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Incomparable Sachin Dev Burman

Coming out soon -- an extra-ordinary biography in English of music wizard,
Sachin Dev Burman. Written by HQ Chowdhury, a recipient of "SD Burman Award"
(2006) from the Government of Tripura , India , the book contains interesting information covering the entire spectrum of the maestro's life -- from his early days in Comilla to his last days in Bombay .

Also, contains a complete list of Bangla and Hindi songs, year wise along
with the names of lyricists and singers.


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Re: [chottala.com] Bangladesh, 'Basket Case' No More - Wall Street Journal



Is Bangladesh no more Basket of bottomless?
News a few days before is published in Bangladesh New Papers adding  The TITTLE by Irin Khan   "Bangladesh is a Chur & Chamari Desh"
Is it true or Not ???.

--- On Thu, 30/9/10, Syed_Aslam3 <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Syed_Aslam3 <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com>
Subject: [chottala.com] Bangladesh, 'Basket Case' No More - Wall Street Journal
To: "Khobor" <khabor@yahoogroups.com>, "notun Bangladesh" <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>, chottala@yahoogroups.com, "Sonar Bangladesh" <SonarBangladesh@yahoogroups.com>
Received: Thursday, 30 September, 2010, 7:26 AM

 
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Bangladesh, 'Basket Case' No More

Pakistan could learn about economic growth and confronting terrorism from its former eastern province.

By SADANAND DHUME

Not long ago, when you thought of a South Asian country ravaged by floods, governed by bumblers and apparently teetering on the brink of chaos, it wasn't Pakistan that came to mind. That distinction belonged to Bangladesh.
Henry Kissinger famously dubbed it a "basket case" at its birth in 1971, and Bangladesh appeared to work hard to live up to the appellation. For the outside world, much of the country's history can be summed up as a blur of political protests and natural disasters punctuated by outbursts of jihadist violence and the occasional military coup.
No longer. At a reception Friday for world leaders attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, President Barack Obama congratulated Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed for receiving a prestigious U.N. award earlier in the week. Bangladesh was one of six countries in Asia and Africa feted for its progress toward achieving its Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets that seek to eradicate extreme poverty and boost health, education and the status of women world-wide by 2015.
Bangladesh has much to be proud of. Its economy has grown at nearly 6% a year over the past three years. The country exported $12.3 billion worth of garments last year, making it fourth in the world behind China, the EU and Turkey. Against the odds, Bangladesh has curbed population growth. Today the average Bangladeshi woman bears fewer than three children in her lifetime, down from more than six in the 1970s.
The country's leading NGOs—most famously the microcredit pioneer Grameen Bank—have earned a global reputation. Relations with India are on a high. In August, Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee signed off on a $1 billion soft loan for Bangladeshi infrastructure development, the largest such loan in India's history.
dhumebanglaAssociated Press
Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters in New York.
Perhaps most strikingly, Bangladesh—the world's third most populous Muslim-majority country after Indonesia and Pakistan—has shown a willingness to confront both terrorism and the radical Islamic ideology that underpins it. Since taking office in 2009, the Awami League-led government has arrested local members of the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, the al Qaeda affiliate Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami-Bangladesh, and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a domestic outfit responsible for a wave of bombings in 2005.
In July, the Supreme Court struck down a 31-year-old constitutional amendment and restored Bangladesh to its founding status as a secular republic. The government has banned the writings of the radical Islamic ideologue Abul Ala Maududi (1903-79), founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the subcontinent's most influential Islamist organization. Maududi regarded warfare for the faith as an exalted form of piety and encouraged the subjugation of women and non-Muslims. A long-awaited war crimes tribunal will try senior Jamaat-e-Islami figures implicated in mass murder during Bangladesh's bloody secession from Pakistan.
Of course, it will take more than a burst of entrepreneurial energy and political purpose before Bangladesh turns the corner for good. The long-running feud between Prime Minister Wazed and her main rival, Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Khaleda Zia, makes that of the Hatfields and McCoys look benign by comparison. The war of ideas against the country's plethora of Islamist groups requires the kind of sustained pressure that Dhaka has been unable to apply in the past. And garment exports notwithstanding, the economy remains shallow.
Deputy Editorial Page Editor Bret Stephens analyzes the latest strikes.
Despite these caveats, Bangladesh ought to be held up as a role model, especially for the subcontinent's other Muslim-majority state. Arguably no two countries in the region share as much in common as Pakistan and Bangladesh, two wings of the same country between 1947 and 1971. With 171 million people and 164 million people, respectively, they are the world's sixth and seventh most populous countries. Both have alternated between civilian and military rule. In terms of culture, both layer Islam over an older Indic base.
Yet when it comes to government policies and national identity, the two countries diverge sharply. As a percentage of gross domestic product, Islamabad spends more on its soldiers than on its school teachers; Dhaka does the opposite. In foreign policy, Pakistan seeks to subdue Afghanistan and wrest control of Indian Kashmir. Bangladesh, especially under the current dispensation, prefers cooperation to confrontation with its neighbors.
Perhaps most importantly, Bangladesh appears comfortable in its own skin: politically secular, religiously Muslim and culturally Bengali. Bangladeshis celebrate the poetry, film and literature of Hindus and Muslims equally. With Pakistanis it's more complicated. The man on the street displays the same cultural openness as his Bangladeshi counterpart, but Pakistan also houses a vast religious and military establishment that seeks to hold the country together by using triple-distilled Islam and hatred toward India as glue.
In a way their best known national heroes sum up the two country's personalities. For Bangladesh, it's Grameen Bank's Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, synonymous with small loans to village women. For Pakistan: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue nuclear scientist who peddled contraband technology to Libya, Iran and North Korea.
Nearly 40 years ago, only the most reckless optimist would have bet on flood-prone, war-ravaged Bangladesh over relatively stable and prosperous Pakistan. But with a higher growth rate, a lower birth rate, and a more internationally competitive economy, yesterday's basket case may have the last laugh.
 
