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Jewish people vs Muslim people : Who are smarter?

2009-01-15T13:57:00.000-08:00

Demographics:
o World Jewish Population. 14 million
o Distribution: 7 m in America
5 m in Asia
2 m in Europe
100 thousand in Africa
o World Muslim Population: 1.5 billion
o Distribution: 1 billion in Asia/Mid-East
400 M in Africa
44 M in Europe
6 M in the Americas
o Every fifth human being is a Muslim.
o For every single Hindu there are two Muslims
o For every Buddhist there are two Muslims
o For every Jew there are 107 Muslims
o Yet the 14 million Jews are more powerful than the entire 1.5 billion Muslims
Here are some of the reasons.

Movers of Current History
o Albert Einstein Jewish
o Sigmund Freud Jewish
o Karl Marx Jewish
o Paul Samuelson Jewish
o Milton Friedman Jewish

Medical Milestones
o Vaccinating Needle: Benjamin Ruben Jewish
o Polio Vaccine Jonas Salk Jewish
o Leukaemia Drug Gertrude Elion Jewish
o Hepatitis B Baruch Blumberg Jewish
o Syphilis Drug Paul Ehrlich Jewish
o Neuro muscular Elie Metchnikoff Jewish
o Endocrinology Andrew Schally Jewish
o Cognitive therapy. Aaron Beck Jewish
o Contraceptive Pill Gregory Pincus Jewish
o Understanding of Human Eye. G. Wald Jewish
o Embryology. Stanley Cohen Jewish
o Kidney Dialysis Willem Kloffcame Jewish

Nobel Prize Winners
o In the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 180 Nobel prizes whilst 1.5 billion Muslims have contributed only 3 Nobel winners

Inventions that changed History
o Micro- Processing Chip. Stanley Mezor Jewish
o Nuclear Chain Reactor Leo Sziland Jewish
o Optical Fibre Cable Peter Schultz Jewish
o Traffic Lights Charles Adler Jewish
o Stainless Steel Benno Strauss Jewish
o Sound Movies Isador Kisee Jewish
o Telephone Microphone Emile Berliner Jewish
o Video Tape Recorder Charles Ginsburg Jewish

Influential Global Business
o Polo Ralph Lauren Jewish
o Coca Cola Jewish
o Levi's Jeans Levi Strauss Jewish
o Sawbuck's Howard Schultz Jewish
o Google Sergey Brin Jewish
o Dell Computers Michael Dell Jewish
o Oracle Larry Ellison Jewish
o DKNY Donna Karan Jewish
o Baskin & Robbins Irv Robbins Jewish
o Dunkin Donuts Bill Rosenberg Jewish

Influential Intellectuals/ Politicians
o Henry Kissinger , US Sec of State Jewish
o Richard Levin, PresidentYaleUniver sity Jewish
o Alan Greenspan , US Federal Reserve Jewish
o Joseph Lieberman Jewish
o Madeleine Albright , US Sec of State Jewish
o CasperWeinberger , US Sec of Defence Jewish
o Maxim Litvinov , USSR Foreign Minister Jewish
o DavidMarshal , Singapore Chief Minister Jewish
o Isaacs Isaacs, Gov-GenAustralia Jewish
o Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman Jewish
o Yevgeny Primakov, Russian PM Jewish
o Barry Goldwater , US Politician Jewish
o Jorge Sampaio, President Portugal Jewish
o Herb Gray, Canadian Deputy - PM Jewish
o Pierre Mendes, French PM Jewish
o Michael Howard, British Home Sec. Jewish
o Bruno Kriesky, Austrian Chancellor Jewish
o Robert Rubin , US Sec of Treasury Jewish

Global Media Influential
o Wolf Blitzer, CNN Jewish
o Barbara Walters ABC News Jewish
o EugeneMeyer , Washington Post Jewish
o Henry Grunwald, Time Magazine Jewish
o Katherine Graham , Washington Post Jewish
o Joseph Lelyeld, New York Times Jewish
o Max Frankel, New York Times Jewish

