this year requires American combat troops to leave bases in cities by the end of June. President Barack Obama plans to remove all combat units by September 2010 and withdraw the rest of the U.S. force by 2012.

But the top U.S. commander, Gen. Raymond Odierno, said this week that he worries Iraqi forces won't be ready to assume full responsibility for Mosul by the June deadline.

Odierno told The Times of London in an interview published Thursday that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki faces a "very difficult" political decision whether to ask U.S. troops to stay longer in Mosul.

Mosul politicians themselves are divided over the issue. The majority Sunni Arabs generally oppose an extension while minority Kurds and their allies support it. A Sunni party won the provincial election in Mosul last January and is due to take office Sunday now that coalition talks are over.

Atheel al-Nujaifi, who is expected to become governor of the province around Mosul, opposes keeping the Americans in the city.

"There is no reason for U.S. forces to stay beyond June because well-organized and well-disciplined Iraqi security forces are capable of securing the province," al-Nujaifi said Friday. "We will work to ensure this when we take over the provincial council."

However, another prominent local politician, Hashim al-Hamadani, said "the situation in Mosul is grave" and "we need U.S. forces after the June deadline."

"Otherwise, violence will spread," he said.

Also Friday, police in Diyala province said one person was killed and five were wounded when a bomb hidden on a bicycle exploded the night before during a wedding celebration about 45 miles northeast of Baghdad.

Iraqi police in the southern city of Basra said Friday they arrested 65 people in overnight raids after an attack on a U.S. convoy in the area and the kidnapping of two guards working for a local Iraqi security firm.

The arrested included 20 people who were already on a wanted list and 45 others, mostly militiamen, said the city's police spokesman Col. Karim al-Zeidi.

The U.S. military said the American convoy was hit by a roadside bomb near Basra airport on Thursday but there were no casualties. Al-Zeidi said the two company employees were abducted late Thursday. He would not identify the company.

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Associated Press writers Chelsea J. Carter and Sameer N. Yacoub, and AP researcher Monika Mathur in New York contributed to this report.

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RE: [chottala.com] Who is 'Sunita Paul'? by Mashuqur Rahman [The Daily Star]



I believe (because I do not see anything more logical) Sunita Paul, Avijit Dev, etc. are some (cyber world's known) people just in  disguies.  An effort of finding these people by their real identification may disinfect the cyberspace a little bit. I am almost sure that Avijit Dev is Firoz Alam of New York and Sunita Paul might be someone known to our veteran cyber general Isha Khan shaheb. My two cents.
 

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From: Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:13:51 -0400
Subject: [chottala.com] Who is 'Sunita Paul'? by Mashuqur Rahman [The Daily Star]



 
 

The Daily Star

 
Saturday, April 11, 2009
 
Who is 'Sunita Paul'?
 
Mashuqur Rahman
 
SUNITA PAUL" is an "Indian journalist" who has been writing inflammatory articles on Bangladesh in little known foreign online outlets. "Sunita Paul" is also a plagiarista cheat.
"Sunita Paul" has caused quite a stir recently because her articles make extraordinary claims, based on anonymous sources and apparent hearsay, about the political situation in Bangladesh. Extraordinary claims without much factual support require a significant leap of faith by the reader. Whether they should be believed completely depend on her credibility.
The very persona of "Sunita Paul" is somewhat of a mystery. "Sunita Paul" is listed as a writer for the Weekly Blitz, the tabloid run by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. She also rather coincidentally writes in a number of online publications American Chronicle, Global Politician and Asian Tribunethat also publish Mr. Choudhury's articles. She holds strongly negative views about Bangladesh, and has published articles maliciously claiming Bangladesh to be anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Semitic.
 
On March 30, 2008, "Sunita Paul" published an article in the Asian Tribune entitled "They Hate US-West Too." By "they," she refers to Bangladesh. In the opening sentence of the article, she makes this extraordinary charge: "Bangladesh, although demanding to be a moderate Muslim nation, is in reality a notorious Jew hater and anti West and anti American nation."
She goes on to write that "people of Bangladesh in general are West and US haters and the only reason for them for sending their children to these countries are for mere money making."
Note that she is not pointing towards any particular group or party, she is charging Bangladesh as a country, and all Bangladeshis as "Jew hater and anti West and anti American nation."
 