Sep 28, 2010 ... Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday made an appeal in New York to make Bangla an official United Nations language in ...
blogs.wsj.com/.../2010/.../bangla-as-the-uns-next-official-language/ - Cached
Sep 25, 2010 ... Bangladesh - Detailed Bangladesh information, including breaking news, analysis, photos, video and infographics from the WSJ.
topics.wsj.com/.../Bangladesh/.../ead31e4a68c64b5b98f26a9b4eb25685 - Cached
 

 

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Re: [chottala.com] Fw: carrying any kind of SEEDS



Inam
 Thnx for enriching my knowledge regarding the stupid law of gulf countries.....
 
Hasan



From: inam haque <haque_i@yahoo.com>
To: chottala <chottala@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, September 23, 2010 11:11:51 AM
Subject: [chottala.com] Fw: carrying any kind of SEEDS

 

FYI,

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Sent: Thu, September 23, 2010 6:50:57 AM
Subject: carrying any kind of SEEDS

Respected Sirs, Colleagues, Friends,

Yesterday only I  came to know of a case from a friend of mine which is very scary. One of his friends was traveling to UK via Dubai . Unfortunately he was carrying a packet of Khas Khas(Poppy Seed) which is a commonly used spice in some Indian curries and sweets. Khas Khas is also known as poppy seed which can be sprouted to grow narcotics (afeem etc.).

This innocent person did not know that recently the laws in UAE and other Gulf countries have been revised and carrying Khas Khas is punishable with minimum 20 years of imprisonment or even worse with death penalty. Currently, the person is in a jail in Dubai for the last two weeks. His friends are frantically trying hard for his release but are finding that this has become a very very serious case. Lawyers are asking huge fees amounting to AED 100,000 even to appear in the court to plead for his innocence.

Please forward this email to all you know specially in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh . They should know the seriousness of this matter and should never ever carry even minutest quantities of the following items when traveling to Gulf countries:

1. Khas Khas whether raw, roasted or cooked.
2. Paan
3. Beetle nut (supari and its products, e.g. Paan Parag etc.)

The penalties are very severe and it could destroy the life of an innocent person.

I appeal you to create the awareness by forwarding this email to all you know.

Thanks and Best Regards



With Warmest Regards,

Md Mahbubul Haq Khan
Wing Commander (Retd) 

Managing Director

AVIATION SUPPORT LIMITED





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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Re: [chottala.com] Warm Wishes



Thanks Dr. Sirajuddowllah for your mail.

Warm personal wishes.

Mannan

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM, siraj uddowllah <siraj_58@hotmail.com> wrote:
 

Thanks Prof. Mannan for your reply. I was also in Chittagong as my first posting as Lecturer of Pharmacology in Chittagong Medical College at that time and I can still remember that eventful night of March 26 very well.  Bye and take care. Regards.
Dr. Siraj Uddowllah (Dowllah).

 


Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:25:47 -0700
Subject: Re: FW: [chottala.com] Warm Wishes
From: abman1971@gmail.com
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com; siraj_58@hotmail.com

Thanks Dr. Sirajuddowllah for your mail. Fortunatley regarding Zia's  declaration I was very much in Chittagong in that eventful March , and my first involvment with muktijuddoho was with a faction of his break away unit. I do not like to play fiddle with history and last of all enter into an unncessary debate at this stage about  something even which Zia did not lay a claim.
 