Global Philanthropists
o George Soros Jewish
o Walter Annenberg Jewish

Why are they powerful? why are Muslims powerless?
Here's another reason. We have lost the capacity to produce knowledge.

o In the entire Muslim World (57 Muslim Countries) there are only 500 universities.
o In USA alone, 5,758 universities
o In India alone, 8,407 universities
o Not one university in the entire Islamic World features in the Top 500 Ranking Universities of the World
o Literacy in the Christian World 90%
o Literacy in the Muslim World 40%
o 15 Christian majority-countries, literacy rate 100%
o Muslim majority - countries , None
o 98% in Christian countries completed primary
o Only 50% in Muslim countries completed primary.
o 40% in Christian countries attended university
o In Muslim countries a dismal 2% attended.
o Muslim majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims
o The USA has 5000 per million
o The Christian world 1000 technicians per million.
o Entire Arab World only 50 technicians per million.
o Muslim World spends on research/developmen t 0.2% of GDP
o Christian World spends 5 % of GDP

Conclusion.
o The Muslim World lacks the capacity to produce knowledge.

Another way of testing the degree of knowledge is the degree of diffusing knowledge.

o Pakistan 23 daily newspapers per 1000 citizens
o Singapore 460 per 1000 citizens.
o In UK book titles per million is 2000
o In Egypt book titles per million is only 17

Conclusion.
o Muslim World is failing to diffuse knowledge

Applying Knowledge is another such test.
o Exports of high tech products from Pakistan is 0.9% of its exports.
o In Saudi Arabia is 0.2%
o Kuwait , Morocco and Algeria 0.3%
o Singapore alone is 68%

Conclusion.
o Muslim World is failing to apply knowledge.

What do you conclude? no need to tell the figures are speaking themselves very loudly we are unable to listen

Transliteration : When in Bangla?

2008-04-22T06:07:00.001-07:00

Google recently added four more Indian languages in transliteration mode for blogger.com/blogspot.com blogs. So, as a whole it became 5 of them. Hindi was the only language in blogspot which was default language if transliteration is enabled. This tool will help blogging in Hindi, Kannada, Malaylam, Tamil & Telugu easier for even novice bloggers.

It is a matter of regret that we still didn't succeed adding our language Bangla in the list. Had this been done we could just write "Aami Tomake Bhalobaasi" to automatically show this –

Some of the beloved sons of Bangladesh started blogging in Bangla like www.somewhereinblog.net and www.sachalayatan.com . But we really need to add the aid to blogspot to let people write bangla in their blogs in this highly popular blogging engine.

Phishing lines more clever, more prevalent

2008-04-20T14:50:00.001-07:00

By John Wilkens

PHISHING LINE

Fishing is all about tricking the prey into taking a bite at something it thinks is real. So is phishing.

Many of us have seen the bait float past in recent years. It arrives via e-mail, with an official-looking logo from a bank or credit union or retail company:

"We recently reviewed your account, and suspect it has been accessed by an unauthorized third party. As a result, your account has been frozen. To regain access, please take these steps ...

Our Technical Services Department has installed new security software. To upgrade your account, please do the following ...

There is a pending charge on your account. If you dispute this charge, you must ... "

The e-mail then instructs you to click on a link that will take you to a Web site - again, very official looking - where you're asked to log-in with your password, verify your date of birth and social security number, and so on.

Take the bait and you're well on your way to having your identity stolen, a potentially costly and time-consuming aggravation.

Financial institutions, government agencies, computer experts and the media have been warning people about phishing for several years. There's even a global consortium, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, to combat the problem.

But it persists. A record 20,109 unique phishing "attacks" - each involving e-mail sent to thousands of potential victims - were reported in May to the Anti-Phishing Working Group. That was up from 17,490 attacks in April.

