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...Report Mistaken Your story "General Command," about the political situation in Bangladesh, cites an April International Crisis Group report alleging that in January 2007, the U.S. secretly urged the Bangladesh military to intervene in politics [June 30]. If the author of this story had contacted the Embassy, we would have let him know that this is simply not true. The U.S. Government has been consistent in its message that Bangladesh should be governed by leaders chosen by the people of Bangladesh in free, fair and transparent elections. This was our message before the declaration of the state of emergency...
...difficult to imagine a more inflammatory book title that wouldn't result in a visit from the Secret Service. Bugliosi, a star prosecutor and author of the Manson family true-crime best-seller Helter Skelter, aims to inflame. He wants the American public to finally get furious over the Bush Administration's handling of the Iraq war. He certainly is, and boy does it show: his pages are chock-full of insults (Bush is "devoid of any character"), exclamations ("It's enough to make the cat cry") and italics--just so you get it! Bugliosi is well aware...
...more money, and lots of it. Dennis, the founder in 1995 of the bawdy "lad" magazine Maxim (which he sold last year with two smaller publications for a reported $240 million), is from the "greed is good" school of business. Worth as much as $900 million, he estimates, the author clearly thinks he has earned bragging rights, and he intends to exercise them...
...author of the threat wrote that he or she attended Law School and that the motivation behind the message was "uppity rich bastards...subtly insulting me about being born poor and black...
...Bergen is a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington and the author of The Osama bin Laden I Know