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Monday, May 11, 2009

RE: [chottala.com] In the name of freedom fighters nobody has got any right to do any loot pat of govt property.



Dear Ms. Tazeen,

You misunderstood my view point and It was not "ushkanimuluk" as you told, rather to make cautious. My intention is not political. We were a pioneer of Chatra league at the time when I was an intermediate science student in Chittagong College in 1958 under the banner of Agradoot, which later on became Jatrik. From 1961 to 1966 when we were a Medical student, our Chatra league was entirely different than that of the present Chatra League of lootpat, tenderbaazi and chandabaazi. We were directly under the ideology of our great leader Sk. Mujibur Rahman whom we used to call Mujib Bhai at that time. Our Awami league also at that time was quite different than that of present Awami league after liberation. Presently some fake Awami leagures in the name of freedom fighters claiming their right to take our govt establishment and buildings which I disagree and wrote my comments. In 1975 our great leader lion hearted giant politician Bangabandhu was killed because of this type of Awami Leagures and their attitude which I wanted to point out. My arguments not to convolute our real history and not really political bashing. If you think like that and if you are hurt by my comments, I ask apology for that.

Dowllah.
 


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Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 03:08:08 -0700
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] In the name of freedom fighters nobody has got any right to do any loot pat of govt property.



Loot pat is always unwelcome, whoever does it. But Mr Dowla's note deserves to be rejected because it is presented in an acrimonious fashion, contains misinformation and is essentially propagandist. Mr Dowla's  history of Bangladesh is largely inaccurate. The commentary is really political bashing based on rather questionable argumentation that convolutes our real history.

Bengalis love to find fault with others  in a way to absolve themselves of their own guilt, or that of their own kind. Please do not try to divide the population by playing your psychological tricks. As a former refugee, I can say that the survivors of Pakistani carnage lived modestly and very simply in most instances. It was the job of the soldiers to fight.So, no cheap comparisons please. It does not do justice to our nation of valiant freedom fighters or those that gave it leadership.

Do not tarnish the image of a nation because of the actions of some people. It is like Israel collectively punishing Palestinians because some children threw stones.

In a culture of rumour mongering among Bangladeshis, people forget that Bangabandhu was maligned by some evil motivated people. But at his death, his bank balance was found to be no more than 2 lakhs! As a Bengali I can only be ashamed at the gullibility of our people to fall for rumours and gossip.

A new government has come and new people should rule the country. That should be obvious to all of us. Those chosen must be loyal, reliable and able. The old guard and fossils must go; anyone obstructing good governance and seen not to perform should be fired; and only the very capable and honest people retained. It is important for Bengalis to understand this simple logic. The old guard must find other opportunities in the private sector. If they continue in place, bureaucratic delays will be insurmountable as we have already seen. The government cannot afford this.

The threat of another 1975 is most abhorrent under the circumstances. Members would be wise to refrain from such threats and propaganda.

The moderator should screen the comments to allow only for constructive discussions and deter ushkanimulak comments.

Tazeen



 

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[chottala.com] Iran frees U.S.-born journalist accused of spying



Iran frees U.S.-born journalist accused of spying
Mon May 11, 2009 5:45pm BST
 

* Iranian-American reporter released from Evin jail

* Father says family to return to the United States

* U.S. "heartened" by Roxana Saberi's release - Clinton (Adds U.S. reaction, judiciary spokesman, media watchdog)

By Fredrik Dahl and Hossein Jaseb

TEHRAN, May 11 (Reuters) - U.S.-born journalist Roxana Saberi walked free on Monday after an Iranian appeal court cut her eight-year jail sentence for spying to a suspended two-year term.

Her release resolved a case that had further strained U.S.-Iranian relations, at a time when U.S. President Barack Obama is seeking to reach out to Tehran after three decades of mutual mistrust.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington was heartened by the news, though it still objected to Saberi's espionage conviction.

"She is currently with her family and will be leaving Tehran to return to the United States in the coming days," Clinton told reporters in Washington.

Saberi, a citizen of both the United States and Iran who moved to Iran six years ago, was arrested in January for working in the Islamic Republic after her press credentials had expired.

She was later accused of espionage, a charge that can carry the death sentence, and convicted on April 18.

