Everyone should read the Bangladesh article in your link at 3741.
Note the communist tie in with the islamic muslims.
Below is a snippet:
he usual suspects have been identified as the culprits - the banned Islamic
armed movement, Jamaet-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). However, the
sheer scale of the operation leads many to conclude that others are involved,
particularly foreign groups.
In no other country in the world has such a bombing campaign been conducted
by a domestic movement. Consider the revolutionary movements in South
Asia, such as the United Liberation Front of Assam (India). None has been able
to coordinate a similar operation. The only equivalent is the Maoist forces in
Nepal, which have been able to take over two thirds of the country and encircle
the capital city at will.
To put it into perspective, no underground movement in Bangladesh yet has
the power to capture state power as the Maoists are threatening to do in
Nepal. But the question being asked is: is this a shot across the bow to ready
us for a real challenge a few years down the road? Are we talking 10 years or as
little as five?
Who benefits?
The JMB may be the ones who "pulled the triggers" so to speak. But who gave
the orders? The intelligence agencies have been heavily criticized for their
failure to warn the government. That seems harsh. Several thousand people
were involved in the bombings, using timer devices. They had to be trained,
financed, transported, housed and been in communication with their colleagues.
How could all this go unnoticed? It is therefore logical to assume that the
agencies did know something was up. For example, the Home Minister initially
said that he had prior information. He subsequently changed the story to
having received no warning beforehand. There is a common perception that a
very powerful lobby is able to protect radical movements from arrest or
scrutiny.
No investigation will succeed, as we have seen with previous incidents all
leading to a dead end. This shortcoming is not restricted to the current regime.
The previous Awami League government, too, failed to bring to justice those
responsible during its tenure from 1996 to 2001.
Where do we go from here? We need to consider who would benefit from such
an event and what its consequences will be.
The two main political parties, the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party alliance
and the opposition Awami League, have publicly accused each other. Not only
is it cheap, it is inaccurate. Neither party can possibly benefit from such
instability. The local organizations of both parties are in shambles and not
ready for campaigning in elections set for January 2007. In fact, one wonders
how elections can take place in such an environment. One presumes the
perpetrators have a strategy and are able to strike again. Given the volatile
political situation, which is set to worsen this winter, we could see more
bombings, this time with the possibility of horrendous casualties.
So one wonders, who will benefit if elections do not take place? That leads to a
conclusion that they lie outside the likely winners of any election, that is,
beyond the two main parties.