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Washington Times: The number of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh jumping the border to sneak into the U.S. is on pace to double in the Laredo region of Texas, officials said Wednesday, in what is the latest worrying surge of migration from a country with terrorism dangers. The illegal immigrants pay up to $27,000 to international smuggling organizations to ferry them from Asia into the western hemisphere, where they make their way up through Central America and Mexico to the U.S. border, where they’re led across the Rio Grande. Another four Bangladeshis were nabbed in the Border Patrol’s Laredo Sector on Wednesday, bringing the total through a little more than six months of the fiscal year to 188. That’s already more than the 181 apprehended in all of fiscal year 2017. In 2016, the sector saw just one. The increase is worrisome both because of the presence of Islamist terror networks in Bangladesh, and because the immigrants are being coached on what to say when caught at the...

Washington Times: Federal authorities wrangled a guilty plea Wednesday from a Brazilian man who ran one of the Western Hemisphere’s more flagrant alien smuggling operations, sneaking dozens of illegal immigrants from terrorism-connected countries into the U.S. from 2014 to 2016. Sharafat Ali Khan specialized in smuggling illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh over to the West, where they would be staged in Brazil before being sent north to try to penetrate the U.S. One of the men Khan helped smuggle into the country was an Afghan who authorities said was involved in a plot to conduct an attack in the U.S. or Canada and had family ties to members of the Taliban. Khan appeared in federal court in Washington on Wednesday and agreed to plead guilty to a smuggling conspiracy charge. He will be sentenced this summer and could get up to 46 months in prison, though a lower sentence is likely. Khan also agreed to accept deportation after he serves his time — though...

BBC: Bangladeshi police say they have stormed a hideout near Dhaka and killed the suspected planner of a cafe attack last month that left 22 people dead. "Tamim Chowdhury is dead," said senior police officer Sanwar Hossain, referring to the Bangladeshi-Canadian suspected mastermind. Three other suspected militants were killed by police during the raid. The cafe attack began on 1 July when the militants entered the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka. They held hostages for 12 hours before police stormed the cafe, rescuing 13, killing six gunmen and arresting another. Twenty hostages and two police officers were killed in the attack, the worst in the country's history. ... Good riddance.  ISIL claimed credit for the mass murder, but Bangladesh disputes that saying the mass murderers were from a local group of Islamic terrorists.

Daily Mail: Three U.S students among 20 hacked to death in Bangladesh restaurant by ISIS terrorists, who shouted Allahu Akbar and only spared those who could recite the Koran Portions of the Koran were plagiarized from the Bible.  One verse that probably did not get copied is from Matthew 7:15: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. And later in verse 7:20: Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. They have certainly made themselves known with these attacks and other mass murder for Allah attacks.

NY Times: 20 Hostages Killed in Bangladesh Standoff Six Gunmen Also Dead After Attack, Military Says Bangladeshi troops stormed a restaurant in the capital, Dhaka, ending an 11-hour standoff with Islamist militants who hacked patrons to death. Thirteen hostages were rescued after the attack, for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility. As in the case with the Turkish terror attack, there was no hesitancy in identifying the perps as associated with ISIL.  It si only when terrorists strike the US that the media and the administration have trouble identifying the motive of the terrorists even when they state it.  It is one of the weird ticks of the Obama administration.  It is also one that the liberals in the media tend to ignore common sense and follow Obama's weird lead.

BBC: Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has suggested an Israeli link to the recent killings of secular bloggers and minorities. He said an opposition MP had met an Israeli intelligence agent and there was evidence of an "international conspiracy" against Bangladesh. Mr Khan's comments come a day after the wife of a senior police officer investigating the deaths was shot dead. Most of the killings have been blamed on or claimed by Islamists. The government has sought in the past to link the opposition to the attacks. ... At least 30 people have been killed in the wave of attacks on those seen by extremists as offensive to Islam. ... It is hard to comprehend such incompetent police work or the ethnic and religious bigotry that goes into such ridiculous thinking.  There is no conceivable motive for Israel to be involved in the attacks.  Islamists are taking credit for the killings and the possibility that they might be acting on behalf of Israel is beyond remote.

Washington Post: Foreigners fear for their safety in Bangladesh after Islamic State claims killings The U.S. Embassy is no longer permitting its personnel to be in most public places after a string of attacks left two foreigners dead and a third, an Italian missionary, seriously wounded. They have also been killing domestic bloggers who write things they disagree with.  They are clearly intolerant bigots and Islamist.   They are turning Bangladesh into a dangerous hell hole.

Independent: The Bangladeshi military has stopped a plot by a group of hardline officers to launch a coup against the government, army officials have claimed. It said those involved were religious extremists.   At a press briefing yesterday in the capital, Dhaka, a military spokesman, Brig Gen Muhammad Masud Razzaq said the armed forces had specific evidence that up to 16 current and former officers were involved in a “heinous conspiracy” to overthrow the civilian government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.   “Specific information has been unearthed that some officers in military service have been involved in the conspiracy to topple the system of democratic governance,” he said. According to the Associated Press, he said the plot had been hatched by Bangladeshis living overseas and military officers with “with extreme religious views”. ...  This is good news for the poverty stricken country.  These guys are good at creating famine where ...

