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Bangla Bhai, who has told the Bangladeshi press that he is committed to establishing a Taliban-style Islamic government in the northwest of the country, remains at large. Although Prime Minister Zia has ordered his arrest, the police appear to have made little progress, fueling widespread suspicions that the government...
Meanwhile, the sense of disorder across the country is mounting. On May 21, the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury, was wounded in Sylhet by a bomb that killed three people and wounded more than 50. Although no arrests have been made, the city's mayor has said he...
The government's critics claim it is failing to crack down on violence by religious 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...
EXECUTED. ENZO BALDONI, 56, Italian freelance journalist; after being kidnapped Aug. 19 on the road between Baghdad and Najaf; in Iraq. The al-Jazeera network said last Thursday that it had received a picture of Baldoni's body from a group calling itself the Islamic Army; the group claimed the...
Senior officers in Task Force 1/9 concede they do not know whom they're up against. They see boys, some as young as 10, hurling grenades. But they also encounter deftly executed ambushes bearing the mark of professional soldiers and sophisticated terrorist groups. "I really don't know who it...