A press release posted on the US embassy's website yesterday confirmed the arrival of the US warship, USS Patriot, in Chittagong on March 13. The visit will last until March 19 during which the American crew will train together with sailors of the Bangladesh Navy. This is the third so-called port calls by US warships in less than a month. The US embassy's press release stated that ‘these port calls demonstrate the United States government's commitment to Bangladesh and regional security...' The Muslims of Bangladesh must realize that US ‘commitment' to any country only means subjugation of that country for the sake of US colonial interests. And regional security, world peace etc are old terms repeated by the imperialists to establish their foothold in all the regions of the world.

Prophet (SAW) said, ‘A believer is not stung from the same whole twice.' We must take example from Pakistan army whose long term cooperation with the US has now turned it into nothing but a division of the US military. In Bangladesh too the signs are clear for the one with foresight. Not long before these ‘port calls' the American navy conducted operation ‘Tiger Shark' in Chittagong in November last year. And the crusader's embassy has announced that the ‘port calls' will not stop; rather they are part of a series. It can now be clearly said that America is no longer in the stage of planning to establish a base in Chittagong, it has in effect become one. The Muslims of the country must start an immediate political struggle to resist this American presence, remove the current regime which is compromising the security of the Muslims by allowing Chittagong to become a base for the US navy and re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" which will throw out all imperialist bases from the entire Muslim world.