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Air Force raids `X-ray base` terrorists` nerve center in Kilinochchi Wednesday, 23 January 2008 - 8:22 PM SL Time Sri Lanka air force fighter jets have raided the terror hub in Kilinochchi, known as `X-ray base` around 11.15, this morning (January 23). Air Force fighter jets in a low flying mission have targeted the base located East of Iranamadu Tank in the Kalmadukulama area, with the pin point accuracy, air force sources said.
According to Air Force Spokesperson Wing Commander Andi Wijesoriya, the air sorties were carried out on information obtained through real-time air surveillance and ground reconnaissance. Also, he said that the targeted location has been a regular visiting place of terror chief V. Prabhakaran. Fighter pilots have confirmed that the target was accurately hit, he added. Defence intelligence sources said that the air raid was timed with a `special` activity that was going on at the LTTE base. However, the sources refrained from commenting further on the issue. Also, the sources said, the targeted terror hub was located in a thick jungle patch, North of LTTE`s `runway` in Iranamadu. The area has been long demarcated as a `high security zone` and a `no go` area for civilians, the sources added. 
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Sri Lanka Army to march towards Elephant Pass soon Wednesday, 23 January 2008 - 8:59 AM SL Time With the intention of marching towards Elephant Pass to seize control of the areas under the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, Sri Lank Army has adopted a new operation tactics and strategically approach successfully in their latest war experiment.
Sri Lanka Army is said to be now determined to mobilize and enter into major onslaughts initially in the vulnerable Tiger controlled areas in Vanni in the Northern Province and according to set- plans, armed forces are engaging the LTTE fighters almost in all fronts. As the Army has opened several battle fronts all over the LTTE controlled areas in Vanni, the demoralized LTTE with its limited number of cadres are forced to spread thinly and are fighting their lives out to stop the advances of Sri Lanka armed forces into their areas.
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Sri Lanka President says LTTE is not behind Colombo bombings Tuesday, 22 January 2008 - 11:01 PM SL Time Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said that recent bomb blasts in Colombo may not be the work of the Tamil Tigers, but claimed that some `other group` who has political and business interests, may be behind it.
In a meeting with heads and editors of the Sri Lankan media this morning at Temple Trees, the President said, `It is not like the LTTE to set off bombs to cause only a huge sound and no casualties.` `Why should they risk their men to plant these `dumb bombs` when they are used to causing huge casualties,` he asked. The President also said he believed several `other groups` may be behind the spate of violence. Two people were slightly injured in two blasts in Colombo City few weeks ago.
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Deadly Find : Seventeen civilian bodies discovered south of Vavuniya Thursday, 24 January 2008 - 8:30 PM SL Time Seventeen bodies have been found from south of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka Police said. Reports said that the bodies were found in two garbage dumps. All victims are civilians with gunshot injuries. According to Police sources, they were found in Kiriketuwewa GS area of Kebitigollewa division in the Anuradhapura district, 22 km south of Vavuniya. The bodies are still at the crime scene. Investigations are continuing.
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Teen aged job seeker from Batti. raped in Sri Lanka Wednesday, 23 January 2008 - 9:06 AM SL Time A teen aged Tamil girl from Batticaloa who had come to a Maradana employment agency accompanied by two foreign employment sub agents, is alleged to have been raped at a lodge in Maradana. A suspect was taken into custody. According to the complaint, the girl aged (19) who was a native from Karadiyanaru in Batticaloa, she had visited Colombo accompanied by two sub agents who had made arrangements to accommodate her in a lodge in Maradana. However, after a short stay, she had fallen ill and cutting short her visit had returned to Karadiyanaru where she had sought treatment at the government hospital. Maradana Police said that according to medical examination, she had stated that she had been raped. A complaint was lodged with the Police who apprehended one of the suspects. SI Gunasinhe Adikari, PS.22465 Gunaratne under the directions of OIC Sunil Imbulpe is conducting investigations.
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Army deserter arrested selling tickets in aid of disabled soldiers in Sri Lanka Wednesday, 23 January 2008 - 9:05 AM SL Time An Army deserter in full uniform selling tickets priced at Rs 50 in aid of disabled soldiers at the Katunayake Free Trade Zone was yesterday arrested by Police along with the tickets and money collected. He carried a forged Army identity card. Police are on the lookout for a disabled soldier who assisted the main suspect. The deserter confessed to the Police that he had collected a few lakhs of rupees selling these tickets at various places. He wanted the money to build a house for his family.
