Kevin Hirten

Call for ‘clear an­swers’ comes af­ter Al Jazeera re­vealed no­to­ri­ous Bangladeshi unit trav­elled to UK for spy train­ing.

De­spite be­ing ac­cused of hu­man rights abus­es, the Rapid Ac­tion Bat­tal­ion was host­ed in Poland and the Nether­lands.

De­spite US sanc­tions against the Rapid Ac­tion Bat­tal­ion, mem­bers went to Britain to re­ceive mass sur­veil­lance train­ing.

De­spite re­ceiv­ing ev­i­dence of the RAB’s al­leged in­volve­ment in ex­tra­ju­di­cial killings, the UK did not im­pose sanc­tions.

The sto­ry of Ali Reza Mon­fared, the Iran­ian who tried to buy diplo­mat­ic im­mu­ni­ty af­ter em­bez­zling mil­lions of dol­lars.

As Boe­ing rolled out its ‘Dream­lin­er’ to ex­perts and jour­nal­ists, un­der the sur­face not all was as it seemed.