BD news...

Has anyone checked BD news lately? The newspaper is covered with these hadings:

Blasts rock every corner of country
400 small bombs explode in 63 districts: two killed, 150 wounded: 50 held

Two killed, over 200 injured in 63 districts: an Islamic group claims responsibility
String of bomb blasts rock Bangladesh
Countrywide security alert ordered, check posts installed in each district

459 blasts in 63 districts in 30 minutes
2 killed; 100 hurt; all explosives were time bombs; Jama'atul Mujahideen leaflets found

You can guess the kind of terrible thing that has happened. I will copy and paste some excerpts from some of the bengali newspapers. Its in english (for people like flynn and me to understand better).

My sources are:

• The Bangladesh Observer (http://www.bangladeshobserveronline.com/new/2005/08/18/front.htm)
• The Daily Star (http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/08/18/d5081801011.htm)
• New Age Bangladesh (http://www.newagebd.com/front.html#1)

"Panic gripped the entire nation following the series of time-bomb explosions in all the district headquarters except Munshiganj that left at least two persons killed and more than 200 others injured on Wednesday"

"In an unprecedented scale of terror attacks, a banned Islamist militant group yesterday simultaneously blasted at least 459 time bombs in 63 of 64 districts across the country"

"According to witnesses, a bearded young man left a bag beside a roadside shop in front of the press club at about 11:15am. ‘He went to buy a bus ticket and no sooner had he left an explosion took place injuring the shop owner,’ the clerk of a ticket counter said. The bag also contained leaflets in Bengali and Arabic, attributed to Jamaatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh, an Islamist organisation that was banned in February along with Jagrata Muslim Janata of Bangla Bhai"

"Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, the banned militant group, claimed responsibility for the blasts through leaflets that left the countrymen in shock.

Panic gripped the country at the extent of the network of the terrorists who meticulously calculated the timing of the bombings between 11:00am and 11:30am, targeting government establishments, mainly the offices of the local district administrations and courts.

Only two hours after Prime Minister Khaleda Zia departed for China on a five-day official tour, a time bomb went off on the stairs inside Zia International Airport, showing a gaping hole in the security system. Three madrasa students and an imam of a mosque were picked up from the airport premises.

In the leaflets, in Bangla and Arabic, found with the bomb devices, Jama'atul, which was banned on February 23 this year, said: "It is time to implement Islamic law in Bangladesh. There is no future with man-made law."

If you are interested in reading up more on this event just read the actual articles (sources listed above). I know that media has the tendancy to sensationalise things and finding 'news' such as this must make them happy rather than sad, so I am a bit critical on some aspects of the reports. However, anyone who resorts to violence when there are most definately peaceful means of solving things sickens me.

Also, another thing, apart from the media, is BD politics. It has to be the most twisted and corrupt system (not only my opinion, but it is a common international opinion). So bola jay na ki diye ki hoche. Whatever it is, it is so SAD. May Allah guide us all. Ameen.