The thrust of that article is to push Bangladesh to change its policy toward Israel. She questions whether the United States should do business at all with Bangladesh. She writes: "Can we raise a plain question as to whether the Jewish business communities and friends of Israel like United States should patronize Dhaka economically to sharpen and strengthen their anti Semitic and anti US sentiments?"
 
While writing inflammatory articles on Bangladesh, "Sunita Paul" often uses unverifiable sources for her claims, uses unchecked propaganda, and most notoriously, steals from other people's work and claims them as her own.
 
When a journalist is engaged in plagiarismthat is when a journalist makes false claims of authorshipthe remainder of that journalist's work should be viewed with extreme suspicion. Plagiarism is dishonesty. And "Sunita Paul" is a plagiarist. She is a cheat.
 
On February 6, "Sunita Paul" published an article in the online publication American Chronicle with the breathless headline "Ruling party getting set to try Bangladesh Generals." Now, if the claim in the article's headline were true, this would be big news.
 
However, the article was thin on backing up the main charge in the headline. As one reads further through the long article though, one comes across a number of paragraphs that seemed very familiar to this author. For a very good reason. The paragraphs were originally written by me in two October 2007 articles. [The articles, titled"Banking: Junta Edition" and "In Denial" are available at: http://www.e-bangladesh.org/2007/10/page/4/]
"Sunita Paul" copied, word for word, five paragraphs that I had written in 2007 and passed them off as her own writing in 2009. No citation was given, nor did she put the passages in quotations. In other words, she has stolen someone else's words and claimed them as her own. Not only did she plagiarise, she also used copyrighted material without the author's consent.
 
It is clear that "Sunita Paul" is a "journalist" with an agendaan agenda that wants to portray Bangladesh negatively in the West and in the United States. A "journalist" with such a political agenda is no journalist at all. In addition, she is a cheat. Her journalistic ethics are in serious question.
 
Yet, a number of prominent people in Bangladesh, including the leader of the opposition in Parliament, have cited the articles of "Sunita Paul" that fuel unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about the recent massacre at Pilkhana. The same person who wrote malicious propaganda against Bangladesh, is now being given credence in spreading unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that will hamper fair, neutral investigation of the BDR massacre. It should however be clear to everyone that this so-called journalist's agenda is counter to the best interests of the people of Bangladesh.
 
Given the corrosive agenda of "Sunita Paul" and her proven plagiarism, the reader should question her breathless articles on Bangladesh.
 
Mashuqur Rahman is a blogger and a member of the Drishtipat Writers Collective.
 
Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Saturday, April 11, 2009 02:11 AM GMT+06:00  
 




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Interesting article on ULFA movement - some history and present contexts
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[chottala.com] Who is 'Sunita Paul'? by Mashuqur Rahman [The Daily Star]



 
 

The Daily Star

 
Saturday, April 11, 2009
 
Who is 'Sunita Paul'?
 
Mashuqur Rahman
 
SUNITA PAUL" is an "Indian journalist" who has been writing inflammatory articles on Bangladesh in little known foreign online outlets. "Sunita Paul" is also a plagiarista cheat.
"Sunita Paul" has caused quite a stir recently because her articles make extraordinary claims, based on anonymous sources and apparent hearsay, about the political situation in Bangladesh. Extraordinary claims without much factual support require a significant leap of faith by the reader. Whether they should be believed completely depend on her credibility.
The very persona of "Sunita Paul" is somewhat of a mystery. "Sunita Paul" is listed as a writer for the Weekly Blitz, the tabloid run by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. She also rather coincidentally writes in a number of online publications American Chronicle, Global Politician and Asian Tribunethat also publish Mr. Choudhury's articles. She holds strongly negative views about Bangladesh, and has published articles maliciously claiming Bangladesh to be anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Semitic.
 
On March 30, 2008, "Sunita Paul" published an article in the Asian Tribune entitled "They Hate US-West Too." By "they," she refers to Bangladesh. In the opening sentence of the article, she makes this extraordinary charge: "Bangladesh, although demanding to be a moderate Muslim nation, is in reality a notorious Jew hater and anti West and anti American nation."
She goes on to write that "people of Bangladesh in general are West and US haters and the only reason for them for sending their children to these countries are for mere money making."
Note that she is not pointing towards any particular group or party, she is charging Bangladesh as a country, and all Bangladeshis as "Jew hater and anti West and anti American nation."
 
