IT WAS an odd job for a spy agency. On the morning of January 5th military intelligence operatives phoned the chairman, a vice-chairman and the managing director of Islami Bank Bangladesh, picked them up from their homes and brought them to the agency's headquarters, in Dhaka's military cantonment. Polite officers presented the bankers with letters of resignation and asked them to sign. They did so. A few hours later the bank's board, meeting under the noses of intelligence officers at a hotel owned by the army, selected their replacements.
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