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Afghanistan/South Asia
Babar mum on police presence during arms offloading
2004-04-04
State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfuzzaman Babar yesterday avoided commenting on unloading of a huge amount of arms and ammunitions in presence of police at the jetty of a fertiliser factory, saying a body formed by a prime ministerial directive would investigate the matter. The high-powered probe body headed by the home secretary has already started working to find out how the huge arms cache made its way into Bangladesh, Babar told the BBC Radio last night. On his pre-investigation statement that the arms and ammunitions were brought in for planned subversive activities, the minister said, "I made a clear statement. As the arms and ammunitions were found inside the country so we've enough reasons to believe that these are meant for use in the country."
Kinda seems to follow, doesn't it?
On the accusation brought by Awami League of the government's involvement, Babar said there was no reason for the government to be involved in arms trafficking and termed the opposition's accusation untenable.
Unless the gummint was planning on disposing of the opposition with them, but without doing so as the gummint. Or unless the gummint is conniving in Deep Laid Plots™ with Bad Guys within Bangla who're expected to do terrible things to India or Burma.
The government has attached the highest priority to the probe into the arms haul to ascertain the people responsible for the crime, he informed.
Posted by:Fred

#5  I, uh, didn't have a childhood *sniff* it's a long story... ;->
Posted by: .com   2004-04-04 10:29:17 PM  

#4  .com---Didn't you read Babar books when you were a wee lad?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-04-04 10:21:04 PM  

#3  I'm still laughing 5 minutes later. I Googled Babar cuz I knew there is some elephant comic strip popular in Europe - but I thought it was spelled "Barbar", so I was going to post, "at least it isn't 'Barbar'" - then I found it was Babar. Un-phreakin-believable! I checked the article to be sure Fred wasn't just tossing in a ringer, too. When it was clear it was all legit, I damned-near blew a gasket. Too funny...
Lutfuzzaman! I'd like to meet this guy's parents - they must be a scream!
Posted by: .com   2004-04-04 8:16:08 PM  

#2  Alike minds .com...I swear
Posted by: Frank G   2004-04-04 8:09:50 PM  

#1  Lutfuzzaman?
Babar?

Lol! Sheesh, how the hell am I supposed to take this seriously, Fred? Lol!
Posted by: .com   2004-04-04 8:07:15 PM  

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