US funded Netra News uses fund towards personal vendetta – PART-4

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US funded Netra News, which has been run by a group of dubious individuals from Sweden has been mainly active in spreading propaganda against Bangladesh’s ruling party, Awami League, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, members of her family and several ministers and high officials of the government. One of the editors of this website, Tasneem Khalil, an junior journalist from Bangladesh fled the country several years ago and sought political asylum in Sweden. Subsequently he succeeded in establishing connections with Qatari terror-broadcast network Al Jazeera and since then been patronized, nurtured and promoted by Al Jazeera guys. One of the key reasons behind Tasleem Khalil getting patronization of the Qatari broadcast network is his support and affiliations with several militancy outfits including Hamas. Prior to his fleeing Bangladesh and seeking asylum in Sweden, Tasneem was an unknown entity in the country. But he was biased towards radical Islamic groups and political forces.

According to Wikipedia information, prior to fleeing Bangladesh, Tasneem Khalil worked for The Daily Star and was a stringer for CNN and consultant for Human Rights Watch. He currently lives in Örebro, Sweden and runs a publication named Independent World Report, which Khalil claims to be “a world news magazine focused on human rights issues”.

Before fleeing Bangladesh, Tasneem Khalil worked with ‘Forum’, a monthly publication of The Daily Star.

Searching internet, although existence of any publication named ‘Independent World Report’ was not found, Tasneem Khalil still falsely told a news portal named Open Democracy: “International World Report is based in Sweden, where freedom of the press is constitutionally guaranteed. Since moving here, what has always fascinated me is how this freedom is in the very DNA of the society and of politics. In a way, IWR is a project to share the freedom enjoyed in free societies, advanced democracies, with those where this freedom is absent and who therefore need it most”.

Tasneem Khalil also runs his own website named tasneemkhalil.com, where the last content titled ‘Meet the emir of ISIS in Bangladesh’ was posted on August 4, 2017. Onwards Tasneem Khalil did not post anything on his website. What was the reason behind sudden suspension of posting anything new on his website after August 4, 2017? Although we may not get exact answer to this question, we definitely have some scoops.

Tasneem Khalil got connected to Interpol wanted fugitive terror-funder Shahid Uddin Khan in 2017. This connection was established by another dubious individual named David Bergman (son in law of a pro-Islamist Bangladeshi opposition leader). Moreover, during that time, Qatari terror-broadcast network as well as a number of Islamist media outlets began orchestrated propaganda against the ruling party in Bangladesh with the agenda of bringing Islamist forces back to power in the country.

Tasneem Khalil and David Bergman although are receiving thousands of dollars every month from the US Congress for running Netra News, this news portal has been engaged in publishing false information on a regular basis and providing platform to various discredited and controversial individuals.

According to an opinion editorial titled ‘Pulitzer for lies and faux pas for Khalil-Bergman duo’:

The latest is Netra News’s providing a platform to a discredited Indian author Sarmila Bose, whose ‘Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War’ was a shameless attempt to distort the history of the Liberation War.

Bose, disowned by her mother Late Krishna Bose (educationist politician) and brother Harvard academic Sugata Bose, had put her ‘original new research’ on the 1971 war in question by not only playing down the Pakistani genocide but making huge factual errors.

Bose’s history of fraud stood exposed on her grievously wrong ORBAT (order of battle) in 1971 when she claimed Pakistan just had 26,000 soldiers in the field of battle in East Pakistan at the start of ‘civil war’ and this rose to 34,000 when war broke out with India in December 1971.

“How could such a small number of soldiers rape a quarter of a million Bengali women,” Bose stupidly seemed to reason.

BBC veteran Subir Bhaumik exposed Bose by reminding her that 93,000 Pakistani soldiers officially surrendered to the Indian army in December 1971 and a few thousand were killed in the battle (Book, film greeted with fury among Bengalis – Subir Bhaumik/Al Jazeera, Apr 29, 2011).

Bhaumik, an Oxford fellow himself, had seriously questioned an Oxford thesis by Bose going so horribly wrong on basic facts and how could such a flawed thesis even be considered for a DPhil in hallowed Oxford.

“Why should she miss out on such basic statistics which is all in the public domain,” said Bhaumik, a veteran BBC war correspondent.

As someone who has covered the 1971 war intensely and reported on the Pakistani surrender on Dec 16, 1971, I could not believe an Oxford scholar like Bose, whose brothers Sugata and Sumantra are both top-flight scholars, could go so horribly wrong on basic facts.

But then her motive became clear – ‘Dead Reckoning’ was a book project in a series of efforts by Pakistan to run down war crimes by belittling the extent of the genocide and mass rape.

Now Netra News providing Bose with a platform to revive her flawed and twisted narrative and Bose referring to David Bergman as one of two prima donnas whose opinions she cared about lets the cat out of the bag on the anti-Bangladesh conspiracy trail.

Netra News’ operation has been badly exposed in recent months and the trash they have fed on Bangladesh imagining the country was loaded with fools like him. But it was me who exposed Netra News for being a paid front for US regime-change operations in Bangladesh.

I banked on good old Jeff Richelson’s book on the US intelligence community and Khalil’s own admission that Netra News was actually funded by the National Endowment for Democracy. Richelson has detailed how NED was funded out of the US intelligence budget for regime change operations across the globe — so this was no democracy expansion platform but one that brought down governments not subservient enough to the US by spreading the stink about lack of democracy in their rule.

Are the members of the US Congress and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) aware of the nefarious agenda of Tasneem Khalil, David Bergman and their propaganda site Netra News? Do the members of the US Congress and NED know the main agenda of Tasneem Khalil and David Bergman? These individuals are using American’s tax dollars towards implementing vicious agenda of pro-Islamist forces in Bangladesh. David Bergman and Tasneem Khalil are the birds of same feather who are serving their Islamist masters with the clear agenda of helping radical Islamic and jihadist forces such as Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI) come to power in Bangladesh. They want to turn Bangladesh into another Pakistan or Afghanistan.

End of PART-4.

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