The thrust of that article is to push Bangladesh to change its policy toward Israel. She questions whether the United States should do business at all with Bangladesh. She writes: "Can we raise a plain question as to whether the Jewish business communities and friends of Israel like United States should patronize Dhaka economically to sharpen and strengthen their anti Semitic and anti US sentiments?"
 
While writing inflammatory articles on Bangladesh, "Sunita Paul" often uses unverifiable sources for her claims, uses unchecked propaganda, and most notoriously, steals from other people's work and claims them as her own.
 
When a journalist is engaged in plagiarismthat is when a journalist makes false claims of authorshipthe remainder of that journalist's work should be viewed with extreme suspicion. Plagiarism is dishonesty. And "Sunita Paul" is a plagiarist. She is a cheat.
 
On February 6, "Sunita Paul" published an article in the online publication American Chronicle with the breathless headline "Ruling party getting set to try Bangladesh Generals." Now, if the claim in the article's headline were true, this would be big news.
 
However, the article was thin on backing up the main charge in the headline. As one reads further through the long article though, one comes across a number of paragraphs that seemed very familiar to this author. For a very good reason. The paragraphs were originally written by me in two October 2007 articles. [The articles, titled"Banking: Junta Edition" and "In Denial" are available at: http://www.e-bangladesh.org/2007/10/page/4/]
"Sunita Paul" copied, word for word, five paragraphs that I had written in 2007 and passed them off as her own writing in 2009. No citation was given, nor did she put the passages in quotations. In other words, she has stolen someone else's words and claimed them as her own. Not only did she plagiarise, she also used copyrighted material without the author's consent.
 
It is clear that "Sunita Paul" is a "journalist" with an agendaan agenda that wants to portray Bangladesh negatively in the West and in the United States. A "journalist" with such a political agenda is no journalist at all. In addition, she is a cheat. Her journalistic ethics are in serious question.
 
Yet, a number of prominent people in Bangladesh, including the leader of the opposition in Parliament, have cited the articles of "Sunita Paul" that fuel unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about the recent massacre at Pilkhana. The same person who wrote malicious propaganda against Bangladesh, is now being given credence in spreading unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that will hamper fair, neutral investigation of the BDR massacre. It should however be clear to everyone that this so-called journalist's agenda is counter to the best interests of the people of Bangladesh.
 
Given the corrosive agenda of "Sunita Paul" and her proven plagiarism, the reader should question her breathless articles on Bangladesh.
 
Mashuqur Rahman is a blogger and a member of the Drishtipat Writers Collective.
 
Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Saturday, April 11, 2009 02:11 AM GMT+06:00  
 


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[chottala.com] Fw: [ALOCHONA] Who are behind (funding) BDNEWS24.COM?





--- On Thu, 4/9/09, hasan md <hasan_eu@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: hasan md <hasan_eu@yahoo.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Who are behind (funding) BDNEWS24.COM?
To: hasan_eu@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 8:49 PM

Hi all
 
i was closely watching news treatments, analyses of BD main online real time news service BDNEWS24.com slince last 2.5 years, always found it very biased towards a certain ideology and a particular country  and at the same  so unfriendly towards pro-bangladeshi forces.
i asked several senior journalists of BD to know who are behind BDNEWS24.COM. none of them would be able to give a clear picture of its funding (it is infact running with HUGE budget ), men behind the machne although apparently seen in net, its run by mr taufique imrose khalidi, a former BBC broadcaster. ..
 
mr khalidi in a roundtable advised to cut our Defence Budget, see daily amadershomy 10 april 2009, http://www.amadersh omoy.com/ content/2009/ 04/10/news0939. htm
 
FYI, suman k chakrabarty, chief national correspondent of Indian TV channel CNN-IBN is also a major correspondent (from india) of BDNEWS24.COM. IBN and BNDNEWS24 have joint partnership for indian and world news affairs.
 
mr chakrabarty is a diehard anti-BD and anti-BD army who is continuous portraying BD as cocoon of terror and  her arm force as pro-fundamentalist force, friend of terrors
 just see two of his news 
 
in fact BDNEWS24 always highlights mr chakrabarty news, views, analyses...
we can imagine easily, there is a good link between anti-BD role of sumon k chakrabarty, imrose khalidi.. and the main culprits who do not want our army are  also behind the HUGE funding of BDNEWS24, no doubt....
 
hasan




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