To most of the people in Washington DC, William Bryant Milam an American diplomat is known as the Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. But in reality, Milam is affiliated with radical Islamic jihadist groups as well as notorious Jamaat-e-Islami. In the United States, one of his top cohorts in as individual named Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey, who represents an illegal news portal from Bangladesh named Just News and also claims to be the Executive Director of a dubious organization named Right to Freedom, which is funded by Jamaat-e-Islami and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Former diplomat William B Milam is the president of this organization and has been receiving monthly “honorarium” from the Islamist nexus. According to the website of Right to Freedom, it does not have any office or contact phone numbers. The pattern of this dubious organization is similar to deep-covered entities of Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah and Hamas.
Most interestingly, Ansarey has become the White House correspondent for Just News, an illegal news portal that is ruthlessly anti-US, anti-Semite, anti-India and pro-jihad. It is a mystery as to how the White House authorities have issued accreditation to Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey to represent an illegal and unknown news portal.
William B Milam was a career diplomat. He retired from the United States Foreign Service at the end of July 2001 but was recalled after September 11, and spent nine months helping to set up the multilateral mechanism for the reconstruction of Afghanistan. He was also recalled to serve as interim Charge d’Affairs at the United States Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, prior to the re-establishment of a permanent American ambassadorial post to Libya. His last post before retirement was as Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan where he served from August 1998 to July 2001. During his stay in Islamabad, Inter Service Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s spy agency succeeded in establishing a special rapport with him. Since then he has been writing op-ed columns for Pakistani newspaper Daily Times.
On November 5, 1999, during his stay in Pakistan, William B Milam wrote a paper titled ‘Islam and America, which was presented to the American Studies Conference, where he has blindly praised Pakistan and even radical Islam. Later this controversial paper has disappeared from the website.
With Mushfique Fazal Ansarey, Milam runs a dubious organization named Right to Freedom, which receives funding from Jamaat-e-Islami and other Islamist and jihadist forces and individuals. He has also been playing lead role in spreading propaganda and lies against Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League as well as various organizations and individuals.
According to credible sources, William B Milam had hands behind January 10, 2022 sanctions imposed by the United States on Inspector General of Bangladesh Police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and several officers of the elite force. He and Ansarey, along with several individuals are also pursuing dozens of members of the US Congress and Senate as well as officials at the Department of Justice, Treasury Department and State Department for a newer sanction on a large number of Bangladeshis, including politicians, individuals and civil-military officers on allegation of possessing wealth and property in the US as well for their involvement in money laundering.
The source said, under the direct supervision of William B Milam, Islamist-Jihadist nexus has been working on ‘dossiers’ and related papers with the agenda of getting fresher sanctions on a large number of individuals and civil-military bureaucrats from Bangladesh. This racket also is maintaining regular liaison with several officials at the State Department and Department of Justice.
Seeking anonymity, a source said, as William B Milam has connections with key officials at the State Department as well as members of the US Congress and Senate, he is being used by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami as well as other Islamist forces in Bangladesh. One of Milam’s agendas is also to lure Biden administration in directly interfering into 2023 general elections in Bangladesh.
It said, while political opponents of the ruling Awami League are making frantic bids in putting Bangladesh and the ruling party into deep crisis, there isn’t any real counter efforts from the Bangladesh authorities, including the Bangladesh embassy in Washington DC.
