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Explosives found on Sri Lanka aid truck

Thursday, 2 October 2008 - 8:47 PM SL Time

COLOMBO, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops seized explosives aboard a truck due to join a U.N. convoy to carry food into the war zone, where fighting killed 30 poeple, the military said on Wednesday. Troops found 2.5 kg (5.5 lbs) of C-4 explosives in a truck carrying food into two strongholds of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) separatists on Tuesday. Police arrested the driver and five other assistants, the military said.

Pictures posted on the government-run Media Centre for National Security, www.nationalsecurity.lk, showed what it said were 10 plastic-wrapped packets of the explosives in a suitcase.

The United Nations said in a statement it `deplores the placing of explosives by an unkown party on a government agent truck due to join a U.N. convoy`.

The convoy had been due to leave in the next few days.

The government last month ordered all aid agencies out of the north saying it could not guarantee their safety.

Diplomats successfully pressed to get permission for the U.N. to bring food aid to an estimated 200,000 people trapped in the war zone.

The military has moved to within 4 km (2 miles) of the LTTE headquarters town of Kilinochchi.

Air strikes early on Wednesday hit what the military said were a series of bunker hideouts and camps for female guerrilla fighters. Other fighting killed 26 rebels and four soldiers, the military said.

The LTTE could not be reached for comment.

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Randu097 Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 727 Member Profile	2 Oct 2008 13:52:14 GMT Report for Abuse
	Old news..

Pawan98 Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 2932 Member Profile	2 Oct 2008 13:55:29 GMT Report for Abuse
	Must be the newest way to look after the IDPs health and welfare

alwaysalion Senior Member Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 3654 Member Profile	2 Oct 2008 13:58:24 GMT Report for Abuse
	Explosives to heat the food.After all meals should be served hot...

Randu097 Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 727 Member Profile	2 Oct 2008 13:58:31 GMT Report for Abuse
	Arrested vehicle is not ours its GA's one -UN Col. office (Lanka-e-News, 2008-Oct-01, 11.00 PM) UN and its Colombo office says in a statement that the vehicle arrested in Vavuniya yesterday with explosives is not theirs and it is a lorry deployed by Vavuniya District Secretariat for humanitarian operations. Yeah.. what ever..

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2 Oct 2008 14:01:29 GMT Report for Abuse

Oopppss!!.. :O)))

AIADMK, PMK pull a fast one against Sri Lankan Govt.

(October 02, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) The absence of the AIADMK and the PMK in the protest fast organised here today by the CPI to condemn the killing of Sri Lankan Tamils has given rise to speculation that centre around the rise of Vijayakanth's DMDK.

The AIADMK, whose supremo J Jayalalithaa herself had announced that it would participate in the State-wide protest, may have been put off by the DMDK's domination of the proceedings here right from the morning.

At any rate, the wordy exchanges (through the media) between Jayalalithaa and Vijayakanth in the past make it clear that there cannot be any easy rapprochement between the two even for the sake of political convenience......

tigeress19 Senior Member Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 15580 Member Profile	2 Oct 2008 14:01:50 GMT Report for Abuse
	Those trucks were povided by gotabaya and fonseka..

Pawan98 Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 2932 Member Profile	2 Oct 2008 14:02:02 GMT Report for Abuse
	The United Nations said in a statement it 'deplores the placing of explosives by an unkown party on a government agent truck due to join a U.N. convoy'. Trucks were hired by govt agent in kilinochchi and were from there. so who else gonna place these other than the tigers or their agents.

tigeress19 Senior Member Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 15580 Member Profile	2 Oct 2008 14:03:11 GMT Report for Abuse
	UN taking the food to vanni must hurt the sinhalas... the trust is gone,....

Thalaivar Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 5811 Member Profile	2 Oct 2008 14:03:21 GMT Report for Abuse
	This is deliberate work of the govt and MI to delay the food convoy and discredit tigers

piranha Senior Member Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 2276 Member Profile	2 Oct 2008 14:04:37 GMT Report for Abuse
	Troops found 2.5 kg (5.5 lbs) of C-4 explosives Don't tell me this is a joke. This amount of explosives is going to make a hell of a big difference to the LTTEs arsenal and its fighting abilities. LOL More punnakku for the sinhala gullibles.

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