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Bombs explode across Bangladesh

Kid_Eternity

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More than 50 people have been injured in a series of simultaneous bomb blasts across Bangladesh.

Police say about 100 explosions took place in some 50 cities and towns across the country including the capital Dhaka and Chittagong.

They are said to have taken place in front of government buildings, markets, press clubs and court premises.

An outlawed Islamic group, Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, says it carried out the attacks.
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100 explosions in 50 cities?! :eek:
 
Mrs Magpie said:
Why have you used a 'cool' icon, K E?

You mean the afro guy icon? Just noticed, I always use it and click it without thinking. To be clear I am in no way implying that I think these bombings are cool, justified or a good thing.
 
spring-peeper said:
I'm sorry if I'm being a bit thick, but why Bangladesh?
Leaflets have been distributed all over saying, basically, 'Bush and Blair out of Islamic countires, return Bangladesh to Islamic control'.

Oh dear.
 
DexterTCN said:
Leaflets have been distributed all over saying, basically, 'Bush and Blair out of Islamic countires, return Bangladesh to Islamic control'.

Oh dear.

So, to save their country from the evils of Christianity, they bomb their own citizens.

:head shaking in disbelief icon:

Oh, that makes total sense.

Idiots!!!
 
300 bombs that prove utterly ineffective aside from bogging down traffic and scaring children. What total fucking jerks!
 
spring-peeper said:
I'm sorry if I'm being a bit thick, but why Bangladesh?

Jamatul Mujahideen (the group who carried out the attack) haven't much to do with AQ - they want an Islamic state in Bangladesh. They've carried out loads of attacks in the past. Most Bangladeshis are moderate and want nothing to do with it.
 
Mears was getting all enthusiastic about Bangladesh. Trouble has been brewing there for some time. If you want to look for a reason it's those nice boys across the border drinking Johnny Walker Black in the ISI offices.
 
but the intention would not have been to kill, or probably injure would it, but to intimidate, to make a show of power, to bring about discussion, and i guess for the long run, to present two choices:

bush and his gang (that may come to be interpreted as including the bangladeshi government)

or these guys and their islamic state.

its something i've been wondering about for a while - how popular have terrorist campaigns been in the past, amongst the communities they are supposed to be 'representing'? i know most palestinians support attacks on the israeli army, and i think last i saw was about 40/40 (20 don't know) on attacking israeli civilians.

i think al queda has been losing support recently in the muslim countries, which was being read as a reaction to the bombs in iraq, and the impact on civilians/ muslims (don't know how an attack on iraqi cops would go down with islamists in eygpt or wherever?).

anyone got more insight into these things?
 
Bangladesh? democracy? Cant quite see that

Well said M. Oi "Mears was getting all enthusiastic about Bangladesh. Trouble has been brewing there for some time. If you want to look for a reason it's those nice boys across the border drinking Johnny Walker Black in the ISI offices."
Its a country where women who have been raped are imprisonned for years for their own safety, a backward vicious place where the ruling elite line their pockets and ensure that the porr are kept poor, the starving continue to starve and Ignorance has attained almost God like stature.
The ISI inspired ructions include persecution of the Hindu minority, direct Govt support for both the ULFA Assamese "liberation" movement, notable primarily for their property development schemes in Bangladesh and their murder, kidnap, extortion and infrastrucutre wrecking in India and of all people they half wits who want to swallow up Manipur, but are also dedicated to "Freeing" their land of Bangladeshi migrants, the Bodo Liberation Front- just another group of Fuedal hardmen who can con dersperate villagers - a situation replicated in the form of the Bangla Govt
Bangladesh is desperately poor and desperately desperate, easy prey to the trickle of Sadi cash that gets there, as opposed to the virtual avalanche that has reached Pakistan. They may not like the comparison, but they are headed doen the Pak path, they would even celebrate the anniverary of Tagores birth so twisted has the place bcome.
It really is tragic, but should come as no real surprise
 
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