Chris Ryan, a former SAS trooper travels to Sri Lanka for an in depth documentary on the Sri Lankan elite Police Force, the Special Task Force.
Here's a link to the first part of his real life documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkomY92FSy8&feature=related. There are three more parts to the series and the remainder can be found on the same web page.
On the battle front, troops are on the move and have restricted the LTTE into an ever shrinking land mass of less than 4 kilo meters. SLDF troops also are capturing large amounts of weapons, including boats and other assets. The remaining number of civillians held hostage by the LTTE has now diminished to less than 15,000.
In other interesting developments, the top UN bureaucrat has been summoned by the SLG in connection with fictitious and cooked literature indicating unverified civillian deaths leaked to the international press. The UN official's tropical holiday in Sri Lanka is about to end, by the looks of it. The Sri Lankan government means business and in that context, kicking out a couple of UN wallahs are a worthy inconvenience.
The Norwegians are making noises too. Having tried hard to get the LTTE off the hook by all possible means, now the decietful salmon eaters are crawling back, mouthing soothing sounds which are meant to ease the distruct the Sri Lankan state and her people have of them. Sri Lankans need to be reminded of the old adage ' never fall into the same pit twice' when dealing with the Norwegians.
Surrendered LTTE cadres including various self-styled 'master' title holders are singing different tunes to the military interviewers. Daya Master, a one time tamil tiger big wig assures that the LTTE leader is a pussy who will never dare step outside his bunker and sacrifice every man, woman and child before risking his own life. He also assures that the LTTE leader is still hiding among the civillians and is awaiting a rescue by the international community.
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http://enduringamerica.com/2009/05/06/tuesdays-mass-killing-in-afghanistan-us-military-begins-the-lying/
Tuesday’s Mass Killing in Afghanistan: US Military Begins The Lying All day we’ve been following reports of the mass killing in a US airstrike in western Afghanistan. The aerial assault was called in after fighting between Afghan forces, backed by coalition troops, and insurgents. Estimates of the dead have varied from a few dozen to 120 — an accurate count may not be possible because some of the dead have already been buried — but the provincial governor fears about 100 civilians have been killed.
US officials quickly took the official line that any civilian deaths were regrettable but were at the hands of the Taliban. A fine example of that deflection of blame can be heard in the BBC interview of the American ambassador to NATO this morning (about 1:50:00 into the podcast).
Leaving aside the consequence that relatives of dead civilians are just as likely to blame the Americans who killed them as they are the Taliban, what is already disconcerting is the US attempt to cover up the scale of the tragedy. The US military says that it has “preliminarily concluded that about 11 civilians were wounded and that 11 insurgents were killed”.
How do I know that is a blatant lie? Well, because International Committee of the Red Cross officials have seen “dozens of people, including women and children” dead at the scene. The ICRC head of delegation in Kabul confirmed, “Those killed included an Afghan Red Crescent volunteer and 13 members of his family who had been sheltering from fighting in a house that was bombed in an airstrike.”
None of this, of course, is to absolve the insurgents of responsibility, giving the proximity of civilians to the fighting. Still, as Afghan President Karzai is in Washington for talks, this is already a glaring example of how the Obama policy in Afghanistan will be undone not only by US military action, but by the attempts to cover up the consequences of those actions.
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