Friday, August 4th, 2006 The Washington Post on Wednesday carried a story headlined “A new hub for terrorism?: In Bangladesh, an Islamic movement with al-Qaeda ties is on the rise.”Following is the full text of the article by Selig S Harrison:While the United States dithers, a growing Islamic fundamentalist movement linked to al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence agencies is steadily converting the strategically located nation of Bangladesh into a new regional hub for terrorist operations that reach into India and Southeast Asia.With 147 million people, largely Muslim Bangladesh has substantial Hindu and Christian minorities and is nominally a secular democracy. But the ruling ...
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