BBC: Police in southern Bangladesh say a woman cut off a man's penis during an alleged attempt to rape her and took it to a police station as evidence. The incident took place in Mirzapur village, Jhalakathi, about 200km (124 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka . Monju Begum, 40, a married mother of three, told police that neighbour Mozammel Haq Mazi forced his way into her shanty and started assaulting her. Mr Mazi, who denies the accusation, has been admitted to a nearby hospital. "We will arrest him once his condition gets better," police spokesman Abul Khaer told the BBC. "She said she fought back and cut off his penis and brought it to our police station in a polythene bag to prove that Mr Mazi tried to rape her," police spokesman Abul Khaer told the BBC. "She has registered a case accusing him of attempted rape," he said. ... The man claims they were having an affair and he was attacked when he refused to leave his wife. The defe...

Image via Wikipedia Guardian: Three doctors are being investigated by authorities in Bangladesh after they claimed to have found no signs of injury in the postmortem examination of a teenage girl who was whipped to death under a fatwa. Hena Akhter, 14, died in hospital 11 days ago after she was sentenced to 101 lashes by village elders and clerics who alleged she had been having an affair with her married cousin. After a postmortem at her district hospital, doctors in Shariatpur , around 60km south of the capital, Dhaka , said they could find no signs of injury. But Hena's body was exhumed on Tuesday night on orders from the High Court, and a second autopsy concluded that she had died from internal bleeding and septicaemia caused by wounds "of a homicidal nature" on her scalp, abdomen, back, chest, arms and legs. At the High Court, Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury ordered the ministry of health to investigate the three doctors who carried out the first postmort...

Daily Mail: A teenager whipped to death in Bangladesh for having a relationship with a married man was allegedly raped by her cousin, it has emerged. Four Islamic clerics were arrested this week for ordering Mosammet Hena, 14, to receive 100 lashes in a fatwa or religious edict at a village in the south-western Shariatpur district. It has now been reported that the teenage girl was raped by her married cousin and then accused of having an affair with him. The girl collapsed after she was lashed in public with a bamboo cane around 70 times on Monday, police chief Shahidur Rahman said. She was taken to hospital, but died hours later. Police chief Shahidur Rahman said the 40-year-old man with whom the girl was allegedly involved was also sentenced to 100 lashes, but he fled to escape the punishment. ... Pedophiles are a privileged lot in some Muslim countries. After all, who is going to complain about being sexually abused when you risk being killed by the courts? It is the...

Image via Wikipedia Independent: A dozen men, mostly Britons of Bangladeshi origin, were arrested yesterday in connection with an alleged plot to carry out synchronised bombings in British cities . The suspects were held in 5am raids in London, Stoke-on-Trent , Birmingham and Cardiff, after having been tracked meeting each other in different parts of the country. The arrests were made after information was received that the alleged plotters had brought forward their intended attacks and planned to strike crowded shopping streets in the days before Christmas . It is the first time that an alleged terrorist plot has been discovered involving several people of Bangladeshi origin. Aspiring jihadists have been training in Bangladesh after greater scrutiny was introduced for those travelling to Pakistan. ... The Guardian described the targets. Counter-terrorism officials launched a major operation over fears of multiple bomb attacks in Whitehall, central London , and on Christmas s...

Image via Wikipedia BBC: A Bangladesh court has ruled that people cannot be forced to wear skull caps, veils or other religious clothing in workplaces, schools and colleges. The ruling came after reports that a college in the north had forced students to wear veils. The high court also ruled that women cannot be prevented from taking part in sports or cultural activities. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote Because any kind of religious attire is imposed, that has been declared illegal to some extent” Mahbub Shafique Lawyer The court said that wearing any form of religious clothing, for students and employees, should be a personal choice. ... There is much more. It sounds like this court has struck a blow for freedom in Bangladesh. I think that should mean fewer women in funny clothes and more women who can engage in athletics without a sack over their heads. It is the kind of ruling that will increase respect for countries with a Muslim majority. Relate...

Independent on Sunday: Security experts have warned that extremists training in Bangladesh could pose a major threat to Britain, adding that the south-Asian country has become a "safe haven" for terrorists. Rising numbers of British-born fundamentalists are travelling to Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) for jihadist training, prompting the Bangladeshi government to launch a database to monitor the movements of suspected terrorists. UK security services are also turning their attention to the country, fearing it may become a magnet for would-be terrorists as security forces ratchet up surveillance on Pakistan. More than 4,000 British Muslims are thought to have travelled to Pakistan and Afghanistan for military training. Senior Bangladeshi intelligence sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they were keen to crack down on growing fundamentalist activity. But they admitted that lack of technology limits the means they have to monitor suspected extremists. One ...

CNN: The attackers who killed nearly 180 people last week in Mumbai, India, had help from a Bangladeshi national, Indian security sources told CNN sister network CNN-IBN. The Bangladeshi national bought cell phone SIM cards for the attackers at several locations inside India, the sources said Thursday. SIM cards -- subscriber identity modules -- are portable memory-chips that make it easy to switch cell phones. Intelligence experts say they're used by terrorists to throw their pursuers off the trail. Indian authorities believe all the attackers were Pakistanis, specifically blaming Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), an Islamic militant group based in Pakistan. LeT has denied any responsibility for the attacks, but the sole surviving gunmen told interrogators he was trained by LeT, Indian authorities have said. ... ... one analyst who studies India-Pakistan tensions believes this operation was planned and carried out by militants from Bangladesh, Pakistan -- and India. "They needed ...