Take care and have a nice day.
 
 
Warm Wishes.
 
Mannan

 
On 9/18/10, siraj uddowllah <siraj_58@hotmail.com> wrote:
 

Dear Prof. Abdul Mannan,

Your writing in "The daily Jugantar" on 18th Sept, 2010 is highly appreciated but I could not appreciate your subsiding the truth about Ziaur Rahman's contribution by his first declaration of independence on 26th March from Kalur Ghat Radio station.

No doubt Gen. Zia was an unknown Major at that time but you cannot refuse and try to ignore him as a first declarer of independence in that crucial moment when the then East Pakistan was suddenly plan wise attacked from all sides by the brute Pakistani armies killing our unarmed civilians and brush firing our sleeping Bengal Regiment armies in the army barrack at a time.

People may make so many untrue self-made stories by distorting the histories about that night of 26th March, but being a professor you should be idealistic and should not disregard the actual facts.

I will be happy if instead of becoming biased you can express the truth boldly. Best of regards.

Dowllah (Dr. Siraj Uddowllah), Canada.

 

 


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From: abman1971@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:50:23 -0700
Subject: [chottala.com] Warm Wishes

 
A feature by me appears in today's Jugantor. It is on the recent visit of PM to Chittagong. The link is given below. Feedback requested.

Thanks.

Have a nice day.

Mannan


http://www.jugantor.info/enews/issue/2010/09/18/news0974.php
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Professor
School of Business
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
House # 56, Road # 4/A
Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1209
Bangladesh.
BDT=GMT +6
Working Days Sunday-Thursday
E-mail: abman1971@gmail.com
 http://www.ulab.edu.bd

 





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Abdul Mannan
Professor
School of Business
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
House # 56, Road # 4/A
Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1209
Bangladesh.
BDT=GMT +6
Working Days Sunday-Thursday
E-mail: abman1971@gmail.com
http://www.ulab.edu.bd



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Abdul Mannan
Professor
School of Business
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
House # 56, Road # 4/A
Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1209
Bangladesh.
BDT=GMT +6
Working Days Sunday-Thursday
E-mail: abman1971@gmail.com
 http://www.ulab.edu.bd


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[chottala.com] Bangladesh, 'Basket Case' No More - Wall Street Journal



  • SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
  • Bangladesh, 'Basket Case' No More

    Pakistan could learn about economic growth and confronting terrorism from its former eastern province.

    By SADANAND DHUME

    Not long ago, when you thought of a South Asian country ravaged by floods, governed by bumblers and apparently teetering on the brink of chaos, it wasn't Pakistan that came to mind. That distinction belonged to Bangladesh.

    Henry Kissinger famously dubbed it a "basket case" at its birth in 1971, and Bangladesh appeared to work hard to live up to the appellation. For the outside world, much of the country's history can be summed up as a blur of political protests and natural disasters punctuated by outbursts of jihadist violence and the occasional military coup.

    No longer. At a reception Friday for world leaders attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, President Barack Obama congratulated Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed for receiving a prestigious U.N. award earlier in the week. Bangladesh was one of six countries in Asia and Africa feted for its progress toward achieving its Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets that seek to eradicate extreme poverty and boost health, education and the status of women world-wide by 2015.

    Bangladesh has much to be proud of. Its economy has grown at nearly 6% a year over the past three years. The country exported $12.3 billion worth of garments last year, making it fourth in the world behind China, the EU and Turkey. Against the odds, Bangladesh has curbed population growth. Today the average Bangladeshi woman bears fewer than three children in her lifetime, down from more than six in the 1970s.

    The country's leading NGOs—most famously the microcredit pioneer Grameen Bank—have earned a global reputation. Relations with India are on a high. In August, Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee signed off on a $1 billion soft loan for Bangladeshi infrastructure development, the largest such loan in India's history.

    dhumebanglaAssociated Press

    Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters in New York.

    Perhaps most strikingly, Bangladesh—the world's third most populous Muslim-majority country after Indonesia and Pakistan—has shown a willingness to confront both terrorism and the radical Islamic ideology that underpins it. Since taking office in 2009, the Awami League-led government has arrested local members of the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, the al Qaeda affiliate Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami-Bangladesh, and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a domestic outfit responsible for a wave of bombings in 2005.

