The evil nexus of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and hardline Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) is trying to hire members of the far-left ‘Squad’ members with the dangerous agenda of using this notorious force against Bangladesh and ruling Awami League.
The Squad is a group of six Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was initially composed of four women elected in the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
They have since been joined by Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri following the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections. The Squad is well known for being among the most progressive and left-wing members of the United States Congress.
All are under the age of 50, have been supported by the Justice Democrats political action committee, and are on the left wing of the Democratic Party. All except Omar and Tlaib were initially elected to Congress after unseating incumbents in primary challenges. All represent safe seats with Cook Partisan Voting Index scores of at least D+25.
The Squad has been said to represent the demographic diversity of a younger political generation and the advocacy of progressive policies such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, which have sometimes clashed with their party’s leadership.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez coined the “Squad” name in an Instagram post a week after the 2018 election. The photo, taken at a VoteRunLead event where the four founding members spoke, subsequently went viral.
The colloquial use of the word “squad” arose from East Coast hip hop culture and describes “a self-chosen group of people that you want to identify with”. Its use by Ocasio-Cortez signaled familiarity with millennial slang as a playful reference to youth social cliques. Ocasio-Cortez’s home borough of The Bronx was the origin of hip hop. Musical acts with “Squad” in their name and lyrics existed from the 1990s to the present.
According to a credible source, several members of BNP and Jamaat held a meeting with Democratic Party’s far-left congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York City and handed her a dossier comprising information on hundreds of Bangladeshi nationals, including politicians and civil-military bureaucrats with information on their properties and businesses in the United States. The BNP-Jamaat nexus reportedly has offered “cash incentives” to Occasion Cortez for her service. The meeting was arranged by a Bangladeshi national in the New York City who has been running a bar for many years. During the meeting, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez reportedly spoke to former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, who currently lives in Canada over video call.
Meanwhile, editor of a leading English daily in Dhaka has reportedly asked its Illinois-based columnist Taj Hashmi to connect Bernie Sanders with the BNP-Jamaat nexus. It may be mentioned here that, Taj Hashmi has been spreading concocted stories against Bangladesh and ruling Awami League mostly through a number of illegal YouTube channels.
Four left-wing Congress members known as ‘the Squad’ are the biggest spenders on personal security despite advocating for the defunding of police, records show.
According to Federal Election Commission reports, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Cori Bush (MO) have funneled thousands into private security.
Between April 15 and June 28 this year, Bush spent more than nearly $70,000 of her campaign funds on personal security.
AOC’s campaign shelled out at least US$4,636 at Tullis Worldwide Protection for ‘security services’ between January and June.
The Virginia-based company’s other clients include the royal families of both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to the owner’s website.
Pressley spent around US$7,500. In the first quarter of 2021, she spent more than US$4,000 and more than US$3,500 in the second quarter on security expenditures. Although a portion of her spending was local, she did hire a Virginia company in January and a Washington, D.C., firm in March.
