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Pakistan Joins the War on Terror, Pakistanis Don’t
Pakistan Plays Friend and Foe to U.S.

Sri Lanka gave permission Tuesday to nearly 127,000 Tamil refugees to leave squalid and overrun government camps where they have been detained since the country’s civil war ended six months ago, an official said.

Sri Lankan elections officials said Friday that the nation would hold early presidential elections on Jan. 26 in what is expected to be a battle between two men revered for their efforts to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels.

The U.N. humanitarian chief says Sri Lanka’s decision to release Tamil refugees confined to government camps is good news but the United Nations is concerned about how they are being returned home.

Sri Lanka’s president signed a decree Monday calling for early elections, hoping to take advantage of his popularity after ending the country’s 25-year civil war to win a new six-year term.

Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they’ve been detained since the country’s civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday.

An senior Sri Lankan official says all ethnic-minority Tamil detainees will be freed from government camps Dec. 1.

I am writing this on Veterans Day. I call upon all Americans to step back, consider the unfathomable loss at Fort Hood, the ensuing apologia, and the tragic consequences of such behavior. This is a call to action. You’re either with us or against us.

Sri Lanka’s top general, who led the battle to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and ended the island’s 30-year civil war, resigned from his post Thursday but declined to discuss his future plans.

An official says Sri Lanka’s top general who led the battle to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and ended the island’s civil war has resigned from his post.

A group of 11 countries vulnerable to adverse effects of global warming urged world leaders Tuesday to reach a binding agreement at the next month’s global conference on the issue.

But virtually every Muslim country or country with a sizable Muslim population has a group like the Taliban waiting in the wings, to bring “true Islamic reforms” to the corrupt political culture. It is why Al Queda has a global foothold.

America should look to Europe — if, for nothing else, a grim glimpse of where the dark road of islamisation will take us. It appears Sarkozy is taking a page from Wilders’ playbook.

France Takes in Islam, The Deportations Have Started
Islam in action

Vinojan’s boyhood ended when Sri Lanka’s civil war reignited.

More than 4,000 ethnic Tamils displaced by civil war left government-run camps Thursday, the latest to be released amid international criticism that Sri Lanka is moving too slowly to let thousands of others go.

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

Undoubtedly, Islam and the Shari’ah have reached new heights in the United Kingdom, Muslim communities up and down the country have brought forth a culture and system that is not only superior to the British way of life but also a shining example of what true subservience to Almi …

Members of the Maldives’ Cabinet donned scuba gear and used hand signals Saturday at an underwater meeting staged to highlight the threat of global warming to the lowest-lying nation on earth.

Government ministers in scuba gear prepared Friday to hold an underwater meeting of the Maldives’ Cabinet to highlight the threat global warming poses to the lowest-lying nation on earth.

Maldives government ministers are taking scuba lessons and learning underwater signs in preparation for an unprecedented Cabinet meeting at the bottom of the ocean intended to highlight the threat global warming poses to the low-lying nation.

Sri Lankan soldiers fired on a group of war refugees trying to flee a camp in the north of the island, wounding two, the military said Sunday.

Honor killings on the rise in the West. The media gags itself and throws women under the bus.
Another young woman tortured and murdered to add to the gruesome gallery…..

Sri Lanka’s president promised Friday to send nearly 300,000 Tamil war refugees who are being held in military-run camps back to their homes in the next four months, the government said.

Hundreds of Tamil war refugees the Sri Lankan government said it had released from military-run camps last week were simply moved to other detention centers, a lawmaker said Thursday.

A U.N. rights expert called Thursday for an “independent and impartial investigation” into a video that purports to show Sri Lankan troops killing naked, blindfolded men during the recently ended civil war.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is sending the U.N. political chief to Sri Lanka to press the government to step up the release of nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians who have been detained since the South Asian nation’s civil war ended in May.

Sri Lankan authorities sent home nearly 10,000 war refugees Friday amid growing international concern for the nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians still detained in government-run camps.

This far-fetched analysis, and the refusal to accept the reality of Pakistan’s terrorist problem, owes much to the religious-nationalist leanings of many young but influential television presenters.

However, it is clear from a look at Pakistani history that for most of the past half century the Pakistani government has used Islamists as an extension of the Pakistan military.

The United Nation’s agency for children expressed concern Tuesday about Sri Lanka’s decision to expel its spokesman, and rejected allegations that it was biased against the government during the recently ended 25-year civil war.

