| Heads up! We've got a new writer, one with an education. |
(Rab) in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj early yesterday.| Who wants to find that on the map for us? I need new glasses. |
Rab said Khorshed Alam, 34, was a regional commander of Lal Pataka, a faction of extremrrhoid outfit Purbo Banglar Communist Party
...the
Proletarian Party of East Bengal, a Maoist party that has seen better days. It supported independence in 1971 and has periodic shootouts and fisticuffs which the Bangla Jamaat-e-Islami, but has fallen on hard times, with many of its leaders rubbed out by the RAB or indignant citizenry. It is also subject to factionalism, to the extent that it may have more factions than it has actual members...
. He lived in Jatibari Rasulpur village of the same upazila.
| " 'Gonna be out for a while, Ma. A regional commander's got responsibilities, ya know.' He had responsibilities, and they killed him far from home, Aisha-Sue." "It sounds like the beginning of a song, Missus Alam. Kinda like 'Barbara Allen'." |
Five murder cases? He sounds more like a button man.
He only had the death sentence on five systems? Wotta gyp.
Rab-12 director Lt Col ATM Anisuzzaman told The Daily Star that a team led by deputy assistant director Mafiz Uddin raided Char Tangrail village around 2:30am
0230 hrs. Start of the shift for our RAB good guys.
"Load 'em up! Move 'em out! Spit out that gum, Sergeant Rafiq!"
"[PTUI!] Right, chief!"
over information
| *Ring, ring* "Mahmoud the Weasel, Jr. here..." |
| But where? Banana grove, strawberry field, brick yard? Somewhere under cover one assumes, as it's the rainy season. We know it's the rainy season because over in West Pakistan we're reading about the annual Drowning of the Poor. |
Sensing trouble,
| "Ohmigod, boss -- my Spidey Sense! It's never done that before!" |
Khorshed and his accomplices opened fire on them,
"It's the Rab! Open fire in random directions!"
prompting the elite force personnel to retaliate.
"They're shooting back, chief! Permission to return fire?"
"Granted! And spit out that gum!"
[PTUI!]
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
Khorshed was struck down in his prime
"Aaaiiiee! I am undone!... [KEEL!]... [FLOP!]... [TWITCH!]"
while his cohorts managed to flee the scene.
... as though they had never been...
the Rab officer said.
| One pictures the Rab officer speaking in brusque, clipped sentences, while our intrepid junior reporter, ink on his BA (English Lit.) still damp, struggled to keep up. He got even by referring to the " 'so called' encounter", instead of playing it straight, though. |
Funny how the bad guys manage to leave their weapons at the scene. Very sloppy.
| That's ok. The new trainee gets to polish them up and put them back in their velvet lined cases in the evidence room. |