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Sitting inside his sports-goods store on Dhaka's 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...
...bloody standards of Bangladesh?a nation that has endured at least 21 major bomb blasts that have killed 158 people in the past six years. The attack occurred during a rally attended by some 15,000 people, just after Hasina?a former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's founder?had delivered a speech protesting a series of bomb attacks on her party workers in the city of Sylhet. As Hasina prepared to leave, hand grenades began raining down on the crowd from the rooftops of nearby buildings. While bodyguards surrounded her, Hasina, whose...
...daily basis resist the spread of extremism, and the religious tolerance of a large number of its people. Yet its strengths might prove useless unless its political leaders stop fighting among themselves and start reining in the fundamentalists?while there is still time. Says security expert Ibrahim: "Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia must meet at once and start talking, before this country sinks into the Bay of Bengal...
...aggressive campaign against al-Qaeda in Pakistan has taken a toll on the group's top leadership. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the brains behind the Sept. 11 attacks, and several other experienced chiefs have been captured. And President Pervez Musharraf has lately turned up the heat. A State Department official says Pakistan has captured 30 al-Qaeda suspects in the past seven weeks alone...
...followed the sheikh's advice that afternoon and made it all the way to the southern boundary of Najaf before being turned back by a firefight. Talib said he would take us to a hotel and come for us in the morning, and we agreed to try again, not sure if he would show...