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HUJI Leader Blames BNP in 2004 Sylhet Bomb Attack

The incarcerated leader of Harkatal Jihad al Islam (HUJI), Mufti Abdul Hannan has implicated members of the BNP  in a 2004 grenade attack against members of the Awami League.

When asked whether they were guilty of the charges brought against them, Hannan, his brother and a deputy claimed they were innocent.  Instead, they claimed local leaders of the BNP had masterminded the attack that had killed a leader of the AL and had injured 25 others.

Whether or not these counter allegations merit criminal investigation, they certainly merit further journalistic attention.

 

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Faheem Haider

Faheem Haider is a political analyst, writer and artist. He holds advanced research degrees in political economy, political theory and the political economy of development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and New York University. He also studied political psychology at Columbia University. During long stints away from his beloved Washington Square Park, he studied peace and conflict resolution and French history and European politics at the American University in Washington DC and the University of Paris, respectively.

Faheem has research expertise in democratic theory and the political economy of democracy in South Asia. In whatever time he has to spare, Faheem paints, writes, and edits his own blog on the photographic image and its relationship to the political narrative of fascist, liberal and progressivist art.

That work and associated writing can be found at the following link: http://blackandwhiteandthings.wordpress.com