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Prabhakaran`s fate not known after decapitation air strike Thursday, 24 January 2008 - 8:31 PM SL Time The LTTEin total disarray ordered the closure of all shops in Kilinochchi and maintained radio silence following yesterday`s decapitating air strike on a hideout known as `X-ray base`, at Iranamadu, frequented by LTTE leader Prabhakaran around 11.15 yesterday morning. Although the fate of the Tiger chief was not immediately known, the military was confident that he could have been in the heavily fortified bunker at the time of the raid. `We are awaiting confirmation from our intelligence operatives on the ground,` a high ranking military officer told The Island adding that he was almost certain Prabhakaran had been there at that time. `The bunker has been reduced to dust,` he claimed, `several LTTEleaders may have bee killed.`
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Several factors led to CFA abrogation - President Wednesday, 23 January 2008 - 9:17 AM SL Time The killing of TNA MP T. Maheswaran and indiscriminate attacks on civilians prompted the Government to abrogate the Ceasefire Agreement, President Mahinda Rajapaksa disclosed yesterday. Addressing senior media personnel at Temple Trees, President Rajapaksa said Maheswaran, though an Opposition politician, worked closely with him to solve the problems of the Tamil people. `He took me to Jaffna to open a training centre for Hindu priests. He provided us ships to transport goods to the people of Jaffna when the A9 road was closed. His death moved me deeply and made me think, is there any use of having a CFA,` the President told the media.
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Sinhala cinema and Film Corporation celebrate anniversaries Tuesday, 22 January 2008 - 4:59 AM SL Time Several programmes are on the cards to mark the 61st anniversary of the local cinema industry and the 36th anniversary of the National Film Corporation. The Sri Lankan cinema commenced with the screening of the first film `Broken Promise` in the year 1947. Dr. Lester James Pieris turned a new page in the Sinhala cinema with the production of the film `Rekawa` without being dependent on Indian films. The National Film Corporation made an immense contribution to the industry. Many local films came in for international acclamation during this period.
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Dialog TV launches another South Asia`s first DVBT Thursday, 24 January 2008 - 8:35 PM SL Time South Asia`s inaugural Terrestrial Digital Television Broadcast went on air yesterday with the commencement of Dialog Televisions Pilot Launch of DVB?T (Digital Video Broadcast ? Terrestrial) based Terrestrial Digital Television covering the Greater Colombo area. The DVB ?T broadcast standard enables digital broadcasts over the standard VHF/UHF television spectrum, enabling the consumer to access the digital broadcast using analogue televisions and VHF/UHF antennae with the addition of a DVB-T or a setup box. The broadcast would also be available on vehicle-mounted devices such as car TV`s and via DVB-H technology on advanced GSM/3G handsets. Dialog Telekom Group Chief Executive Dr. Hans Wijeyasuriya said that Dialog Telekom will merely act as a `platform` carrying signals and building infrastructure and not take on the role of a channel provider.
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BOI facility abused claims Customs union Wednesday, 23 January 2008 - 9:04 AM SL Time The All Ceylon Customs Service Union said an influential business tycoon imports vehicle components and assembles luxury vehicles at a workshop in the premises of an industrial zone at Veyangoda that belongs to the Board of Investment. Right now there are over one hundred such luxury vehicles assembled and kept ready for sale at much cheaper prices than imported vehicles. The Union in a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa said though there is a ruling that vehicles over three and a half years old from the date of manufacture cannot be imported and also there is a ban on importing components to be assembled locally for sale as imported vehicles, this individual has a special exchange permit to indulge in this illegal business.
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Indian shares hit by global fall Tuesday, 22 January 2008 - 11:13 PM SL Time Share prices fell sharply on Tuesday at India`s two main indices, amid fears that a recession in the US could lead to a global economic slowdown. Mumbai`s main Sensex stock index fell 9.8% within minutes, triggering an automatic one-hour halt in trading. It recovered to close 4.97% down. The rival National Stock Exchange closed 5.9% down. Finance Minister P Chidambaram urged Indian investors to `remain calm` and ignore the turmoil in Western markets. `There`s no reason at all to allow the worries of the Western world to overwhelm us,` he said. He said the Indian economy was expected to grow at 9% this year and 8.5% next year. Fears of a global recession have triggered falls in share prices on markets worldwide.
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Beggar woman`s quintuplets and the multitude as kings Thursday, 24 January 2008 - 8:34 PM SL Time Sri Lanka`s political party system like politicians who do nothing but go forth and multiply keeps mushrooming. Parties have come to resemble a herd of goats grazing on a parched paddock and struggling for survival at one another`s expense. It is a classic example of the survival of the fittest. Most of them are skin and bones and only a few look healthy. Yesterday, five more political parties were registered. With those quintuplets of the beggar woman that is the party system, the tally has risen to 53. (Only god knows what the score will be tomorrow!) Forming political parties is apparently becoming the nation`s most popular pastime?perhaps second only to viewing cheap humdrum soap operas. Most political parties, like ceasefire agreements in this country, exist only on paper. Legally, all the parties that contest an election are entitled to security and airtime on state owned TV and radio. They make a business of those things and lend to the highest bidder their slots for polling agents who, more often than not, work for either of the two main parties at an election.