The United States had said the spying charges were baseless and demanded her immediate release. Tehran does not recognise dual nationality and told Washington not to interfere.

The two countries were already locked in an acrimonious dispute over Iran's nuclear programme, which the West fears is aimed at making arms. Iran says it is to generate electricity.

Obama has offered Iran a fresh start in relations, though Iran says Washington must first show real policy change.

Analysts and diplomats have cautioned against seeing Saberi's arrest as a sign of Iran rejecting Obama's overture, but say her case may have been influenced by it.

"ISLAMIC KINDNESS"

The 32-year-old freelance journalist was released from Tehran's Evin jail, where rights groups say political prisoners are usually held, one day after a closed appeal court hearing.

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki had said her sentence would be reviewed on the basis of "human and Islamic kindness".

"I'm very satisfied and happy about the ruling. We expected her to be freed but not this soon," said her father Reza, 68, who moved to the United States in the early 1970s.

"Roxana is well and is staying at a relative's home tonight ... The exact date of our departure is not clear but we should get ready for our trip to America," he told reporters.

One of Saberi's defence lawyers, Saleh Nikbakht, told the ISNA news agency the court had acquitted her of spying but convicted her under a law covering offences including taking pictures or videos in areas where photography is banned.

She will be banned from doing any reporting work in Iran for five years, said her main lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi.

Judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi told state television that Saberi, who has worked for the BBC and U.S. National Public Radio, had confessed and apologised. "So the court reduced the sentence ... since it was her first offence."

Saberi, a former Miss North Dakota, looked thin and tired at Sunday's hearing. Last week, her father said she had ended a two-week hunger strike and was "very weak". The judiciary denied she had refused food, and said she was in good health.

Reporters Without Borders, which last month said Saberi's conviction was a warning to foreign journalists in Iran ahead of its presidential election in June, welcomed her release.

"The appeal court's decision to free her can be used as a legal precedent for other journalists currently detained in Iran," the Paris-based media watchdog said. It said 14 journalists and bloggers were in detention.

Iran denies Western allegations that it is seeking to stifle dissent. The government says it welcomes constructive criticism and upholds the principle of free speech. (Additional reporting by Hashem Kalantari, Parisa Hafezi and Firouz Sedarat in Tehran, Deborah Charles in Washington; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

http://uk.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUKDAH13833320090511?sp=true

 

 

Saberi's parents have said their daughter never spied for the United States [AFP]

Roxana's father speaks



"We couldn't believe it [when Roxana was convicted]. Roxana is a balanced reporter. She never took sides.

"She never intended to pass any news to any other country that was against the interest of Iran. She hasn't done anything wrong.

"Whatever happened in the courts we don't know. We are happy they have decided to release her.

"There will be some friends around to celebrate but tonight of course we just want her to rest, when we go home we will celebrate."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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[chottala.com] U.S. Soldier Shoots 5 of His Comrades to Death in Iraq



US soldier guns down 5 fellow soldiers in Iraq

AP
US soldier held after five colleagues shot dead in Iraq AFP/Graphic – Map of Baghdad locating US military base Camp Liberty. A US soldier is suspected of opening fire on his …

BAGHDAD – A U.S. soldier opened fire at a counseling center on a U.S. base Monday, killing five fellow soldiers before being taken into custody, the U.S. command and Pentagon officials said.

The shooting occurred at Camp Liberty, a sprawling U.S. base on the western edge of Baghdad near the city's international airport and adjacent to another facility where President Barack Obama visited last month.

A brief U.S. statement said the soldier "suspected of being involved with the shooting" was in custody but gave no further details. Nobody else was hurt, the military said. It was unclear what provoked the shooting.

In Washington, Pentagon officials said the shooting happened at a stress clinic, where troops can go for help with the stresses of combat or personal issues. It was unclear whether those killed were workers at the clinic or were there for counseling. No details were released about the gunman.

"Anytime we lose one of our own, it affects us all," U.S. spokesman Col. John Robinson said. "Our hearts go out to the families and friends of all the service members involved in this terrible tragedy."

Separately, the military announced Monday that a U.S. soldier was also killed a day earlier when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Basra province of southern Baghdad.

The death toll from the Monday shooting was the highest for U.S. personnel in a single attack since April 10, when a suicide truck driver killed five American soldiers with a blast near a police headquarters in Mosul.

