Gaddafi funded murderers in Bangladesh

by Special Correspondent
September 5, 2011

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Libya's ousted autocrat Muammar al-Gaddafi, who reported fled to Algeria through water pipes beneath the desert, played the key role of patron with funds and training to the members of Freedom Party in Bangladesh, which was floated by the self-proclaimed murderers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of the country.

Freedom Party was floated by Lt. Colonel (dismissed) Khandekar Abdur Rashid and Colonel (dismissed) Syed Faruk Rahman, along with a number of army officials, who plotted and executed the assassination plan of Bangabandhu. At that time, both Rashid and Faruk were living in Libya as "VIP Guests" of Colonel Gaddafi. As recognition of their brutality and murderous past, the Bangladeshi Colonels were accorded large construction projects in Libya worth a few hundred million dollars. Such businesses were operated by Lt. Colonel Khandekar Abdur Rashid, under the umbrella of a construction company floated by him in Libya with the start-up capital of US$ 7 million. It is believed that, Muammar Gaddafi gave this money to the self-proclaimed killer of the founding father of Bangladesh, as a "token help" enabling the fugitive Bangladeshi Colonel to start business ventures in Libya. On the other hand, Colonel Syed Faruk Rahman was doing the business of recruiting workers for Libyan projects from Bangladesh. Through this business, Syed Faruk Rahman reported made huge amount of money. Later, Bangladeshi dictator Hussain Muhammed Ershad became a prominent beneficiary of Syed Faruk's manpower business. In return, the Bangladeshi military dictator Ershad gave special privileges to Freedom Party as well as its leaders. Finally Hussain Muhammed Ershad helped Freedom Party to emerge as the so-called main opposition in the parliament, when major political parties boycotted the general election held under Ershad regime. At the personal initiative of Hussain Muhammed Ershad, a substantial segment of Libyan manpower recruitment business was given to Bangladeshi company named Getco, which is owned by a local businessman named Musa alias Prince Musa. It is known to all that, Ershad was one of the behind-the-screen partners of this company. Similarly, Ershad managed huge manpower business for this company from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain, as General Ershad was an intimate friend of the Iraqi dictator.

Main agenda of Freedom Party in Bangladesh was to increase its strength within Bangladesh by recruiting mostly well-known terrorists and criminals in the country, thus providing them financial support, trips to Libya and guerilla trainings. At the special patronization of Colonel Gaddafi, the Freedom Party leadership was building a notorious terror outfit under the garb of a political party, which was gaining strength of staging any sort of militant actions inside Bangladesh.

In addition to funding the Freedom Party in Bangladesh, the Libyan dictator was heavily funding Bangladesh-Libya Friendship Society, the Monthly Islamic Times and Brother Gaddafi Kindergarten School. The Bangladesh-Libya Friendship Society was running a printing press named Progoti Printers in Dhaka since 1977, where publication materials such as a monthly bulletin named Shobuj Obhijan (Green Movement) as well as Bangla version of "Green Book" were published and distributed. It is apprehended that the Libyan dictator was spending US$ 1-2 million annually in Bangladesh for continuing Bangladesh-Libya Friendship Society, the Monthly Islamic Times and Brother Gaddafi Kindergarten School projects.

Weeks before the fleeing of Gaddafi and members of his family from Libya, one of the top absconding killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Lt. Colonel (sacked) Khandekar Abdur Rashid has reportedly shifted from Libya to Pakistan with significant amount of Gaddafi's ill-gotten fund. According to information, Khandekar Abdur Rashid has been assigned by Muammar al-Gaddafi to relocate at least a few billion dollars to some industrial and business projects in Pakistan and the Middle East. It is also learnt that since 1997, Khandekar Abdur Rashid has invested huge amount of Gaddafi's money in some projects in Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Pakistan. This time he is assigned to find larger scopes of investing bigger amount of money, as the ousted Libyan dictator is in dire need of relocating his ill-gotten billions of dollars from the West to "safer" nations.

Colonel Rashid is already contacting some of his "colleague-brothers" in Pakistan army for their possible help in finding larger investment scopes in that country.

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