About 80 percent of the May attacks involved attempts to mimic e-mail from 20 major "brand" companies, such as Bank of America, Washington Mutual, Chase Manhattan, PayPal and eBay. (In all, a record 137 brands were "hijacked" in May.)

Paul Stephens, a policy analyst with the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a consumer-protection agency, said phishers use well-known companies because more people are likely to have relationships with those firms, and therefore are more likely to take the bait.

"If enough e-mails go out, chances are they'll hit you with something that seems like it belongs to you," he said. "They just keep getting more and more clever."

Peter Cassidy, secretary general at the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which is based in Cambridge, Mass., said "what keeps us up at night" is the increasing use of "crimeware" by identity thieves.

"Crimeware" is a tracking program that gets secretly installed on a computer when the victim clicks on a link in a phishing e-mail and is directed to a fraudulent Web site. The tracking program enables thieves to learn passwords and account numbers when the victim later visits legitimate sites.

Cassidy said the best way to prevent being phished is "to use all that stuff people have been yelling at you about for years: anti-virus programs, spyware blockers, firewalls. They really matter now. And make sure they're updated."

Other tips:

- Be wary of e-mail with urgent requests for personal financial information. Call the company on the telephone to verify that the e-mail is legitimate.

- Be careful using links in e-mail to get to Web pages, especially those involving financial accounts. Use your Web browser to make sure the site is genuine.

- Always make sure you're using a secure Web site when transmitting credit card numbers or account information - look for "https://" in the address bar, not just "http," and look for the padlock icon in the lower right corner.

- Regularly check your bank and credit-card statements to make sure transactions are legitimate.

More information is available from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (antiphishing.org) and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (privacyrights.org). To test your phishing IQ, Mailfrontier, a computer security company, offers a quiz at survey.mailfrontier.com/survey.

JAMA’ATUL MUJAHIDEEN BANGLADESH (JMB) -- A Profile

2007-09-03T13:13:00.001-07:00

Supriya Singh
Research Assistant
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies

Background
Credited for carrying out the first suicide attack, in a country viewed as a moderate Islamic state, Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has started a new chapter in the history of extremism in Bangladesh. Relatively newly formed, JMB is not a pan Islamic terrorist organization like the al-Qaeda and atleast for the time being, its activities are limited to Bangladesh.

JMB was formed in 1998 in Palampur in Dhaka division of Bangladesh. Though the exact date of its formation is not known, it became prominent on 20 May 2002 when eight of its members were arrested in Parbatipur in Dinajpur district along with 25 petrol bombs and documents detailing the activities of the organization. They were later released on bail and the investigation was stalled as the case documents went missing in a 'mysterious' fire at the Parbatipur police station in 2003.

The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Ahle Hadith Andolan Bangladesh (AHAB), Ahle Hadith Jubo Shangha, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihadi-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network.

Under mounting pressure from Awami League and the secularists in Bangladesh, JMB was proscribed by the government on 23 February 2005. The catalyst for this crackdown was a donor The catalyst for this crackdown was a donor meeting in Washington attended by representatives from the United States, United Nations, European Union and World Bank. They had expressed concerns over increasing extremist activities in Bangladesh and indicated at the possibility of suspending funds to the aid dependent nation if it failed to cap the spiralling violence.

JMB has been linked to various extremist groups in Bangladesh, the most prominent being the Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB) or 'Awakened Muslim Masses'. It is believed that JMJB was formed as JMB but publicly started calling itself as the JMJB after a gunfight between its cadres and the police at a secret training camp in Khetlal village of Joypurhat district on 15 August 2003.7 Most militants managed to escape leaving behind documents specifying their subversive plans. Eighteen militants were arrested but a few days later they were released due to inconclusive evidence. Instead, the government transferred several police officials involved in the Khetlal operations.

