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| Bangla al-Qaeda member threatens to attack Western embassies |
| 2005-11-28 |
| A Muslim extremist calling himself a member of al-Qaeda’s Bangladesh network has threatened to blow up a number of Western missions in Dhaka, said police in the Gulshan district of the Bangladeshi capital. They told journalists on Sunday that they had received a faxed message from the British High Commission on Sunday night with a request for a general diary entry following the threat to bomb it and other missions. The British High Commission’s First Secretary in Dhaka, Mike Stevenson, said that Manik Hossain of Faridganj, identifying himself as a member of al-Qaeda, threatened to blow up the UK mission, along with other Western missions. The Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner, S.M. Mizanur Rahman, said adequate security forces had already been deployed in areas where the missions were situated. The Islamist militants campaigning for Islamic rule in Bangladesh had carried out nearly 400 simultaneous bombings across the country on August 17, and on October 3 had attacked courts in three districts. In another major attack on November 14, they killed two judges. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Maybe we can just open a virtual embassy on the web - save on the budget and all. As for VISA applications, we could just answer them all no. I don't think our economy would suffer adversly. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2005-11-28 20:10 |