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...Ethnic Assamese political parties and separatist groups like the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) have all taken up the anti-immigrant cause, as have other non-Muslim minorities. A series of bomb attacks in the state capital Guwahati on Oct. 30, 2008, killed more than 60 people, and local police say that militants agitating for an ethnic Bodo homeland, who have clashed violently with local Muslims, are to blame. In this environment, no one bothers to differentiate between the earlier, legal migrants from Bangladesh and newcomers. Says Goswami: "In Assam, if you're wearing a lungi or a beard...
...years Bangladeshi authorities denied any active jihadist movement within its borders. That stance changed in 2005 when a local jihadist group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, took credit for an audacious attack in which bombs were detonated in about one hour in all but one of Bangladesh's 64 districts. The incident forced Bangladesh's leaders to acknowledge the country's internal terrorist threat. Indian intelligence and BSF officials say that Dhaka is not doing enough to stop Bangladeshi jihadist groups in the border areas from crossing into India. But the victory in Bangladesh's Dec. 29 general election of the secular...
...northeast find sanctuary in Bangladesh (a ULFA commander, Anup Chetia, has been in Bangladesh since completing a prison sentence there in 2005) - or as long as India continues its effort to wall off its smaller neighbor with concrete and barbed wire. "India carries the burden of being a local superpower," says D. Raghavan of the Delhi Policy Group. "We are seen as a bully...
...Gregg's wife, Kathleen, was abducted from the couple's suburban Washington, D.C. home at knife-point, driven to a local bank and forced to withdraw money. She was unharmed in the incident...
...over foreigners. Some 300,000 Polish workers flocked to Ireland's once booming building sector after Poland joined the E.U. in 2004. But the real estate market in Ireland has collapsed over the past year. Thousands of Poles have returned home, but many remain - leading to rising tensions as local and foreign workers compete for fewer jobs...