Ideology and Objectives
The JMB aims at propagating Sharia, thus establishing Islamic rule in Bangladesh. It is opposed to democracy as a form of governance. The group declared the following in its leaflets written in Bengali and Arabic which were found at various bombing sites of 17 August 2005:

We are the soldiers of Allah. We have taken up arms for the implementation of Allah's law the way the Prophet, Sahabis and heroic
Mujahideen have implemented for centuries. If the government does not establish Islamic law in the country after this [third] warning and, rather, it goes to arrest any Muslim on charge of seeking Allah's laws or it resorts to repression on Alem-Ulema, the Jamaatul
Mujahideen [JMB] will go for counteraction, Insha Allah.

Thus JMB propagates a reductionist view of the religion.

JMB is also opposed to any form of entertainment and cultural functions. Several bomb attacks have taken place during cultural and theatrical events which are believed to have been carried out by the JMB or the JMJB. On 12 January 2005, bomb blasts at two separate cultural events in Sherpur and Jamalpur districts injured 25 and 10 respectively.10 Bomb blasts on 15 January 2005 at Jatra performances at Bogra and Natore killed two and injured over 70 people. Newspaper reports suggest that taxes have been levied on
villagers by the JMJB and women have been ordered to wear hijabs. Those who defy are subjected to physical abuse or their property is damaged. JMB and JMJB have already terrorised people in western and southwestern Bangladesh.

Both organizations identify anti-social elements as per their own definition and mete out vigilante justice. In most cases, they kill their victims in gruesome ways and often mutilate their bodies. The main targets of JMB have been the following (in no particular order):
a) Members of the judiciary: judges, lawyers. JMB intends to cripple the judiciary to stall the development and implementation of secular laws.
b) Public figures: Intellectuals, poets and activists.
c) Leftist rebels or the Sarbaharas.13
d) Minority groups: Hindus and the Ahmadiyya community.
e) Symbols of public life:
Courthouses, cinema theatres, NGO offices, government buildings and press clubs.
JMB's communiqués reveal a Salafist doctrine that is common across
international radical Islamist organizations. For example, one of their hand written leaflets recovered from a bombing site says, 'We don't want Taguti [non-Islamic] law, let Qur'anic law be introduced. Law framed by humans cannot continue and only the laws of Allah will prevail.'

Leadership and Strength
The top leadership of JMB comprises of Maulana Abdur Rahman, Siddiqul Islam alias 'Bangla Bhai' and Dr. Mohammad Asadullah al-Galib. They form the nucleus of JMJB which further proves the link between the JMB and JMJB. The activists, supporters and infrastructure of these two organizations completely overlap each other.

