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April 9, 2004

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“We believe these modern firearms were intended to run subversive activities in Bangladesh.”
Lutofozzaman Babar
state minister for home
after a huge cache of arms was recovered in Chittagong.

“ We are yet to find any links to the arms seizure. We don't know the motive for smuggling.”
SM Sabbir Ali
commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police immediately after 10 truckloads of 10,000 arms were recovered in the port city.

“ You cannot organise a war on the basis of lies. You can't bomb a people just in case”
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Spain's new prime minister on the US-led war on Iraq

“I also feel uncomfortable, due to the fact that we were misled with the information on weapons of mass destruction.”
ALEKSANDER KAUSNIEWSKI
president of Poland, a key US ally in the war in Iraq.

“ It doesn't tell why he was tortured…I was happy when it was over."
VATICAN-BASED CARDINAL
in an interview with Time, after seeing Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ.

“ I wouldn't propose that any insurance company give them coverage."
ARIEL SHARON
Israeli prime minister
threatening Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah with assassination

 


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