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“It appears to be Re-planned and well organised”
M LUTFUZZAMAN BABAR
state minister for home describing the attack to a local television channel.
The minister has also said, "In such attacks it is possible that a motive is there. We had intelligence report about such incident, but that time had expired."

“It is the third call to establish Islamic rule in the country. If ignored and (if) our people are arrested or persecuted, Jaamat-ul-Mujahideen will take the counter action.”
JAAMAT-UL-MUJAHIDEEN
an outlawed group in a leaflet in Arabic and English claiming responsibility for a series on nearly-simultaneous blasts that rattled the capital and towns across the country.
"It is also to warn Bush and Blair to vacate Muslim countries, or to face Muslim upsurge," it goes on.

“Obviously I've always believed the sooner the constitution was completed, and sooner it was voted on, the greater the likelihood the Iraqi people would feel they have a stake in the country, and that they have an acceptable set of compromises that would protect them from each other.”
DONALD RUMSFELD
US defence secretary
about the delay in drafting Iraqi constitution.

“You have made rivers of blood in our countries, so we blew up volcanoes of rage in your countries. Our message to you is clear and unequivocal: You will not be saved unless you withdraw from our land, stop stealing our oil and our resources, and cease your support of the corrupt rulers.”
AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI
Egyptian surgeon and Al-Qaeda's second-in-command
"The same lies they said about Vietnam, they repeat today about Iraq. Did they not say that they would train the Vietnamese to manage their own affairs, and that they defend freedom in Vietnam?" Zawahiri continued.

“We found that the La Bamba authority has been producing all of their mouth-watering food items in a car garage in Uttara.”
ABM ABDUL FATTAH
magistrate
who chaired a mobile court that fined La Bamba Tk 25,000.
The other food joints that were fined in Uttara are: Sea-shell restaurant, Khajana, Ali Baba Sweets and Mr Baker.

QUOTATIONS ARE TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS. .
Compiled by: AHMEDE HUSSAIN. Quotes can be sent to <ahmedehussain@gmail.com>
Cartoon : MUSTAFA ZAMAN

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