Maulana Abdur Rahman was born in Charshi village in Sadar upazila (subdistrict) of Jamalpur district and is projected as the spiritual leader of JMB. He was sent to Madina Islami University in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s for higher studies and the expenses were borne by Jamaat-e-Islami. Perhaps it was then that he came under the influence of Wahhabism. He worked at the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka from 1985-1990. He was also a member of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) and later joined Jamaat-e-Islami. He is believed to have travelled to Afghanistan where he received training in jihadi activities. According to Maulana Rahman, JMB does not aspire for political power but will ably manage the state if given popular mandate. His father, late Maulana Abdullah Ibne Fazal was a member of Jamaitul Ahle Hadith and suspected of collaborating with the Pakistani army in 1971. The police are seeking Abdur Rahman for masterminding the 17 August 2005 blasts in Bangladesh.
Bangla Bhai has several aliases - Siddiqul Islam, Azizur Rahman, Siddiqur Rahman, Azizur Islam and Omar Ali Litu but is popularly known as 'Bangla Bhai' or 'Brother of Bengal'. His existence has been repeatedly denied by the political establishment in Bangladesh. Minister of Industry, Motiur Rahman Nizami who is also the emir of Jamaat-e-Islami, had said that Bangla Bhai was a media creation as the government had found no existence of his. Bangla Bhai hails from Karnipara village under Gabtoli police station of northern Bogra district but has been living for several years in Bagmara in Rajshahi district adjoining West Bengal in India. Though there is no information available on where he received his education, he is a former Shibir activist and taught Bengali language at a private college. He is believed to have taken arms training in Kandahar in Afghanistan. He was first arrested by the police in 2002 when he
led a killing squad in southern Bagerhat but later released on bail due to inconclusive evidence. Galib was a teacher of Arabic at Rajshahi University and published Al-Tahreek magazine as the chief of Ahle Hadith Andolan Bangladesh (AHAB) for eight years. In Daoat O Jihad (Invitation and Crusade) a book authored by Galib, he advocates armed struggle to bring about an Islamic revolution in the country. Daoat O Jihad is transcription of a speech delivered by Galib at an AHAB conference in 1991. He concluded the speech by saying that, 'At every village, there will be a team of mujahids committed to reconstructing the society and reforming their personal, family and social lives according to the dictums of the Holy Qur'an and Hadith.' Founded in 1978, AHAB now has three wings for youth, women and children. It has branches at the village and sub-district levels of 42 districts and has been used as a mass platform
for JMB activities. Galib was arrested on 23 February 2005.
JMB draws it cadres from universities, madrasas and people in ordinary jobs.
Media reports suggest that there are approximately ten thousand full time activists and approximately US $1250 is spent on each cadre every month. There are also 1,00,000 part-timers and 1,000,000 trainees.32 However, these claims are highly disputable. A section of the Rohingya Muslims, refugees from Arakan state of Myanmar in Bangladesh, is another support base of
JMB. They get trained in extremist activities in camps in southern Bangladesh, tolerated by subsequent Bangladeshi governments. Ukhia, a town south of Cox's Bazar has training camps that are equipped with interconnected bunkers, telephones, lecture halls and televisions.

Support Base

JMJB
JMJB is JMB's most important support base. The JMJB is a vigilante group which was formed in 2003. JMJB's agenda is to neutralize the left wing cadres, particularly the cadres of the Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP). The Jamaat and Islami Oikya Jote (coalition partner in the government) have encouraged JMJB since its inception and ignored its activities as it has helped the
government counter the leftist insurgents.

JMJB's highest decision making body is called Majlish-e-Shura (central consultative committee) of which Bangla Bhai is a member and commander of the anti-Sarbahara venture. JMJB has a three tier system for its cadres:
Ehsar: Fulltime activists who act at the directives of higher echelons. Such members are divisional level heads.
Gayeri Ehsar: This is the second tier which comprises of part-time activists who work at the district level.
Third tier: This involves those who indirectly cooperate with the JMJB.
JMJB is believed to have a fourth tier called the 'Sathis' or 'Sudhis' comprising of comparatively younger people. JMJB was proscribed on 23 February 2005; the same day as JMB.
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh
The political support to JMB comes from Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh which is a partner in the present coalition government. The objective of Jamaat is to achieve the 'pleasure of Allah and salvation in the life hereafter by making ceaseless efforts for establishing the Islamic social order in Bangladesh'.
The Jamaat is also inspired by the Ikhwan ul-Muslimeen or the Muslim Brotherhood which was set up by Imam Hasan Al Banna, the assassinated leader of Egypt in 1928 who aimed at bringing an Islamic revolution and creating an Islamic state.37 Jamaat is led by Maulana Motiur Rahman Nizami. As mentioned elsewhere, top leaders of JMB and JMJB like Maulana Abdur Rahman and Bangla
Bhai have been activists of either the ICS or Jamaat or both. Jamaat-e-Islami may not be directly responsible for acts of extremism; its very inclusion in government has encouraged JMB to feel protected by the government to some degree.

