Word: rahaman
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...Police sources in Britain declined to comment on the claims, as did Yusof Abdul Rahaman, the director of the special branch of Malaysia's police force. Sidney Jones, who heads the Southeast Asia office of the think tank International Crisis Group, says that it's critical to understand how "like-minded jihadis from other parts of the world" are forging ties with each other. Jones stresses the role played in such contact by Pakistan's Islamic schools, or madrasahs. Khan is said to have visited a madrasah in Pakistan less than a year...
...even though Bangladeshis have long grumbled about the daily bribes they have to pay, an etiquette of corruption, honored by extortionists and victims alike, has made life bearable for many years. Mahafuzur Rahaman Bahar, a member of the Bangladesh Truck Drivers' Union, says drivers once operated according to a "token" scheme. By paying a fixed sum to the first extortionist they encountered, they received a colored-paper token imprinted with the sign of a tree or a cow, which guaranteed free passage to their destination. So long as corruption operated within the defined rules of a scheme, Bangladeshis got along...
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