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Their arm shipments were caught by the SL Navy using the intelligence information given by the USA and India.

In a candid interview, former member of the JVP and founder Editor Ravaya newspaper, Victor Ivan says that nothing can compare to the defeat of the LTTE in post independence Sri Lanka and that another Tamil guerilla movement will not surface in the country.

'We confirm emphatically that the National Leader did not surrender and was not arrested but fought attaining martyrdom,' the group said citing, unnamed Tiger cadres who escaped the final military offensive.

TamilNadu remains on alert for LTTE
TamilNadu police have stepped up patrolling and tightened security along the state's coast to prevent possible infiltration of LTTE remnants from Sri Lanka.

Twelve coastal police stations have been put on high alert. The government has imported a hi-tech surveillance boat from Greece to bolster coastal patrolling, the Army website of Sri Lanka reported.

Meanwhile, India's counter-terrorism force, the NSG, is gearing up to set up its full-fledged commando unit in Chennai. The NSG commandos would arrive in Chennai and would function at the Police Training College in Chennai, the report added.

Christine Merrill who holds dual citizenship in the US and Sri Lanka has won the national championships in the women s 400 meters hurdles at the Division II- US National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships held at the Le Grand Sports Complex in San Angela, Texas a fortnight ago.

Merrill, an engineering student at the University of San Diego, California had entered the national meet as the top seed and lived upto the billing finishing the champion in a time of 58.59 which surpassed her personal best and the University record time of 58.86 set earlier this season.

Merrill is the daughter of Dr. Neloufa Merrill (nee Perera), an old girl of Ladies College, Colombo where she was an outstanding athlete holding the long jump and 4X100 metre school records. Her grandmother, late Lakshmi Perera (nee Wickremasinghe) was also an outstanding athlete and the Games captain at Bishop s College, Colombo.

Meanwhile, India's counter-terrorism force, the NSG, is gearing up to set up its full-fledged commando unit in Chennai. The NSG commandos would arrive in Chennai and would function at the Police Training College in Chennai, the report added.

Unless the U.S. President can break his hardline posture, the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan could prove his Vietnam.

Last month Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. State Department s special representative, met students from Pakistan s north-west tribal areas. They were enraged by drone attacks, which according to David Kilcullen, counter-insurgency adviser to General Petraeus have eliminated only about 14 terrorist leaders while killing 700 civilians. One young man told Mr. Holbrooke that he knew someone killed in a Predator drone strike. You killed 10 members of his family, he said. Another claimed that the strikes had unleashed a fresh wave of refugees. Are many of them Taliban? Holbrooke asked. We are all Taliban, he replied.

Describing this scene in Time, Joe Klein said he was shocked by the declaration, though he recognised it as one of solidarity, not affiliation. He was also bewildered by the mixed loyalties and deep resentments make Pakistan so difficult to handle. One wishes Klein had paused to wonder if people anywhere else would wholeheartedly support a foreign power that collaterally murders 50 relatives and friends from the air for every militant killed.