Bangladeshis Burn U.S. Flags Before Rumsfeld Visit

[PfcHammer]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040604/wl_nm/bangladesh_usa_protest_dc_1

Bangladeshis Burn U.S. Flags Before Rumsfeld Visit

Fri Jun 4, 8:14 AM ET Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo!

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi Islamic activists burned American flags and chanted anti-U.S. slogans on Friday to protest against a visit by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and stress their opposition to Bangladeshi troops going to Iraq (news - web sites).

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"If Bangladesh sends troops to Iraq to please the United States...the revolutionary Muslim people of Bangladesh will resist the move at all costs," Jafrulla Khan, secretary of the Bangladesh Khelafat Andolan, told followers outside the city's main Baitul Mukarram mosque.

Bangladesh has a tradition of sending troops to trouble spots under U.N. control. While Rumsfeld said he would not press any country directly for troops, he said Asian states were aware of U.S. desires for such support.

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Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan told reporters on Friday Bangladesh would not send troops to Iraq or any other country "on behalf, or against, anyone."



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[Sequoia]

1. Awesome Photos

Awesome!

[thebigidea]

2. whoah - love those top three pics

beware the Killer Ramsfeld!

[Just Me]

3. The freon neocons MUST GO before they further fracture,...

,...our great world!!!

I am still having some trouble actually digesting the division and horror and damage inflicted by this extremist neocon regime!!! It's unfathomable!!! It's humiliating, infuriating, embarassing!!!

They have GOT to GO!!! x(

[Karenina]

4. I hope it is not lost on y' all

back there in the "land of the free," that all the photos of demonstrations around the world contain signs written CLEARLY in ENGLISCH... Na ja, those "underdeveloped, primitive folks..."

[The Stranger]

5. "A uniter, not a divider."

[struggle4progress]

6. B'desh denies sending troops to Iraq without UN mandate

Bangladesh Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan on Friday categorically denied sending troops to troubled Iraq without United Nations mandate.
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"We are not sending troops to shoot somebody and got to be shot by the people of the land (Iraq)," Morshed told reporters at Zia International Airport on his arrival from India after a three-day official visit there. He described his visit to India and talks with Congress led new alliance government was a fruitful one.
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Currently, Bangladesh is one of the largest contributors to UN Peacekeeping missions with 7000 troops deployed in 10 missions across the world. But its troops are absents from most troubled spots like Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Meanwhile, the US and Britain are now pressing the U.N Security Council for a new resolution on Iraq under which the world body could issue a mandate for an international peacekeeping force.

http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=39933&cat=Asia

Seems the Bengalis only support real peace-keeping missions.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. The irony is that the flags were probably made there. n/t

[cliss]

8. Wow. Those photos.

Thanks, K. I thought that was a little funny, the banner reads "Ramsfeld". Among all the names I could think of for that guy, that's rather nice.

Pay attention, Donald. The world is on to you and your schizophrenia. The sands of the hourglass are running low, and your days are numbered.