BANGLADESH: NEARLY 1,500 ACTIVISTS OF ISLAMIC PARTY PROTEST AGAINST U.S.-LED ATTACKS ON AFGHANISTAN TARGETS

Record ID: 264148

  • Title: BANGLADESH: NEARLY 1,500 ACTIVISTS OF ISLAMIC PARTY PROTEST AGAINST U.S.-LED ATTACKS ON AFGHANISTAN TARGETS
  • Date: 10th October 2001
  • Summary: JAKARTA, INDONESIA (OCTOBER 9, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PROTESTERS CHANTING PAN TO WATER CANNON BEING USED; SLV POLICE LINES; MV DEMONSTRATORS CLASH WITH POLICE; SLV DEMONSTRATORS GATHERING WITH STICKS AS RIOT POLICE LOOK ON (13 SHOTS) 1.26 2. SCU LINE OF RIOT POLICE STANDBY (AUDIO DEMONSTRATORS SINGING); SLV DEMONSTRATORS (3 SHOTS) 1.40 3. SLV ISLAMIC CONSTITUTION MOVEMENT MEMBERS PROTESTING /CARRYING BANNER AS THEY MARCH/ POLICE WALKING ALONGSIDE PROTESTERS; MV PROTESTERS CHANTING/ CARRYING POSTERS OF OSAMA BIN LADEN; PROTESTERS CARRYING BURNING EFFIGY OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH (3 SHOTS) 1.57 4. SCU SIGN READING IN ENGLISH 'AMERICA IS THE TERRORIST'; MV PROTESTERS BURNING EFFIGY OF BUSH AND U.S. FLAG; CROWD/BIN LADEN POSTERS (5 SHOTS) 2.32 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 25th October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: DHAKA, BANGLADESH
  • Country: Bangladesh
  • Reuters ID: LVAEDFGWSAFA0XDJCTRTTCSAF3PQ
  • Story Text: Nearly 1,500 activists of a Bangladeshi Islamic party
    took to the streets to protest against U.S.-led attacks on
    Afghanistan, waving portraits of Osama bin Laden and chanting
    "Death to America".

    Members of the Islamic Constitution Movement marched
    through the streets of Dhaka on Monday (October 8), burning
    American flags and an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush.

    One of the Movement's leaders, Shah Iftekhar Tarik, called
    for jihad against the United States, Britain, and any nation
    that supported action against the Taliban or Afghanistan.

    "We are Muslims. We will fight against USA, Inshallah.

    Osama bin Laden is our leader. We will jihad against USA,
    Britain and Western countries who fight against Taliban and
    Afghanistan," he said to a crowd
    of cheering supporters.

    Police said they had tightened security around diplomatic
    missions of the United States, Britain and other European
    countries in Dhaka in the wake of the Afghan attacks.

    No injuries or violence have yet been reported.

    The caretaker government holding power in Bangladesh until
    the new government of Begum Khaleda Zia takes charge next week
    has said it was keenly following developments in Afghanistan.

    Bangladesh's constitution provides for a special
    caretaker government to take office in order to hold national
    elections, and its mandate runs out on Wednesday (October 10).

    The United States says Afghanistan is harbouring Osama
    bin Laden, who is blamed for suicide attacks on New York and
    Washington last month that killed around 5,600 people.

    Bangladesh, one of the world's most populous Muslim
    nations, had earlier offered the United States use of its
    airspace, ports and other facilities in the event of an attack
    on Afghanistan.


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