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Cover Story for Torture Flight 420 from Bangladesh

by David Roknich (david (at) roknich.org)
Newly appointed ambassador James F Moriarty calls for democracy in Bangladesh. After several beatings, journalist Tasneem Khalil was thrown into a prison cell: "I glanced behind me and I saw ... the bed had straps fitted at the top and bottom, presumably for tying people on to it. There was a wheel to change the angle of the bed to lift it up or down. There were spikes at the top of the bed. " VALLEY OF FEAR
"You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?"
"The famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as--"
"My blushes, Watson!" Holmes murmured in a deprecating voice.
"I was about to say, as he is unknown to the public."

When James Moriarty was confirmed as ambassador to Bangladesh, senators averted their eyes from the genocide that occurred under his watch in Nepal. On January 18, 2008, Mohan Nepali reported:
"...penetrating into parties ideologically different from one another and extremizing them towards different ends has become a common infiltration method used by the CIA. After Nepal’s now-outgoing King Gyanendra in April 2006 retreated from his direct rule that he began after his demi coup d’etat in 2005, the US Administration proposed more military aid to the royal government with a clear-cut view to interfering with Nepal’s internal affairs. It tried to directly enter Nepal’s government army in the name of military cooperation. The then US ambassador to Nepal James F. Moriarty visited Nepal Army’s barracks and indecently told commanders to do this and that.
James F. Moriarty visited Nepal’s Terai region (bordering India), met Madhesi leaders and instigated them to take actions against the Maoists. Immediately after this, devastating communal violence erupted in the Terai region. The Madhesi Janadhikar Forum, comprising not only armed robbery, smuggling and kidnapping gangs from both India and Nepal but also political workers and supporters from different mainstream parties ranging from moderate to ultra-rightist views, massacred 29 civilians in Rautahat in March 2007. The massacre is globally known as the Gaur Carnage. The Nepal government became too powerless to punish the directly involved killers roaming in the streets of Gaur. Moreover, the Nepal government even refused to accept the formal information report from the victims’ side. This aroused certain questions: Where did they get money and weapons from? Why did the Nepal government’s district security apparatus became a mere spectator while the massacre took place before their eyes continuously for three hours? Why did the Nepal government not punish the directly involved killers roaming around? And why did the government refuse even to register a formal information report from the victims’ relatives?
The Maoist "rebels" now rule in Nepal, and the US continues cozy relations with China.

April 2006 may have been pivotal in the life of King Gyanendra, but for Ehsanul Sadequee things went dark on 420: April 20, 2006 - the fifth anniversary of the War of Error, conducted by US mercenaries around the world (previous story).

Torture Taxi 420 for Ehsanul Sadequee

It was midnight, April 20, 2006 when Ehsanul Sadequee was abducted by the CIA. Four days later, the staff of the Daily Star reported:
The identification number of the aircraft, manufactured in 2000 and operated by US National Aircraft Leasing, is N596GA, according to information available in the Internet.
The planned departure time of the flight was 1700 hours. According to its flight manifest, it flew to Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, then to Teterboro, New Jersey, and finally to Manassas, Virginia, USA.
The researchers had earlier seen this flight arrive in Turkey, but the stopover in Dhaka attracted attention, as it was the first time one of these flights was seen in Bangladesh, sources said.

At the time of the abduction, Tasneem Khalil was a staff reporter for The Daily Star, but for him the shit would not hit the fan until several months later when he would be shown the interior of a gothic torture chamber, as descirbed at the opening of this story. The guard had changed at the US Embassy, welcoming Patricia A Butenis, who has recently handed the baton to James F Moriarty, formerly stationed in Nepal.

After 2 years in a cage in Guantanamo, Ehsanul Sadequee has been brought to trial, and the trial continues today in New York. His accusers have had 2 years to turn his mind to pulp, build a fraudulent case against him, and find him guilty in the media.

(end of part one, rush post, updates to come)

David Roknich

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