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From Eelam to Tanamalwila Monday, 21 January 2008 - 11:15 AM SL Time What has gone wrong with the LTTE? It has had to revert to the tactics it employed at the very inception of its terror campaign. During the last few days, we have heard of an LTTE group snuffing out innocent lives in some parts of the Moneragala District. Trapped in the Wanni, Prabhakaran may be trying to cause the military to be spread thin by causing trouble in the southern parts of the country. But, how long can the LTTE sustain such operations? Sparrow groups are, no doubt, a potent weapon in the hands of any terrorist group. But, such attacks are hardly a remedy for the crisis that the LTTE is embroiled in. Internationally, its allies have failed to mobilise enough support to prevent it being encircled in the Wanni. Its small groups in Moneragala may go on unleashing terror for some time but before long they will run out of ammunition or be hunted down by the army and the STF. Now that the LTTE`s stronghold is in the danger of being overrun, it cannot afford to spare more combatants for disruptive operations in the South or co-ordinate them. Now the villagers of Tanamalwila may be running for fear of armed Tigers but the day the Tigers are left with no ammunition, they will have to run equally fast to avoid the galkatas carrying chena cultivators who know the jungle like the back of their hand.
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When complacency and negligence kill Friday, 18 January 2008 - 12:40 PM SL Time Terrorists, it is said, have to be lucky only once but their targets have to be lucky all the time. Complacency is the last thing that a country battling terrorism could afford. But, that exactly is what this country indulges in! Most of the terror strikes that we have suffered could well have been averted, had the police and the security forces been vigilant enough. As for Wednesday`s blast and the subsequent terrorist shooting which left over 30 persons dead in Buttala, evidence has surfaced, as we reported yesterday, that some Argus-eyed villagers had informed the army and the police of the suspicious movements of a group of unknown persons prior to the terror strike. Had they acted on the tip off, they could have pre-empted the attack. Perhaps, the army would have been able to intercept the LTTE group. We only hope the Army Commander and the IGP will launch an investigation and bring the officers who didn`t heed the public warning to book.
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Mahela`s pal Sarwan not bothered about captaincy Thursday, 24 January 2008 - 8:32 PM SL Time Ramnaresh Sarwan, whose admirers include Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene, is unsure if he will regain the captaincy of West Indies from Chris Gayle when he returns from injury. Sarwan, 27, has not played international cricket since injuring his ankle in November and is currently recuperating by playing for Guyana in the Carib Beer series. In his absence, Gayle (Perhaps Captain Cool No: 2 after our own Arjuna Ranatunga), skippered West Indies during their tour of South Africa, leading the side to their first five-day win in almost three years during the opening Test. Sri Lanka tour WI in March Sarwan hopes to regain his place in the side for the home series against Sri Lanka in March but will not be upset if Gayle retains the captaincy.
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Strong PM`s XI named to play Sri Lanka Tuesday, 22 January 2008 - 11:16 PM SL Time Cameron White will captain a Prime Minister`s XI stacked with in-form domestic players for Wednesday week`s one-day match against Sri Lanka at Canberra`s Manuka Oval. The side includes two current CA contracted players in White and Ben Hilfenhaus along with the likes of David Hussey, Ashley Noffke, Luke Pomersbach, Luke Ronchi, Shaun Marsh and Doug Bollinger. The match will be a key part of 2007 World Cup finalist Sri Lanka`s preparations for next month`s international triangular one-day series in Australia. `Cameron White is one who has used the PM`s XI match to help develop as an international player,` said CA`s chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch. `He will captain the side again this year after leading the side in 2007 when Jason Gillespie pulled out through injury.
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Winds of change Friday, 18 January 2008 - 12:40 PM SL Time It was always a case of when and not if Arjuna Ranatunga would head Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). His stature within Sri Lankan cricket after having taken them to the World Cup crown in 1996 meant that he`d always play an influential role in the administration if he wanted to - which he did. However, it was a surprise that he had to wait nearly eight years since his teary-eyed farewell from international cricket in mid-2000. Finally, though, as the political landscape shifted in the aftermath of a crucial budget vote in December, he is the boss. From the sidelines he has been an outspoken critic of the various chairmen and presidents, mostly businessmen, who have run SLC. While others mumbled quietly about `mismanagement`, he thundered on about `corruption and waste` much to their annoyance. He has always said he could run the board better, now he has a chance to prove it.
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