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...Bangladesh's increasing combustibility was made apparent on April 1 when the police and coast guard raided a boat in the southern port city of Chittagong, stumbling onto a treasure trove of illegal weapons: 2,090 submachine guns, 150 rocket launchers, 25,000 grenades and more than 1.1 million bullets. The authorities had to transport their catch in 10 trucks. With so much weaponry pouring into Bangladesh, the country's gangsters and Islamic terrorists are well equipped to cause mayhem. Since April, for example, local newspapers have claimed that a gang of Islamic terrorists headed by a man known...
...extortionists threatened to do damage to his factories. In the end, he closed one of them down. For truckers, the token scheme ceased to function about a year ago. The result is that on average a truck on its way from Dhaka to the port city of Chittagong, the country's most important commercial route, is stopped 8-12 times by extortionists. Trucks are frequently hijacked at night, and drivers who attempt to fight off the hijackers are sometimes shot. Bahar says 35 drivers were killed last year by extortionists: "There's complete insecurity on the roads nowadays...
...police to protect them. A wholesaler of tomatoes in Kawran Bazaar has pooled his resources with his neighbors to hire 20 armed guards to ensure the extortionists don't target his part of the market. Outside Dhaka, the level of lawlessness has been equally bad, especially in Chittagong, where many businessmen have been targeted for kidnappings by extortionists. "We live with the constant threat of either being kidnapped for ransom or killed," says a businessman in Chittagong, who declines to be identified out of fear...
...past two months. "This is a way of telling people that al-Zawahiri isn't dead," says a White House aide. The U.S. believes the two may still be hiding in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas. There have also been unconfirmed reports that al-Zawahiri somehow fled to Chittagong, Bangladesh, in March. A source in the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, a Bangladeshi military intelligence agency, told Time last week that bin Laden's deputy left Bangladesh this summer, crossing its eastern border into neighboring Myanmar with the help of the country's Muslim rebels. U.S. intelligence, however...
...weapons they might want and maybe do a little refresher training before heading off again, there's nothing to stop them." Indeed, December was a repeat visit for the Mecca, according to the HUJI source. In June 2001, he says the boat sailed from Karachi to Chittagong with 50 other militants who had completed their training in bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan...