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Land of the Free

Subscribe to ShahidulNews The Russian, Eastern & Oriental Fine Art Fair, an annual summer event in London’s Mayfair, displays fine art spanning the last 1,000 years. This year, works from Iran, India, China, Korea and Vietnam will be on display for … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 8, 2010
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9/11, Mossad, and a super 9-11 in the offing

By Rahnuma Ahmed Anti-Semite, Jew hater, Holocaust denier are the epithets one is bound to gather if one voices criticism of Israel. Of Zionism. Historian Tony Judt, of Jewish background himself, had written on Israel’s 58th birthday, Israel is like … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 3, 2010
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The `Mad Dog’ in the Middle East

By Rahnuma Ahmed What Dr Alan Sabrosky has done is bell the cat. Except that it’s a dog, and not a cat.One that’s utterly mad. Insane. In the words of late General Moshe Dayan, who went on to become Israel’s … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 26, 2010
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Padded Underwear

By Rahnuma Ahmed It seems that 23 year old Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s underwear was padded with more than just a six inch long packet containing nearly 80 grams of a powdery substance known as PETN (chemical pentaerythritol tetranitrate). … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 11, 2010
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Pentagon’s Prayers

By Rahnuma Ahmed As more US troops surge into Afghanistan, as Predator drone attacks on Pakistan’s north-western villages increase, as news of operations by killing squads of US Special Forces on the Afghanistan side of the border intensifies, as yet … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 6, 2010
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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 →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 22, 2009
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Is your liberation, also mine?

Rahnuma Ahmed “If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together” – Lisa Watson, aboriginal activist 1971 ‘No, I … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 16, 2008
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Of pet dogs (and bitches)

Subscribe to ShahidulNews rahnuma ahmed Last year, in June, she had left Dhaka and her pet dogs to take up her new assignment in Baghdad. Patricia Butenis has returned, this time on a private visit, to fetch her dogs, and … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 17, 2008
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I can kill any Muslim

Year end play: The Nuculier God Theatre: The World Set Design: Tony Blair God: George Bush Sacrificial Lamb: Saddam Hussein Slaves: Saudi Royal Family and cohorts Extras: The United Nations Theme song: I can kill any Muslim I can kill … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 2, 2007
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Sitting on a man’s back

Three bombs had gone off the day before, and they weren’t comfortable about me walking on my own in the streets of Kabul. The driver insisted that he gave me a lift. The suggestion that a particular hill not too … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 9, 2006
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