Yesterday two people were killed and 50 injured as a result of some 300 small explosions across Bangladesh:
In each incident, bombs were set off in crowded spots, mainly at government offices, journalists' clubs and courts...I'm looking forward to the op-ed piece on the opinion pages of the Guardian which (a) explains how to weight these two cited motivations for placing bombs in 'crowded spots', (b) shows that there would be no bombs merely on the basis of the 'implement[ing] Islamic law' motivation, and (c) offers something more cogent than a silence on the kind of people willing to kill their own countrymen, countrywomen and co-religionists on account of being angry at what a hated enemy is (alleged to be) doing against other of their co-religionists. Over to you, Seumas. (Thanks: E.)
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One of the deaths was a young boy in Savar, near Dhaka, who was killed when he picked up a device.The other confirmed death was in the western town of Rajshahi, where doctors say a businessman died from wounds in an explosion.
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Leaflets from the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh have appeared at the site of some of the blasts."It is time to implement Islamic law in Bangladesh" and "Bush and Blair be warned and get out of Muslim countries", the leaflets say.