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Sri Lanka says terrorism no threat to 8 percent growth

Only if these dime-a-dozen pundits and believers like Thambi ever knew... that US government debt runs into trillions of dollars... and without that debt they would never have achieved putting a man on the moon or other development...

But then punnakku is readily available... TO THE SEEKERS!

hE h E hE

116 news!!UFO!!
The emergency telephone number 116 set up by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) to seek public information on suspicious flying objects has generated an overwhelming response, but the avalanche of calls received from alert citizens anxious to help, have so far related to sightings of SLAF aircraft itself.'Yes, when the SLAF verified information conveyed by people about sighting suspicious aircraft, they were found to be our own flying machines', Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said.

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Heh, yes I can imagine 116 line is going to be flooded by more people seeing, commercial, SLAF, UAV's, etc rather than real TAF flights =)

Silly old boy when the US fiances debt, it is in essence to themselves,

Wave of cancellations following air attack

The LTTE's aerial attack on the Katunayake Air Force Base last week has resulted in the cancellation of hotel bookings The Sunday Leader learns.

Although the aerial attack has been described as an isolated incident, leading hoteliers are of view that a further decline in forward bookings would put them in great difficulty, following a lean peak season owing to the escalating violence in the country

In the aftermath of the Katunayake attack, the Netherlands has revised its travel advisory to the country, but according to Chairman, Sri Lanka Tourist Board (SLTB), Renton de Alwis none of the other countries have done so, 'which is a good sign.'

'Rest of the countries have stated about the situation over here but they have not imposed any advisories or heightened the existing advisories which is a good sign. We and the hotel industry as a family worked together at this juncture and we are recovering rapidly. We have to be positive and the industry is improving,' De Alwis told The Sunday Leader.

Vice President, Tourist Hotel Association of Sri Lanka (THASL), Srilal Miththapala too is of view that no major repercussions would be felt by the industry, as no major cancellations have been received so far.

'Unless countries further tighten the travel advisories nothing bad is expected to happen as far as the leisure industry is concerned,' Miththapala told The Sunday Leader.

However sources from one of the leading hotels told The Sunday Leader that since last Monday's incident there have been 90- 95 cancellations by Thursday.

'Unfortunately the cancellations have come from Western European countries which bring more tourists to the country. Even though we are still positive the tourists would come back the situation has to be brought under control. First and foremost peace has to be ushered in if the industry is to survive,' said the sources.

'Since last week's aerial attack we have received some cancellations but what we are worried about right now are the forward bookings. For the period June, July and August the bookings are coming through in April and May. But as a result of the attack which is a few meters away from our international airport we fear the consequences would be grave,' said Director Operations, Amaya Resorts and Spas, Lalin Samarawickrema.

Samarawickrema told The Sunday Leader that those who wish to visit Sri Lanka would now think twice before making reservations. 'Even at last month's ITB in Berlin we did a random check with travel shops and except for two or three all the others had taken our brochures out of their shelves which is a bad sign,' claimed Samarawickrema.

'After the Galle Port attack last year forward bookings dropped drastically but since the aerial attack was very much closer to the airport the situation could be worse this time around,' added Samarawickrema.

Madayan even the big building in New York, Manhatten are owned by Japanese, Jews etc., etc.,