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...restaurants, climbing shops, bookstores, CD stalls and more. Book a table for dinner at a local favorite, Tukche Thakali Kitchen, tel: (977-1) 422 5890, on Durbar Marg for traditional Nepali cuisine. If you're hungry for postprandial entertainment, the Factory, tel: (977-1) 470 1185, at nearby Sagarmatha Bazar, is Kathmandu's current place to be seen...
...There are policemen everywhere in Paharganj: they have sealed off Main Bazar, the street where the blast went off, and only allow journalists and foreign tourists living in the hotels back into the street. The garish hotel lights on Main Bazar are mostly dimmed tonight; the street is eerie and deserted, except for the tourists...
...cause trouble back home in camps tolerated by a succession of Bangladeshi governments. The original facilities date back to 1975, making them Asia's oldest jihadi training camps. And one former Burmese guerrilla who visits the camps regularly describes three near Ukhia, south of the town of Cox's Bazar, as able to accommodate a force of 2,500 between them. The biggest, he claims, has 26 interconnected bunkers complete with kitchens, lecture halls, telephones and televisions concealed beneath a three-meter-high false forest floor that stretches between two hills. Weapons available for training there include AK-47s, heavy...
...emergence of al-Qaeda in Dhaka is merely the latest sign that Bangladesh's more radical Islamic groups are coming out from the forests. The former Burmese rebel says three of the camps near Cox's Bazar have closed since October?not because of the kind of governmental pressure being applied in Pakistan, but because the militants feel safe enough to transfer their operations to like-minded madrasahs, some of them in the capital. On May 9 and 10, 63 representatives of nine Islamic groups?including Rohingya forces, the Islamic Oikya Jote and the ULFA?met in Ukhia to form...
When you've had enough, it's simple to exit. Fly with national carrier Biman from Cox's Bazar to Dhaka ($35) and home from there. It's not a holiday in hell. And anyway, heaven was never this interesting...