Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

Today the Harvard Crimson, the student daily newspaper of Harvard University, published an article on General Moeen U Ahmed’s visit to Harvard last week:

The chief of the Bangladeshi military, who took part in a two-day session at the Kennedy School of Government last week, has come under fire from scholars who claim that his armed [...]

There is breaking news out of Bangladesh. The public story is that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), one of the two leading political parties in Bangladesh, has had a sudden change of leadership:

In a dramatic turn of events, the BNP standing committee in a marathon meeting last night appointed former finance minister M Saifur Rahman as [...]

Sydney Schanberg of The New York Times reported extensively from Bangladesh during 1971 until he was expelled by the Pakistani military. We was a witness to the emerging genocide. He returned to Bangladesh after independence and reported on the horrors of the genocide perpetrated by the Pakistan army and their local collaborators.
The following is Mr. Schanberg’s [...]

This post is part of what I hope will be an ongoing series of posts that will contain archival material on the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh. There is an enormous amount of information available to scholars and academics, but mostly hidden away in offline libraries and museums. The only online repositories that are available are [...]

[Cross posted at E-Bangladesh]
This morning I received an email from Dr. David King. Dr. King is a lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. As ShadaKalo reported in his excellent post last night, General Moeen U Ahmed attended Dr. King’s class on Election Reform on Monday. The class consisted of 9 [...]

[Cross posted at E-Bangladesh]
Since my post two days ago regarding General Moeen U Ahmed’s tenure as chairman of Trust Bank, General Moeen has responded to the concerns raised by me and others in the Bangladeshi blogosphere by giving a series of interviews to various television, radio and print journalists.
Today General Moeen’s response has been covered by [...]

[Cross posted at E-Bangladesh]
The head of Bangladesh’s military government, General Moeen U Ahmed, is coming to America. He is accompanied by the Air force chief Air Marshal S M Ziaur Rahman and by the other man instrumental in the January coup, Lt. General Masududdin Chowdhury. Last week Bangladesh’s Navy chief was also visiting the United [...]

See if you can spot the stupidity:

Q But you definitively believe Iran wants to build a nuclear weapon?
THE PRESIDENT: I think so long — until they suspend and/or make it clear that they — that their statements aren’t real, yeah, I believe they want to have the capacity, the knowledge, in order to make [...]

Today is Eid ul-Fitr. It marks the end of the month of Ramadan and is a day of celebration, forgiveness, peace and unity.
On the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr, my family and I wish all of you peace, serenity, and joy. Eid Mubarak.
 

In a few hours from now former Vice President Al Gore will most likely be the winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. If he wins, and I think he will, he should go for the trifecta.
The White House awaits. Buhdydharma at Daily Kos has a message for Mr. Gore: "Please?"
Good luck Mr. Vice President [...]