A United Nations official has been banished from Sri Lanka reportedly after discussing how the government’s decades-long battle with Tamil Tiger rebels took its toll on children in the war zone.

Sri Lanka’s government defended a 20-year prison sentence given to a journalist accused of violating the country’s strict anti-terror law, saying he was given a fair trial and the decision did not impact media freedom on the island.

A senior UN official has called for an investigation into whether Sri Lankan soldiers violated international law by executing unarmed Tamils.

A Sri Lankan court Monday sentenced an ethnic Tamil journalist to 20 years in prison under the island’s harsh anti-terrorism law for publishing articles critical of the government’s war on the Tamil Tiger rebels.

COLOMBO (UCAN) — The bishop of Jaffna believes the chance that a priest who disappeared three years ago might still be alive is “remote.”

Even as it publicly refused to give Sri Lanka any offensive weapons for the war against LTTE, India had a “hidden hand” in the success of the island nation’s campaign over the terrorist outfit, says a new book.

Both these groups are Sunnis, to which sect the vast majority of Sri Lankan Muslims belong.

Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic leaders called for the release of ethnic Tamils held in military-run displacement camps on Saturday, saying they are confined like prisoners behind barbed wire.

Sri Lanka has lifted a blockade on the island’s holiest Roman Catholic shrine and will allow pilgrims to hold their annual feast there Saturday as a sign that the north was returning to normal after the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels.

A human rights group on Tuesday urged Sri Lanka to release hundreds of thousands of war refugees from camps hit by flooding over the weekend saying their lives were in danger from disease.

Heavy rains have destroyed or damaged hundreds of shelters housing ethnic Tamils displaced during Sri Lanka’s civil war, the United Nations said Monday.

Heavy rains have caused havoc in camps housing nearly 300,000 people displaced by war in Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north, an official said Sunday.

A series of satellite images taken over Sri Lanka’s former war zone showed the existence of large grave sites and evidence of possible mortar positions near areas that had been packed with trapped civilians, a human rights group said Thursday.

Sri Lanka’s ruling party and an ethnic Tamil party seen as a front for the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels have won the first postwar elections, held near the island’s former battlefields.

Sri Lanka hailed elections Saturday near an area once dominated by the Tamil Tiger rebels as the first seeds of democracy sprouting along the former battlefields of its recently ended civil war.

The arrest of the Tamil Tigers’ new leader has dealt a major blow to the rebels’ efforts to regroup and push on with their separatist struggle after being routed by Sri Lankan forces, the government said Friday.

Sri Lanka says that a wanted arms smuggler who recently took over as the new leader of the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels has been arrested overseas.

An international media rights group has expressed outrage at the Sri Lanka’s decision to ban journalists from covering the first local elections in the north since the military defeated the Tamil Tiger rebels.

The United States on Monday expressed concern over hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans displaced by war who are currently confined to military-run camps and pledged funds to help their resettlement.

The International Monetary Fund has given final approval for a $2.6 billion loan for Sri Lanka despite calls from human rights groups that the island nation should first address concerns over its human rights record.

The Associated Press bureau chief in Sri Lanka, who broke news of private U.N. reports outlining civilian death tolls, has been denied permission to remain in the country.

In just six months, one of the world’s largest camps for war refugees has been carved out of the jungles of northern Sri Lanka, complete with banks, post offices, schools and a supermarket. But no one is allowed out, and hardly anyone is allowed in.

In just six months, one of the world’s largest camps for war refugees has been carved out of the jungles of northern Sri Lanka, complete with banks, post offices, schools and a supermarket. But no one is allowed out, and hardly anyone is allowed in.

Sri Lanka’s government should be forced to rectify serious human rights abuses before it receives an emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund, a human rights group said Thursday.

Sri Lanka’s defeated Tamil Tiger rebels have named a man accused of running a vast arms smuggling operation as their new leader, two months after government forces crushed the separatist movement.

A French aid agency is demanding an international investigation into the massacre of 17 of its workers in Sri Lanka three years ago, after a government inquiry reportedly failed to identify the killers.

The Sri Lankan military was not operating in the area when 17 workers for a French aid agency were gunned down execution-style in 2006, the chairman of a government commission investigating the massacre said Tuesday.

A group of Sri Lankan doctors who have been in police custody for nearly two months were brought before the media Wednesday to recant their reports of mass civilian casualties during the final days of the civil war.

Midway through his five-year term, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he isn’t concerned that he’s not a household name.

Sri Lankan police say they have arrested a popular astrologer for publicly predicting President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s imminent ouster from office.