"I won't worry even if I'm to be executed as I have dedicated myself to bringing about an Islamic revolution across the globe." Across the globe, mind you, not just in Bangladesh. "Bangla radicals plan to carry more serial blasts after Ramadan," from ANI, with thanks to Nicolei:
Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), the two radical outfits that have been blamed for the serial blasts in Bangladesh are planning to carry out more blasts across the country after the holy month of Ramadan.Kawser Alam Sumon, a 27-year JMB leader who was caught in Netrakona town round midnight Wednesday, said, that he received calls from JMB chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman to get prepared for carrying on another round of bomb attacks after Ramadan.
"Two or three days ago, our chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman called me on my mobile phone and asked me get prepared for carrying out another round of bomb attacks at the end of Ramadan," a police official quoted Sumon, as saying.
Officials said that Sumon had also confessed of having co-ordinated the August 17 blasts in Netrakona, Kishoreganj and Mymensingh districts on the directives of Abdur Rahman.
They said that the raid on his brother in law's house, from where he was arrested, also led to the seizure of video cassettes containing footage of Afghan and Chechen wars and speeches of Osama bin Laden. Sumon's mobile phone was also recovered during the raid.
Officials said that Sumon's sister Beauty (22) was also held for suspected links to militancy. She has admitted to being a member of JMB, they said.
Sumon, who has now been place on a seven-day remand by a Netrakona Court, said that his younger brother Zakaria Alam Dipon was also a member of the JMB, reports The Daily Star.
"I won't worry even if I'm to be executed as I have dedicated myself to bringing about an Islamic revolution across the globe," an investigator quoted Sumon as saying.
Bangladesh popn:144,319,628 July 2005 est.
Yup they should get up stand up and fight for their rights. As ia says Allahu Akbar!
I'm just finishing up a history of guerilla warfare, "War in the Shadows", by Robert B. Asprey, a 2 volume work covering pre-Roman times up to the 60's, when it was written.
The main impression I am coming away with is how badly so many conflicts evolved due to the anti-guerilla side's persistent refusal to see the reality of the situation. Whether it was enemy numbers, popular support and/or determination, the fact that the guerillas were a organized entity with an ideological focus and not "bandits", the inevitable alienation of the populations by harsh and/or indescriminate and poorly thought out countermeasures, the steps available to alienate the guerillas from their supports, or simply the amount of time and logistics neccessary to properly deal with the problem.
Granted, hindsight is cheap, but I wish I had counted how many times I read "This will be over in 3 months, or 6 months". How many times were serious, organized forces dismissed as bandits?
How many field commanders begged for sufficient forces, men with boots on the ground, who were denied because policymakers refused to accept reality. Not just post WW2, not just 20th century, but back over thousands of years. I have never understood the phrase "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it" more than now, having read this book.
The usual routine involves piddling away vast resources until the cost is staggering, and then being forced into unsatisfactory solutions anyway.
The exceptions are those instances where;
1. Sufficient resources were available as needed
2. Insurgents screwed up and alienated the populace
3. Government forces took away the insurgents momentum by providing the populace with that which the insurgents were "fighting for", or provided a "better way"
4. insurgents move from guerilla to conventional military actions too soon, either from misjudging their own strength, the governments weakness/lack of resolve, or the populations willingness to join in a general uprising triggered by a major offensive on important centers.
1. and 3. show an honest grasp of the situation, an acceptence of the reality
2. (which I believe will apply to Iraq) Is not really in the governments hands but may be provokable.
4. tends not to be fatal, the remaining bad guys just go back into safe zones to heal, rebuild, and restart the insurgency from square one.(hit and run, infiltration, organizing shadow governments)
It really is amazing, this has all gone on over and over and over again. We can't afford diplomatic nuances, political considerations, sensitive sensitivities, etc.
We need a majority of leaders with a clear eye on reality, a firm spine, and nerves of steel.
morning, t-ham
"this has all gone on over and over and over again".
Can I suggest this is because political violence works. Did the book attempt to reach this conclusion?
W the C,
As I stated, I'm not finished yet, but that's really a fundamental thread of the book, that political violence works. You can't read this book attentively and not come away with that realization. That's one of the points that brought me to the book, that well-run guerilla campaigns are an absolute bitch to battle, Sun Tzu and all that. Taber's "War of the Flea" got me started on this line of study.It seems that in most historic incidents, the conflicts were the guerilla's to lose, given the almost uniform inability of authorities to abandon conventional thinking.I mentioned the book was written in the late 60's but I'm wrong, copyright 1975.
I am a rabid book collector but in this case I picked up a book club edition on ebay for next to nothing, perfectly adequate for the use it gets. If you go looking, remember it's a 2 volume set, some sellers on ebay only have one volume or the other.
Around the globe! As I've been saying ad nauseam to everyone within listening distance.