Areas of Influence
JMB is most active in the north and north-western region, and also in south and central Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been divided by JMB/JMJB into nine organizational divisions: Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet and Chittagong have organizational divisional office each, Dhaka has two JMJB divisional offices
and Rajshahi three.
Main areas of JMB operations:
· Rajshahi Division: Bogra, Sirajganj, Dinajpur, Jaipurhat, Gaibandha, Naogaon, Nator, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Tahkurgaon
· Khulna Division: Bagerhat, Jessore, Khulna, Meherpur, Satkhira
· Dhaka Division: Jamalpur, Mymensingh, Netrokona, Tangail
· Chittagong Division: Chandpur, Laxmipur, Chittagong
Madrasas
Madrasas have been blamed for fomenting extremism in Bangladesh and are believed to play an important role in the training and recruitment of militants. There are two kinds of madrasas in Bangladesh- Aliya and Quomi Madrasa systems. The former is run with government support and control, while the latter function
independently. Bangladesh Economic Review statistics show that while
government funding for general education increased by 9.74 per cent in 2001-05, that for madrasas increased by 22.22 per cent in the same period.

Though an attempt to establish direct link between madrasas and extremism may not stand the scrutiny of academic research, the probability of using madrasas for religious indoctrination cannot be ruled out. As Bangladeshi journalist Salahuddin Babar points out, 'passing out from the madrasas, poorly equipped to enter mainstream life and professions, the students are easily lured by motivated quarters who capitalize on religious sentiment to create fanatics, rather than modem Muslims.'

After his arrest, Galib admitted to spending the fund received from Kuwait based RIHS for building mosques and madrasas, giving military style training to madrasa students and other organizational works. Pakistani national Mohammad Sajid, who was arrested for attacking poet Shamsur Rahman on 18 January 1999, told police that he received approximately US $3,45,000 and gave it to someone called Bakhtiar. Bakhtiar, when arrested in Sirajganj the same year, confessed to police that he distributed the money among 421 madrasas for training activists of Harkat-ul-Jihad-Islami (HUJI). Both the militants said Laden had sponsored them to develop madrasa infrastructure.44 Back in 2001 evidence of madrasas being used as militant camps was found when the army chief of the Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) Salamullah Selim was arrested. In his confessional he admitted to have trained local madrasa students in armed combat. According to him more trainers from African and Middle Eastern countries frequently visit Bangladesh to train Islamist militants.
Other members of JMB are also reported to be involved in the running of madrasas and mosques. Abdur Rahman runs Al-Madina Islamic Cadet Madrasa and a mosque in Jamalpur. Nongovernment organization from Saudi Arabia, namely Rabeta-e-Islam and Islami Oitijjho Sangstha provided him with the financial assistance to establish those institutions.

External Linkages
JMB gets financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have confirmed funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based RIHS and Doulatul Kuwait; Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute, Rabita Al Alam Al Islami; Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The RIHS with assistance from Galib constructed over 1000 mosques, 10 madrasas, four orphanages-cum-madrasas and a kidney dialysis centre across the country. The mosques and madrasas were later proved to be centres of militant activities of the JMB. Some of the RIHS offices were blacklisted in 2002 by the US State department because of links with al-Qaeda. Following the blasts in August, the Bangladesh government deported 5 RIHS foreign officials.50 Al-Haramaine was banned by the US in 2004 and its branches in Albania, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and the Netherlands were added by the UN Security Council to the Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee on 6 July 2004.51 It was banned by Bangladesh the same month at the request of the United States. Though all the 14 foreign officials of Al-Haramaine left Bangladesh after the ban, four of them returned several months later and joined the RIHS secretly.

