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2004-02-25

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-02-25 1:50:48 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I posted another article about the situation in Bangladesha while ago
Assuming the reports are correct, it looks like Bangladesh is becoming Pakistan East; with the same nexus between Islamist Generals, radical Mullahs, powerful intelligence services ISI/DGFI, and Jihadis more or less operating openly.
Although the vast majority of the 'terrorist' training camps are mostly just villagers used by various Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Commie rebel/bandit groups operating across the border in North East India.
But when you look at the country, it certainly offers a lot of potential for Al Qaeda, just like Indonesia.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-2-25 4:49:27 AM|| 2004-2-25 4:49:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, shoot, Al-Qaeda has to go somewhere next...it might as well be a dirt-poor country like Bangladesh rather than somewhere like Egypt or Turkey or France.

Posted by gromky 2004-2-25 5:45:43 AM|| 2004-2-25 5:45:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Probably. Until the next flood. Or famine. Or typhoon. Or epidemic.
Do they have earthquakes there?

Posted by tu3031 2004-2-25 8:38:58 AM|| 2004-2-25 8:38:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Do they have earthquakes there?

Yes they do! Basically the whole country is sinking in a geological sense faster than anywhere else in the world. If rising sea levels are for real then the whole place is going to turn into a shallow bay, but then if rising sea levels are not for real then the whole place is going to turn into a shallow bay anyway it will just take more time.

God how I love win-win scenarios.

Posted by phil_b 2004-2-25 9:02:24 AM|| 2004-2-25 9:02:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Assuming the reports are correct, it looks like Bangladesh is becoming Pakistan East;

Bangladesh was at one time "East Pakistan", strangely enough.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-2-25 10:48:10 AM|| 2004-2-25 10:48:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Bangladesh actually has more going for it than Pakistan. Although still poorer, is shows more economic vitality. More important, its birthrate, unlike that of Pakistan, has declined significantly in recent years -- largely because its women are not as repressed. Of course, the Islamists see this and want to put a quick stop to it all. And they may well do so.

Posted by closet neo-con 2004-2-25 12:03:23 PM|| 2004-2-25 12:03:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The jihadis will probably drink untreated water from the wells and get arsenic poisoning, because Infidels brought the Unislamic arsenic removal process to the country. Ain't in the Quoran, so it doesn't exist.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-2-25 3:03:28 PM|| 2004-2-25 3:03:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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