Attacks on officers and sergeants, known as fraggings, were not uncommon during the Vietnam war as morale in the ranks sank. However, such attacks are believed to be rare in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2005, Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar was sentenced to death for killing two officers in Kuwait just before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In June 2005, an Army captain and lieutenant were killed when an anti-personnel mine detonated in the window of their room at the U.S. base in Tikrit. National Guard Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez was acquitted in the blast.

Additionally, there have been several incidents recently when gunmen dressed as Iraqi soldiers have opened fire on American troops, including an attack in the northern city of Mosul on May 2 when two soldiers and the gunman were killed.

Also Monday, a senior Iraqi traffic officer was assassinated on his way to work in Baghdad. It was the second attack on a high-ranking traffic police officer in the capital in as many days.

A car cut off Brig. Gen. Abdul-Hussein al-Kadhoumi as he drove through a central square in the capital and a second vehicle pulled up alongside and riddled him with bullets, police said, citing witnesses. Al-Kadhoumi was director of operations for the traffic authority.

The gunmen were armed with pistols equipped with silencers, the police added on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Incidents involving gunmen armed with sophisticated weapons, including silencers, have been on the rise since a string of high-profile robberies in April.

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Associated Press Writer Pauline Jelinek contributed to this report from Washington.

US soldier guns down 5 fellow soldiers in Iraq

San Jose Mercury News - ‎56 minutes ago‎
By ROBERT H. REID AP Writer BAGHDAD—A US soldier opened fire at a counseling center on a US base Monday, killing five fellow soldiers before being taken ...

RAW DATA: Camp Liberty

FOXNews - ‎42 minutes ago‎
Camp Liberty has a chapel, Moral Recreation and Welfare building, PX shoppette, barber shop, Internet cafe, gym and more. Camp Liberty lies northeast of Baghdad International Airport.


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[chottala.com] Where there is FUND, there is BRAC!



Dear Nishat,
I am not sure, when I was in CU Campus for a meeting of Consumer Affairs, one students asked about the NGOs business, she asked why not NGOs taking trade license from Government instead of registration under Social Welfare and others as charity. Your writing is alarming for us. BRAC not an NGO in Bangladesh, it is a model of the world. BRAC may have some limitations, but we proud of it. BRAC model is followed by many countries, specially the NFE is the excellent. For manipulating or mange fund from Government and donors sources, your absolutely rights, donors are also liable for this. Because the donors representatives are feel secured, if they provided grants to well established NGO, who are based in Dhaka with modern equipment and facilities and have huge assets and resources. I try to inform the news to others and what happen in last 7 years in NGO Funding in Bangladesh. A number of consultant groups has developed who are active to negotiating NGOs verses donors and unfair transaction. This is great loss for us. NGOs who are act as alternative for development model are active in wrong game to manage fund. But we have to go forward, if there is any limitations, we should overcome. Peoples are forgetting the role of NGOs, Charity now it treated as business, this is not true!!!!!!!!!!. Last rilling government forces to NGOs becomes corrupted and corrupted NGOs awarded by many ways. As a result many new NGOs seem this may right way. But we should recognized real NGOs who are really working hard for poor and disadvantaged groups. BRAC has many programme to serve the under-served community people. You also mentioned Mr. Rahul Gandi from India visited BRAC recently and appreciated its activities.
 
Thanks again for your interesting comments about NGOs in Bangladesh, we are trying to recover it and refresh the NGO activities. But it is difficult many vested groups are active who are always disturbing us. Many of them are active in NGOs in the name of NGOs and serving their own agenda. We have no internal regulation. ADAB was done before, but last rilling government ban the ADAB.In absence of ADAB many of them dominated and manage fund from Government and external sources and some of them are makes business. I think present Government will not do same mistake. NGOs sector in Bangladesh are trying to ratify the roles and reorganized it.
 
Thanks to all.

