Tag Archives: Al-Qaeda

Resurrecting bin Laden, for the final kill

by rahnuma ahmed [Today’s special piece is dedicated to two professors of international relations, Dhaka university, whom I had the pleasure of watching on private TV channels, responding to news of Osama bin Laden’s death. One of them, while replying … Continue reading

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9/11 Suicide Hijackers. Risen from the dead

by Rahnuma Ahmed “Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (1865) It’s old news. So, why bother writing about … Continue reading

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The West’s Immortal `Terrorist’

By Rahnuma Ahmed Who else…, but Osama bin Laden? He’s alive. Not only in the western imagination which needs an unlimited supply of bogeymen as its alter. To create and re-create myths of its innocence which serve to justify the … Continue reading

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