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2009-05-17 Sri Lanka

Lanka army claims LTTE chief Prabhakaran dead

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Posted by john frum 2009-05-17 09:33|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

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|| 2009-05-17 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 ...No fat lady singing yet - but hopefully she's warming up.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-05-17 10:09|| 2009-05-17 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, get the fat lady ready. We're on 24-hour confirmation watch.

Posted by gromky 2009-05-17 10:09|| 2009-05-17 10:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-05-17 10:11|| Front Page Top

Posted by gromky 2009-05-17 14:57|| 2009-05-17 14:57|| Front Page Top

#6 LOL Gromky!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-05-17 15:35|| 2009-05-17 15:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-05-17 19:39|| Front Page Top

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