"The arrival of a large al-Qaeda group in the capital Dhaka raises pressing concerns that Bangladesh may have become a dangerous new front in America s war on terror. Indeed, one Bangladeshi newspaper last month even quoted an unamed foreign embassy in Dhaka as saying Osama bin Laden's No. 2, Egjqjtian Ayman al-Zawahiri, had been hiding out in the country for months after arriving in Chittagong. Today, southern Bangladesh has become a haven for hundreds of jihadis on the lam. They find natural allies in Muslim guerrillas from India hiding out across the border."