S M Nazer Hossain,
EC Member,
Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh(ADAB)
1/E(1st floor) Uttar Adabor, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh
Tel: 880-2-9126358, Fax: 880-2-8117756, 01713110054, 01726757788(director)


--- On Fri, 5/8/09, nishat rana <nishat_@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: nishat rana <nishat_@hotmail.com>
Subject: [khabor.com] Where there is FUND, there is BRAC!
To: "ADAB Chittgaong" <adab.chittagong@yahoo.com>, "khanbar" <khabor@yahoogroups.com>, uttorshuri@yahoogroups.com, "Chotttala" <chottala@yahoogroups.com>, asia_ictpolicy@yahoogroups.com, amin.rana@bdnews24.com, centraldesk@the-editor.net
Cc: bytesforall_readers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, May 8, 2009, 7:20 AM

Where there is FUND, there is BRAC!

 

BRAC is largest NGO in Bangladesh, but BRAC is a brand name of NGO syndication for hiking fund from national and international sources. I was talked a NGO leaders in CU campus about the NGOs cheating with the country in the name of charity, transparency and accountability, they are manipulated the people through making money and business. Today I just mentioned the news in daily star title is "Investigative Journalism Centre launched". This is launched by BRAC under the support from USAID-PROGATI. In my last 2-3 years observation, I found if any fund comes in Bangladesh in areas, BRAC must targets the fund and open a section. If somebody will fund to bricks production BRAC will open a section for this. Just like when last ruling government trying to popularizing the black goats, BRAC was open a project for goat rearing. BRAC University and its many units are open that's ways. Last Caretaker government resume they open Institute of Governance Studies when USAID provided fund for good governance issue.  Like this they have Institute of Education for   ECD, CE, and others. They have some paid scholar like Dr. Jamilur Reza Chowdhury, Advocate Shadin Malik, Dr. Manjur Hasan etc. Most of them uses as kits for making money hunting by the Dr. Fazle Hasan Abed. As you seen Mr. Abed is life time chief executive of BRAC. Now he is Chairperson and they have paid Executive Director Dr. Mahbub Hossain and Aminul Islam. They are only in by name but actual role is plying by Mr. Abed. As we seen last 4-party ruling government resume they recruited Abdul Muyed Chowdhury who was closely associated with the 4-party government. When the resume over new players take sits. This is the culture of BRAC and its democracy. Now The Journalism Training and Research Initiatives (JATRI) is the mission to convinced media and control journalists.  

 

Now we have got more information how the NGOs are controlling and manipulated government. Many of them are seen, after taking power by the current Government BRAC invites Rahul Gandhi to visit their project?, what is the sign? When they are failed nominated their representative is council of minister, they are arranging this game. What we have seen in last 10 years by the BRAC, they trying to purchased Government people like ministers, secretaries and political leaders for hunting money. As a result most of the international fund which is channels through government and non governments they are must managed it. As a result GFATM under Malaria, TB, WASH, Secondary education development projects, ROSC, PEDP-2, Housing grant of Bangladesh Bank, EEF,  garments sectors progarmme etc now under BRAC capture. Last Caretaker government resume they were finalized to take over the responsibilities of Upazila Health Complex in Bangladesh.    

 

This is also very alarming for us, what games are playing by our donors; they are putting all funds to same bottle-BRAC. They feels it is very safe to hand over the fund to BRAC and a few big name, they will got quick reports, response and other benefits. If they finance to other organization which is based in remote places, it is difficult to monitor, get report and site by sites get extra benefit.. They are safe and got result through one AC room to another. As result BRAC and a few controlling whole funds some times says small NGOs have no capacity, capacity only have in BRAC centre. But BRAC and a few big NGOs getting fund from donors in one projects for long time, so that where is the transparency? They are receiving huge amount of money from same time for same projects. They shown one chicks to many others. They are receiving fund by BRAC, BRAC Bank, BRAC University, Arang Milk Factories, Bricks, Fabrics, BRAC Salt, garments industries, real state, Dairy and poultry firm etc many pockets. They have 100 pockets who are entry points to hunting money from various sources. Besides they have many faces who are uses as collectors.

So, now the time to evaluated how many types of window they have open to manipulated peoples money in the name of NGO or charity? Are they charity? or multinational corporate body? They are saying business for charity, but how billon dolor money BRAC need? Is there any statistics how many corporate houses they have developed to hiking international donors. Now we have seen, the donors representative give incentive to BRAC personal to hand over the fund and to secure their job? I have doubt, the BRAC beneficiaries and NGO personnel must react my writing, but I have write it from my patriotic point of view. If we always uses by others for their personal interest, nor we will take action to save our nation.

 

Nishat Rana,

CU    


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