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The guy was a minor operative of the Sri Lankan Intelligence, between 1984 - 1994. He was resourceful enough to use the material he collected during his work, and publish books on the Tamil militants. These are material collected by his colleagues, risking their lives. When the going got tough in Sri Lanka, he somehow ended up through a circuitous route, via USA and Scotland, in Australia. In 2001, the 9/11 incident gave him a god given opportunity to rise to the mainstream media. He became the toast of international media for a while, making bombastic claims and predictions. All the while, he was also subtly promoting his personal anti Tamil agenda, under the cover of academic professionalism, making claimns of LTTE links to every terrorist organisation in the world. But it is difficult to survive in the competetive world of Australian academia without having the real substance in you. He was found out and disgraced and went underground, in 2003. The world forgot about him. And with the destruction of the LTTE, he was fast losing his chance to rise to prominence again. The indomitable Gunaratne does not take things lying down. He has started his rise to prominence again, by smearing Tamil refugees with Tiger balm. By doing this, he is killing two birds - coming into world prominence and also giving vent to his anti Tamil bias. Only this time, he has added the title of Professor to his name. And the University: Nanyang.

Sri Lanka Military Leaders to be`Banned` from Europe


2009-11-06 | 12.50 PM

According to reliable sources from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the European Union is taking steps to impose travel ban on Sri Lankan military leaders and their immediate families. This is one step closer to preparing a draft resolution in the UN Security Council that would prevent Sri Lankan military leaders and their families crossing any international frontier.

Timeline: Fort Hood shootings
On 5 November 13 people were killed and dozens injured in the worst ever mass shooting at a military base in the United States. This is how the day unfolded.



1330 local time (1930GMT): Major Nidal Malik Hasan, dressed in army uniform, enters the Soldier Readiness Center, armed with two non-military issue pistols, including a semi-automatic.

Over a period of about 10 minutes he kills 12 soldiers and one civilian and injures 30 other people.

12 Dead, 31 Wounded in Base Shootings
MARIA NEWMAN
Published: November 5, 2009
At least one gunman killed 12 people and wounded 31 in a shooting on Thursday afternoon at Fort Hood in Texas. Military police killed one shooter, who had two guns, and at least two soldiers are in custody.

Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone, the commanding officer at Fort Hood, the largest active military installation in the country, said the base was in lockdown as military authorities, with the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigate the rampage.

Sri Lanka`s military commander left the United States ahead of possible questioning over alleged war crimes committed during the defeat of the island`s Tamil rebels, a legislator said Wednesday.

TAG interview with Radio NL on Fonseka
General Sarath Fonseka headed back to Sri Lanka without facing questioning by the Department of Homeland Security later in the day, Samantha Vidyaratne told parliament. `In the same way this brave soldier rid the country of terrorism, he is now on his way home without betraying the nation,` Vidyaratne said.

Analyse this

by Gary Hughes [Melbourne Age/ July 20 2003]

Whenever a comment has been needed about al-Qaeda or terrorism, Rohan Gunaratna has been there to supply it. Who is he? Rohan Gunaratna describes as a spiritually defining moment the day in March 2001 when he learned that the Taliban regime in Kabul had ordered the demolition of the ancient, giant statues of Buddha at Bamiyan in Afghanistan.

But it was the destruction six months later of an icon of the modern world - New York`s World Trade Towers - that changed his life in a more practical way, launching a stellar new career as a global authority on international terrorism. Gunaratna was the right person in the right place at the right time. The world`s media outlets were looking for experts to interpret how and why the world had changed and the Sri Lanka-born academic was great `talent`, providing dire warnings about the threat of Osama bin Laden`s shadowy al-Qaeda network. No one seemed to worry that, until the September 11 attacks, Gunaratna`s acknowledged expertise had been largely confined to the activities of Sri Lanka`s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or the Tamil Tigers.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa said no soldier who heeded his orders as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces of Sri Lanka to liberate the Northern and Eastern Province needs to worry as he was prepared to take the full responsibility of those orders and appear before any judiciary on their behalf.

The President was addressing state bank officials and youth representatives of the Galle District in the Temple Trees premises in Colombo, yesterday (Sep 19).

He is a career soldier. He was injured critically in a suicide bomb attack.
Then he devised a plan that worked against LTTE. His strategy overcame an enemy that others had not been able to defeat for 30 years. Until the fall of Killinochchi there weren`t any reports of widespread civilian deaths.
Who ordered the hospitals to be bombed? Who ordered the civilian massacres? Who ordered the killing of surrendered combatants? And who ordered the internment of the civilians in Nazi camps?

It is learnt that General Sarath Ponseka,RWP RIP RSP RSVP VSV USP FEDEX rcds psc VEERAYA S0B has been invited to the Dept of Homeland Security USA, for a friendly chat regarding the possibility of hiring the good General to train US Marines and SEALS how to fight the Taliban.

However, the General panicked, as he has a baggage of war crimes to his credit and has asked the GOSL to send in two teams of lawyers. The General has also reminded Mahinda that he should keep his promise that as Commander in Chief, HE (Mahinda) will face the tribunals and not the soldiers who carried out his orders. It is expected that HE Dr. Mahinda Rajapakse will rush to Oklahoma to defend his most famous soldier, and take the blame himself.

People have called me Da Vinci, Picasso.
Others have said it is Modachoon.
Thinkwinkz called me a nudist :))
Some have called me a terrorist and yet others have called me a Sinhala boot licker.
In my view these were my thoughts at various times during the conflict. Some may like it and others may not. I don`t apologise.
I just thought of showing some of my creations before I retire this memory stick.
The pics are not great and the editing is imperfect. But look at the message.
Feel free to trash me. I will be gradually limiting my LNP times. I will install my Coral programme soon - so my pics will get better.

Cause of death? It depends what you do for a living...

Death certificates reveal link with choice of career

By Andy McSmith

Friday, 30 October 2009

Work can be very bad for your health if you are in the wrong job. If you are a carpenter, fitter, electrician, plumber or gas fitter, you run an above average risk of dying from an asbestos-related disease.

If you are coal miner, there an abnormally high chance that you will die of pneumoconiosis, whereas if you are mining for any mineral other than coal, or working in a quarry, the risk is that silicosis will kill you.

Dias couldn`t do it. Vaas couldn`t either. Murali could only hope... and Aravinda de Silva? Forget about it! Bandula Warnapura had to give up the Fernando in his name!

Yes, since independence, no body has been president, prime minister or cricket captain of Sri Lanka without a Buddhist sounding surname!

Think of the Senanayakes, Bandaranayakes, Rajapakses, Wickremasinghes, Wickremanayakes, Premadasas, Wijetungas, Wijetungas, Kumaranatunges.

Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet

Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas

Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor

People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.

In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world`s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe
The internet has matured into a world of its own, and like the real world, it obeys certain immutable laws. Here are 10 of the most important.

By Tom Chivers
Published: 7:30AM BST 23 Oct 2009

Any internet user will know that the web, like the outside world (or meatspace ), follows certain rules.

We take a look at 10, with the most well-known and widely used towards the top and some of the lesser lights lower down. If you know any more, let us know below.

Moda mulane Dosthar Mahida Rajapasse is on a spate of opening new bridges and overhead bridges these days.
Many of these were started during Chandrika`s period, with foreign aid. But Modapakse claims credit for himself, as usual.
The economy is going down the pallam. And the only development the government is doing is building palams. Compare this with Mahaweli scheme or Victoria dam or Preme`s Gam Udawa. This man was hoodwinking the public with war hysteria. How long can he continue?