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On Sunday night (Sri Lanka time) the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE), the terrorist outfit fighting with the government in Sri Lanka, launched its first ever aerial attack dropping a couple of bombs on the Sri Lanka Air Force base at the Colombo airport. Yes the base is on the other side of the Colombo airport.

I actually flew out of the airport just a few hours before that (I'm in transit in Tokyo now). Usually I take a later flight (on Cathay) which would've put me on there at the time of the attack but this time I ended up in a different flight combination. Damn, missed all the fun ;-).

Yes, LTTE does have an air wing. "Air Tigers" they call themselves. They have a sea wing too- Sea Tigers. And Black Tigers, their suicide squadron; including Black Sea Tigers .. and I'm sure soon Black Air Tigers (kamikaze anyone?).  How do they get the weapons and technology?

They buy it from various countries and smuggle them in. Thailand, India, Afghanistan, South Africa, US, you name it. Some parts were smuggled in during the tsunami response time when security was relaxed to allow stuff to pass through faster. (For example, a container belonging to an international NGO was once found to contain a helicopter in pieces and it was going to TRO, the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization, a front of the LTTE.) Where do they get the money? They run all kinds of international businesses, have front organizations all over the world raising funds and practice serious extorsion.

This is what happens when the world "fights" terrorism with hidden agendas. There are well known LTTE front organizations operating in the UK, US, Canada, and all over Europe but nothing is done against them by those governments. I guess the thinking is still "hey if they're not attacking us then its not our problem."

The US of course has done this approach repeatedly- supporting one maniac after another as long as their immediate strategic objectives were met. The cost to the country was irrelevant. But by no means is the US alone in having double standards.

If you can't help fight terrorism at least don't support it directly or indirectly by permitting front businesses to operate and raise funds.

Terrorism is an international disease. It has no borders. Its like any other virus- it'll spread until either everyone is infected or until there's true isolation to prevent its spread. There's no room for double standards and for treating other people's terrorists as your friends. There is no such thing as "other people's terrorists."

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So India is (almost certainly) out of the World Cup. Big bloody deal. I love Indian cricket, and watching them play when they have a good day is really something special. What I dislike however, is the fickleness of their fans. Indian fans, by and large, are not cricket fans. They are only there to [...]

This says it all.

Beating India was sweet revenge. In the '99 World Cup, Dravid and Ganguly went on a run spree to eliminate us from the tournament.

I'm glad that we returned the favor!

For you cricket fans out there, last nite was a hell of a game! It was a must-win game for India to prevent elimination from the World Cup and we didn't help ;-).

My deepest sympathies to all my Indian friends ;-).

Now onto the elimination round of Super 8! It is quite disappointing that three Indian subcontinent teams (Sri Lanka, India & Pakistan) aren't in the Super 8 as everyone expected but two's better than one (Sri Lanka and Bangladesh).

The challenge is up to Sri Lanka to go ahead and win it all again like we did in 1996!