    In July, the Supreme Court struck down a 31-year-old constitutional amendment and restored Bangladesh to its founding status as a secular republic. The government has banned the writings of the radical Islamic ideologue Abul Ala Maududi (1903-79), founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the subcontinent's most influential Islamist organization. Maududi regarded warfare for the faith as an exalted form of piety and encouraged the subjugation of women and non-Muslims. A long-awaited war crimes tribunal will try senior Jamaat-e-Islami figures implicated in mass murder during Bangladesh's bloody secession from Pakistan.

    Of course, it will take more than a burst of entrepreneurial energy and political purpose before Bangladesh turns the corner for good. The long-running feud between Prime Minister Wazed and her main rival, Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Khaleda Zia, makes that of the Hatfields and McCoys look benign by comparison. The war of ideas against the country's plethora of Islamist groups requires the kind of sustained pressure that Dhaka has been unable to apply in the past. And garment exports notwithstanding, the economy remains shallow.

    Deputy Editorial Page Editor Bret Stephens analyzes the latest strikes.

    Despite these caveats, Bangladesh ought to be held up as a role model, especially for the subcontinent's other Muslim-majority state. Arguably no two countries in the region share as much in common as Pakistan and Bangladesh, two wings of the same country between 1947 and 1971. With 171 million people and 164 million people, respectively, they are the world's sixth and seventh most populous countries. Both have alternated between civilian and military rule. In terms of culture, both layer Islam over an older Indic base.

    Yet when it comes to government policies and national identity, the two countries diverge sharply. As a percentage of gross domestic product, Islamabad spends more on its soldiers than on its school teachers; Dhaka does the opposite. In foreign policy, Pakistan seeks to subdue Afghanistan and wrest control of Indian Kashmir. Bangladesh, especially under the current dispensation, prefers cooperation to confrontation with its neighbors.

    Perhaps most importantly, Bangladesh appears comfortable in its own skin: politically secular, religiously Muslim and culturally Bengali. Bangladeshis celebrate the poetry, film and literature of Hindus and Muslims equally. With Pakistanis it's more complicated. The man on the street displays the same cultural openness as his Bangladeshi counterpart, but Pakistan also houses a vast religious and military establishment that seeks to hold the country together by using triple-distilled Islam and hatred toward India as glue.

    In a way their best known national heroes sum up the two country's personalities. For Bangladesh, it's Grameen Bank's Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, synonymous with small loans to village women. For Pakistan: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue nuclear scientist who peddled contraband technology to Libya, Iran and North Korea.

    Nearly 40 years ago, only the most reckless optimist would have bet on flood-prone, war-ravaged Bangladesh over relatively stable and prosperous Pakistan. But with a higher growth rate, a lower birth rate, and a more internationally competitive economy, yesterday's basket case may have the last laugh.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575519330896471058.html

     

    Bangla as the UN's Next Official Language? - India Real Time - WSJ

    Sep 28, 2010 ... Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday made an appeal in New York to make Bangla an official United Nations language in ...
    blogs.wsj.com/.../2010/.../bangla-as-the-uns-next-official-language/ - Cached

    Bangladesh - Information, News and Pictures - WSJ.com

    Sep 25, 2010 ... Bangladesh - Detailed Bangladesh information, including breaking news, analysis, photos, video and infographics from the WSJ.
    topics.wsj.com/.../Bangladesh/.../ead31e4a68c64b5b98f26a9b4eb25685 - Cached

    http://topics.wsj.com/subject/b/Bangladesh/1909/photos/ead31e4a68c64b5b98f26a9b4eb25685

     



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    Tuesday, September 28, 2010

    [chottala.com] Fw: CAB Chittagong City President Afasar Khan Died: CAB Chittagong express Deep shock! [1 Attachment]

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    Press Release

    CAB Chittagong City President Afasar Khan Died: CAB Chittagong express Deep shock!

     

    Consumer Rights Activist and Eminent Worker, President District Social Enterprenuer Council and Chittgaong City Unit  President of Consumer Association of Bangladesh has died 26th September evening at his residence and feel heart disease and later passes away. Late Afsar Khan has been worked as Branch Manager of state own Pubali Bank ltd. Late Afsar Khan has contributed to the liberation war and democratic movement at 90th, consumer & citizen rights movement in Chittagong.  In a condolence message of CAB Chittagong Divisional President S M Nazer Hossain express deep shocked and sorrow to his family and pray for departure soul. In his condolence massage he says county has lost a real human rights activist and organizer of consumerism movement in Chittgaong, Bangladesh. This is a great loss for the nation and consumerism movement in Bangladesh. He also express Bangladesh consumerism is passing a critical movement, his absence is not recoverable in consumer movement.

