Voicebox

“Hello Sheik Hasina, this is Al-Kaeda group from your surroundings.”
An Email
sent to the Daily star that threatened to kill leader of the opposition Sheik Hasina.

“He spends time chatting with the state minister for communications.”
NAZMUL HUDA
minister for communications
about a reporter of "Prothom Alo" who recently filed a report on the allocation of a piece of public land to a human rights organisation. Barrister Sigma Huda, the communications minister's wife, heads the organisations.

“We are a poor country. If they ask for ransom, we may not be able to pay it even. We hope they will release him considering these factors.”
M MORSHED KHAN
foreign minister
after a Bangladeshi lorry-driver was taken hostage by insurgents in Iraq.

“While I was looking at those destroyed towers in Lebanon, it sparked my mind that the tyrant should be punished with the same and that we should destroy towers in America, so that it tastes what we taste.”
OSAMA BIN LADEN
In his recent audio-tape broadcast.
The fugitive leader of Al-Qaeda also said to the US citizens, "As you undermine our security we undermine yours."

“God willing I will come back.”
YASSER ARAFAT
Palestinian president
While leaving his headquarters on the West Bank for treatment in Paris.

QUOTATIONS ARE TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS.
Compiled by: AHMEDE HUSSAIN. Quotes can be sent to <[email protected]>
Cartoon : MUSTAFA ZAMAN

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