Some analysts suspect that JMB is the youth wing of HUJI-BD which is linked to Al Qaeda and not Al Mujahideen. The mission of HUJI-BD is similar to that of JMB that is to establish Islamic rule in Bangladesh. Furthermore, HUJIBD has linkages with Pakistan based Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) a fact that came out in the open with the arrest of Aftab Ansari alias Farhan Malik, prime accused in the Kolkata American Centre terrorist attack of 22 January 2002.
JMB in 2005 JMB has been active and visible in 2005 as it carried out bomb attacks during various social, cultural and political events. Lists of major terrorist activities by JMB are as follows:
12 January: Bomb explosion during a drama festival in Chakpara village in Sadar upazila of Sherpur district injuring 10 people.
15 January: Bomb explosion during Jatra performance (a folktheatre form) in Laxmikola in the Bogra district killed one and injured 40 people. Another bomb explosion during Jatra performance in the Natore district killed one and injured 20 people.
27 January: Former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria and four other Awami
League (AL) activists were killed in a grenade attack on an AL rally at Boidder Bazar in Habiganj. The attack that injured 70 more people was very similar to the 21 August 2004 bomb attack on Sheikh Hasina's rally in Dhaka that had claimed 23 lives and left several hundred wounded.
5 February: Bomb explosion in Khulna Press Club injuring 4 people.
11 February: Bomb explosion at BRAC office in Mohimaganj of the Gaibandha district injuring three people.
14 February: Bomb explosion at the Dhaka University campus injuring 16
people including 12 Dhaka University students. Four bombs exploded in a large Valentine's Day gathering in front of DU Teachers-Students center.
14 May: Two bomb explosions during a circus show at Bagerhat stadium injuring 8.
27 May: Bomb explosion in a Cinema Hall at Sirajganj injuring 7 people.
17 August: Bomb explosions in 63 of the 64 districts of Bangladesh within 30 minutes of each other killing two and injuring over 100. In Dhaka, bombs exploded at 28 points including the high security Bangladesh Secretariat, Supreme Court Complex, Prime Ministers Office, Zia International Airport etc. Only Munshiganj was spared.
3 October: Serial bomb explosions in courtrooms in three districts of Chandpur, Laxmipur and Chittagong killing two and injuring 38 others, including a district judge and a policeman.
14 November: Two senior assistant judges killed in a suicide attack while traveling to office in southern district of Jhalakati. Four persons were also injured including the suspected bomber identified as Iftekhar Hasan Al Mamun.
29 November: Two powerful bomb explosions in Ghazipur and Chittagong court premises killing nine and injuring over 70 people.
1 December: Suicide attack Ghazipur killing a government employee and injured 30 people. The suicide bomber who was in the guise of a tea-vendor was later arrested by the police in a severely injured condition.
8 December: Suicide attack in front of Udichi Shilpigosthi, a left-leaning cultural organization in Netrakona killing six people and injuring at least 46. Ten policemen were among the wounded in the bombing where the bomber rammed his bicycle into a crowd and detonated the bomb.

2007-06-24T12:35:00.001-07:00

Captain Md Altaf Ali

Staff Officer-2 Operations-2

MINURSO Headquarters

Laayoune, Western Sahara

PF/5780/DO

1. Asslamualikum. Please accept my heartiest congratulations on your well deserved commission and joining the Army Family. I am sure this epistle finds you in the best of your health and spirit.

2. This is the most important time in your service career when you have the scope of learning all about the unit. You should also look after your professional study so that you can reach the zenith. I am confident your sincerity, dedication and professionalism will add new dimension in your new place of posting. I have a few pieces of advice for all my beloved officers; just remember that the first four years of your service life is like a doctor doing his/her internee. Like an internee, the first five years is the period of acquiring knowledge (as much as possible) and make a strong base for your career. You should earn knowledge and gather experience so that you have the scope of contribution in future for upholding the reputation of Army.

3. In the unit you shall come across officers of different natures. You shall come across different traditions of units. No more guidance from your platoon commanders now, it's all onto you now. Use your conscious to decide which one is right and which one is wrong. Do not be guided by temptations. Before you take any action, just ask your heart whether its wrong or right and you will get the reply.

4. May Allah the Almighty keep you in good health and enable you to perform your best to meet the challenge.

To:

All Officers

56 Bangladesh Military Academy Long Course