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CONCLUDING PART: Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11?

Subscribe to ShahidulNews CONCLUDING PART Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11? Truth-ers disagree By rahnuma ahmed Before launching into my discussion of the `blowback’ paradigm, let’s take a quick look at the findings from a new poll of New Yorkers: … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 23, 2011
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Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11?

Subscribe to ShahidulNews PART I Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11? Truth-ers disagree By rahnuma ahmed In last week’s column, `9/11, growing disbelief at US govt’s account a decade later’ (New Age, September 12, 2011),  I’d wanted to write about … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 23, 2011
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9/11, growing disbelief at US government’s account a decade later…

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed Today, September 11, 2011, is the tenth anniversary of the attacks on New York city’s Twin Towers, and the Pentagon. Eleven days after the attack, president Bush, in his address to a joint session … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 11, 2011
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Crimes unseen: Extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Amnesty International Report. Bangladesh-Crimes Unseen Aug 2011 ” href=”http://www.amnesty.org/sites/impact.amnesty.org/files/bangladesh-fakir-560.jpg”> Bangladeshi journalist Masum Fakir was arrested and tortured by the RAB © Masum Fakir 24 August 2011 The Bangladesh authorities must honour their pledge to stop extrajudicial executions by … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 25, 2011
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The secret interrogation policy that could never be made public

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Ian Cobain Tony Blair evaded questions over his role in document, and ministers have refused to say if they were aware of details This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 18.46 BST on Thursday 4 August 2011. A version … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 5, 2011
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Saved by the Sharia

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Islamic Sharia Laws 15 Apr 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com Saved by the Sharia By Dr Mahjabeen Islam The questions in the Pakistani mind centre around the vast difference between an American life and a Pakistani one. There is furore … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 20, 2011
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Reflections on Women Development Policy and IOJ’s hartal PART III

By rahnuma ahmed Apnader naamte hobe, had said my friend. We were discussing the Women Development Policy and both he and Nurul Kabir were astonished. Women’s organisations had not taken to the streets. They had not protested against Islami Oikyo … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 10, 2011
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Reflections on Women Development Policy and IOJ’s hartal PART II

by rahnuma ahmed It’s been more than a week since my friend had said, apnader naamte hobe, but there has not been much of a response from women’s organisations to the government’s back-pedalling on the Women Development Policy regarding equal … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 5, 2011
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THE “KILL TEAM” PHOTOGRAPHS

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Posted by Seymour M. Hersh The New Yorker La Mohammed Kalay, Afghanistan, 2010. Abu Ghraib, Iraq, 2003. Soldiers rest just after the My Lai massacre, 1968. My Lai 4, Vietnam, 1968. It’s the smile. In photographs released by the … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 24, 2011
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The man for whom Obama lied

by rahnuma ahmed [Today's column is dedicated to those who believe US presidents don't lie, that only politicians of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ghana, Nigeria, Iran etc., etc., those who belong to the uncivilised south, or to fundamentalist Muslim countries, do]. “We’ve … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 22, 2011
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