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| Lanka army claims LTTE chief Prabhakaran dead |
| 2009-05-17 |
| New Delhi: Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief V Prabhakaran could be dead with Sri Lankan army sources telling CNN-IBN that his body has been recovered and is being taken to an army camp in Colombo. Sri Lankan army sources say they have recovered 150 bodies of LTTE cadres but the bodies are still being identified. According to reports all civilians held hostage by the LTTE have now been freed from the battle zone. The report comes even as the Lankan government announced it had captured the final stronghold of the LTTE, and that the top LTTE leadership may have committed mass suicide. "I am proud to announce... that my government with the total commitment of our armed forces, has in an unprecedented humanitarian operation, finally defeated the LTTE militarily," said Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #7 Some of the Boyz at PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS have expressed their broad satisfaction of what they interprete as SRI LANKA'S DEFEAT OF INDIA??? OTOH, DAME > INDONESIA MAY HAVE AROLE IN INDIA'S REGIONAL PLAN. Indian milplanners told that SUNDA-BANKA, LOMBOK-MAKASSAR, + OMBON-WETAR regions are becom STRATEGIC SEA PASSAGES. CHINA's base on Myanmar's COCOS ISLANDS to monitor INdia's BALLISTIC MISSFACS = TESTING. INDIA DESIRES CLOSER INDIAN-INDONES MILECON COOPERATION-PARTNERSHIP. * WORLD MIL FORUM > ARTIC favors INTENSIFIED CHIN CONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS LARGE ROAD, RAIL, AIR INFRASTRUCTURE inside NORTH KOREA, including as a means of PROTECTING NOKOR FROM THE US-ALLIES VIA EASIER, RAPID CHIN DEPLOYMENT OF PLA FORCES INTO NOKOR TO DETER US-ALLIED ATTACK. * RIAN > RUSSIA also desires to den major RAIL NETWORKS, RESOURCE DEVPROJS in MONGOLIA [ read, CHINA'S backyard]??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-05-17 19:39 |
| #6 LOL Gromky! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-05-17 15:35 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-05-17 14:57 |
| #4 Er, can someone fix the formatting there. Both pics are aligned right. Sorry for 2 pics but it's a special occasion, and it's flickr anyway. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-05-17 10:11 |
#3 Well, get the fat lady ready. We're on 24-hour confirmation watch. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-05-17 10:09 |
| #2 ...No fat lady singing yet - but hopefully she's warming up. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2009-05-17 10:09 |
#1  President Mahinda Rajapakse kneels on disembarking from his aircraft at the Colombo International airport on May 17, 2009 and walks into a hero's welcome on his return from Jordan. The president declared that the island's separatist Tamil Tiger rebels have been "defeated militarily" after decades of bitter ethnic bloodshed. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-05-17 09:34 |