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World Bank official flees threat

Dhaka: The World Bank's Director in Bangladesh has fled the country after receiving a death threat, according to agency reports. Christine Wallich received the threatening letter on Tuesday and left Bangladesh that night. Copies of the warning were sent to several newspaper offices. A Bank source would not say whether her departure was planned, where she had gone, or when she might return. Officials said their offer of extra security had not been taken up. The U.S. State Department's coordinator for counter-terrorism, Joseph Cofer Black, said recently that the U.S. needed to determine not only the terrorist threat to Bangladesh but also its use as a platform to project terror elsewhere. —

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