     

     

    Mr. Subrata Kr Bala

    DPO, CAB Chittagong

    S M Nazer Hossain,
    Central 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)


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    [chottala.com] CIA'S NEW SECRET ARMY



     
     
    DEJA VU - CIA'S NEW SECRET ARMY
     
    by Eric Margolis | September 27, 2010 - 10:57am
    Revelations the US Central Intelligence Agency is operating a secret, 3,000-man Afghan mercenary force whose mission is assassinating Taliban and al-Qaida fighters has caused a major stir in the United States.
    This dramatic report comes in an authoritative new book, "Obama's Wars," by investigative reporter of Watergate fame, Bob Woodward. He has long enjoyed privileged access to the White House. 
     
    The US armed, paid and directed hunter-killer force was set up to operate inside Pakistan, where US troops are officially not allowed to go. The mercenaries are mostly Afghan Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazara – all traditional enemies of the majority Pashtun – as well as renegades, common criminals, and mercenaries.  
     
    Their raids into Afghanistan's tribal territory are sometimes coordinated with CIA's intensifying drone attacks on Pakistani tribesmen that are causing heavy civilian casualties. 
     
    CIA also runs its own secret militias in southern Afghanistan and, reportedly, in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
     
    To what degree, if any, CIA's killer units cooperate with US Special Operations Forces, who have the same assassination mission, is unknown. CIA's  assassination campaign in Afghanistan and Pakistan is based on the agency's successful campaign in Iraq. 
     
    These Afghan guns for hire are richly rewarded by local standards and boast of high enemy body counts. Neither the US-installed Afghan government in Kabul or Pakistan's government has any control over these paramilitary forces.
     
    Crimes,  atrocities and mistaken killings committed by CIA's Afghan mercenaries go unreported and unpunished. They are a law unto themselves, with no apparent links to the US military command in Afghanistan. In addition, various other groups of US mercenaries and assassins from private "contractors" like the former Blackwater are also operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
     
    The result is a dangerous, confusing melee of hired gunmen, US special forces, militias and government troops – an Afghan/Pakistani version of America's wild Dodge City.
     
    No one should be surprised by the news that US-led mercenaries are crossing into Pakistan and killing Pakistani Pashtun tribesmen as well as Taliban and even an occasional al-Qaida member. This writer has received reports of the hunter-killer force for years. It's an open secret in Islamabad and Kabul. 
     
    Pakistan's government has turned a blind eye, or even quietly approved US-led troops violating its sovereignty and assassinating its citizens. Islamabad  also permits US drones to stage lethal attacks across the tribal zones of northwest Pakistan without any prior approval.     
     
    In fact, the US has a long record of using mercenaries in its wars.
     
    During the Vietnam War, CIA created mercenary forces of Hmong and Meo mountain tribesmen( Operation Hotfoot) and ethnic Chinese Nungs to hunt and kill Vietcong cadres. 
     
    They formed part of CIA's notorious Phoenix Operation that reportedly assassinated some 26,000 Communist cadres and sympathizers.
     
    CIA mercenaries were also used during the 1980's in Nicaragua and El Salvador's brutal conflict between rightists  and Marxist rebels.   El Salvador's ruthless death squads were highly effective in liquidating leftists, as I saw while covering these conflicts 
     
    The model of El Salvador's death squads was transposed to Iraq, where mercenaries, criminals and renegades were used to liquidate Sunni resistance groups. 
     
    The Soviets also used similar tactics during their occupation of Afghanistan from 1979-1989. Gangs of ferocious Uzbek mercenaries know as "Jowzjani" were sent to slaughter Pashtuns resisting Soviet occupation. Other gangs of Tajik and Uzbek fighters were employed by Moscow to stir ethnic discord.  
     
    Concern is growing in the United States over CIA's rapidly increasing paramilitary role in Afghanistan and Iraq – to which Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda and West Africa are now being added.         
     
    Many intelligence professionals warn that CIA's primary role of providing unbiased intelligence to the president is being undermined by its growing combat mission. Once your men and "assets" are involve in assassinations and fighting, it's very difficult to remain objective, detached and neutral. The US State Department is also taking on a paramilitary role in Iraq, risking the same clouding of its judgment. 
     
    The US military is highly displeased by CIA's paramilitary role, accusing the agency of being "cowboys" and "armchair warriors."  Some veteran CIA staff are also dismayed,  claiming their job is to think, not to kill.  
     
    But funds are flowing to CIA's warriors. Running gunmen in Pakistan is the agency's new, hot assignment.  Certainly more sexy than writing reports.
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    copyright  Eric S. Margolis 2010
    About author

    Eric Margolis is a columnist for the Toronto Sun. His web site is foreigncorrespondent.com.

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