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...centrally located Bangabandhu Avenue, Rahim Ali could clearly hear the voice of Sheikh Hasina, the leader of his country's opposition, as she addressed a mammoth rally just outside his shop. Soon after Hasina's speech ended, Ali's windowpanes started shaking and cracking. Outside on the avenue, Delwar Hossain, a 26-year-old seller of peanuts, heard a loud noise and thought at first that the tire of a truck must have burst. A moment later, Quddus Miah, a street-side garment vendor, saw thousands of people, many wounded and bleeding, stampeding down the road; his first instinct...
...international probe into the bomb blasts. While they grope for clues, security experts agree that the attack, with its use of hand grenades instead of crude, homemade bombs, shows how brazen Bangladesh's terrorists have become. "A new threshold has been crossed," says former Foreign Minister Kamal Hossain. "We have seen a tremendous escalation by communal and antidemocratic forces...
...extremists partly because it needs the support of two Islamic fundamentalist parties to stay in power. Prothom Alo editor Rahman says one of the politicians leading the angry demonstrations against his newspaper is a lawmaker from an Islamic party that is part of the ruling coalition. Former Foreign Minister Hossain remarks: "It is almost an irresistible inference that what has been allowing [the terrorists] to carry on their attacks with impunity is that they have patrons and protectors in high places." Zia's adviser Chowdhury denies the charge, asserting that his government is investigating all the terrorist attacks thoroughly...
...first step on Bangladesh's road to recovery, says Hossain, is for the government to make public the records of all previous investigations into acts of terrorism and to ensure that the assassination attempt on Hasina is thoroughly probed. "If the government fails to hold a proper inquiry and take proper action, it should make way for a new [government]," says Hossain. But there is widespread consensus that the opposition must also do its part to heal the country's poisoned political culture. "The bitter fighting between the two parties has allowed the fundamentalists to grow in strength," says editor...
...receiving the first call (which she says was after 1 a.m.), but were so busy saving lives at the Manningham Labour Club, where rioters had blocked the fire doors with blazing cars, that they couldn't handle the BMW dealer too. "Whatever the reality, perceptions are significant," says Khadam Hossain, 49, a financial planner who came to Britain when he was eight. "While we support the police to a certain extent, they haven't managed to get their image right among the youth." He has no white clients, nor, he says, do his friends in other professions. He is sitting...