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The sale of `Thina Murasu,` a most popular Tamil weekly paper has been banned in Paris by Parithi, the head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in France.

LTTE continues with its barbaric act of throttling the freedom of expression and human rights, not only in North and East of Sri Lanka, but also in France, a country that championed the cause of human values and human rights, by choosing to impose ban on the sale of `Thina Murasu,` - on the World Human Right day.

PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA IS NOT WITHOUT POWERFUL FRIENDS TO WATCH IN TAMIL NADU LIKE MANISHANKAR AIYAR

(By Walter Jayawardhana)
While Dalit Panthers of India (DPI) leader Thirumavalavan, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazagam (MDMK)leader Gopalaswamy Vaiko, and Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) leader S. Ramados, long time friends of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were rabble rousing against visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa he is not without friends from Tamil Nadu

Geo-political genesis and Indian options
Like (in) Nepal,India is backing out in Sri Lanka too
By Subramanian Swamy

For India to play a role, the genesis of the Sri Lanka crisis has to be clearly understood. At present international facilitators such as the Norwegians have not much clue about the cause of the crisis. Hence they flounder.

The Mole and the Terrorists
By Holger Stark

Omar Nasiri infiltrated the Islamist terrorist network for European intelligence agencies. He got to know terrorist leader Osama bin Laden`s top lieutenants in Afghanistan. Today he lives in hiding in Germany.

Terror spy Omar Nasiri met many of bin Laden`s lieutenants in Afghanistan.
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AFP

Terror spy Omar Nasiri met many of bin Laden`s lieutenants in Afghanistan.
Nasiri knows what they say about people like him. He is familiar with the disparaging glances and the evasive promises of officials at Germany`s domestic intelligence agency. Most of all, he knows that there is one sentiment shared by intelligence agents the world over: They love betrayal but not the betrayer.

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New Delhi, Nov 29: Virtually rebuffing LTTE for declaring intentions to resume all-out armed campaign, India today emphasised the need for finding a negotiated settlement to Sri Lanka`s problems
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The view was underlined when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse here and held a detailed discussion on the peace process in the island nation amid concerns over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in LTTE-held Jaffna peninsula.

?In his annual `Heroes` Day` statement, the leader of the terrorist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Velupillai Prabhakaran, attempts to shift blame for the conflict that is tearing apart the small South Asian country away from his violent rebel group and onto the Sri Lankan government. The speech, which in theme varies little from the statements of previous years, likely marks the outright end of the slowly crumbling 2002 ceasefire and augurs very badly for the hope of renewing peace talks. Prabhakaran`s argument, more propaganda than fact, that the Tigers have worked for peace but been forced to fight is based on a series of false premises, and is an attempt to win sympathy and support from the international community.

Nov/29/2006
By Staff Writer

Norwegian special envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer will visit Sri Lanka this week, but Oslo has decided not to take any more peace initiatives following a virtual state of war in the island nation.

Hanssen-Bauer will be in Colombo shortly after President Mahinda Rajapaksa returns from New Delhi and shall also travel to the northern town of Kilinochchi to meet leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

(LeN-Nov. 29, 10.30 am) The United States yesterday rejected LTTE leader Velupillai prabhakaran`s claim that the Tamil people had no option but to fight for a separate state and called on the LTTE to get back to peace talks.

`We believe that the government and the LTTE should sit down and discuss a peaceful solution through sharing of power .US sees a clear path to end the ongoing conflict` US Ambassador Robert Blake said.

God decided to encourage people to have less children and introduced an award scheme.

During the procedure at one point he concentrated on learning about the situation in Sri Lanka:

He first met J.R.Jayewardene in heaven, and asked him how many children he had during his time on earth. J.R. replied only one! Happy with the relatively good family planning adopted, God awarded J.R. with a Mercedes Benz!

Associated Press, Tue November 28, 2006 18:33 EST .
Judge strikes president`s authority to designate terrorist groups

LINDA DEUTSCH - AP Special Correspondent

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ A federal judge has ruled that a portion of a post-Sept. 11 executive order allowing President Bush to create a list of specially designated global terrorist groups is unconstitutionally vague.

U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins, in a Nov. 21 ruling released Tuesday, struck down the provision and enjoined the government from blocking the assets of two foreign groups which were placed on the list.

WELCOME TO AIR YINDIA

`Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is your captain PATEL
(Boniface)

Welcoming both seated and standing passengers on board of Air India

We apologize for the four-day delay in taking off, it was due to bad
weather and some overtime I had to put in at the bakery.

This is flight 717 to Mumbai. Landing there is not guaranteed, but we
will end up somewhere in ! India. And, if luck is in our favor, we may

By James Dunnigan
December 29, 2003

The War on Terror has had an unintended, unnoticed, but welcome, side effect; world peace. Since September 11, 2001, and the aggressive American operations against terrorist organizations, several long time wars have ended, or moved sharply in that direction. Many of these wars get little attention in American media, but have killed hundreds of thousands of people over the last decade. These include conflicts in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Chad, Congo, Kashmir, Israel, Kurdistan, Philippines, Burundi, Somalia and Sudan. Some of these conflicts diminished because they had been going on for a while and, as is usually the case, the participants got tired of fighting and made deals. But in all these sudden outbreaks of peace there was another factor; an American crackdown on terrorist activities around the world. The rebels in most of these wars depended on money raised outside their country to keep the fighting going, and on gun runners willing and able to get weapons in. American anti-terrorism operations, energized by the shock of the September 11, 2001 attacks, now included cooperation from many nations, especially in Europe, that had long tolerated, fund raising, recruiting and public relations efforts by various rebel groups. No more. Most of these rebel organizations had already been declared `terrorist groups` (which they were, as most rebellions use terror, the American Revolution included). Once the U.S. and other nations began to crack down on the fund raising and other activities, it became difficult to keep many wars going.

P.N Bhagwati, who headed the Indian Supreme Court in 1985-86 has accepted President Rajapakse`s invitation to supervise investigations into human rights violations in Sri Lanka, provided he is allowed due freedom to carry out the agreed task.

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