Word: bangladeshis
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Some were just passing through, en route to Indonesia, Yemen and the Arabian Gulf. According to diplomats, a few al-Qaeda fugitives may have been given money and transport to get out of Pakistan by sympathetic staff at an Arab consulate in Karachi. Bangladeshi intelligence sources say that in the same month, a Saudi-owned vessel smuggled 150 al-Qaeda and Taliban members out of Karachi to the Bangladeshi port of Chittagong...
...father, a Bangladeshi immigrant, came to the U.S. in 1971 and met Yasin’s mother, who is mostly of Irish-American descent, at UCLA. Yasin was born in Chicago, and has subsequently lived in Indonesia, suburban Chicago, Southern California, and finally Scituate, Mass., where he attended the small town’s public schools from the sixth grade onward...
...fixated on a bogus Nostradamus prediction about the attacks circulating on the Internet. Michele's mother is consumed with anger at Muslims: "I want them tortured," she rages. "Men, women, children." As if to counter this reaction, Whitney traces another flyer to the Brooklyn home of Shabbir Ahmed, a Bangladeshi waiter killed in the attacks, and finds his family grieving as well, while also afraid about the repercussions for them as Muslims. Ahmed's teenage son Thambir becomes Whitney's assistant on the documentary and ends up bonding with Nicholas...
...transition. SENTENCED. MARK STROMAN, 32, Texas stoneworker convicted of capital murder for shooting Indian-born gas station owner Vasudev Patel last October, to death; in Dallas. Stroman blamed his actions on a post-Sept. 11 rage. He is also charged with gunning down a Pakistani and wounding a Bangladeshi in separate incidents...
Although never a refugee herself, Bangladeshi-born Khan knows the experience of being uprooted from a war-torn homeland. She first left home to attend high school in Ireland, a move she calls ironic since she left civil war in Bangladesh only to find herself in another strife-riven nation. After university in the U.K. - where she met her German-born economist husband - she studied law at Harvard. It was there that she developed an interest in human-rights issues. She has since spent her entire career in the field - until now at the U.N. refugee agency. Her Amnesty term...