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Sri Lankan air force hits rebel areas
Houston Chronicle ^
| Aug. 18, 2006
| Cassie Biggs
Posted on 08/18/2006 10:15:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Sri Lanka's air force on Friday launched airstrikes on rebel positions in the north, an official said, and the government promised to send aid to the hundreds of thousands cut off there by the fighting... Hundreds of rebels and security forces have been killed in fighting in the Jaffna Peninsula since Aug. 11, when rebels made a major push to retake the Tamil-majority area... The United Nation's refugee agency said the closing of a key road to the north was preventing vital aid reaching the peninsula, where its 500,000 residents remain under a 22-hour curfew and food, water and other staples are running low. "We are sending 80 tons of aide to Jaffna. It will include food and medicines," said government spokesman, Keheliya Rambukwella.
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ceylon; srilanka
Oh, boy, the UN to the rescue.
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posted on
08/18/2006 10:15:34 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: Berosus; Cincinatus' Wife; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; FairOpinion; ...
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posted on
08/18/2006 10:15:57 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
Food, medicines, and pedophiles!
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posted on
08/18/2006 10:17:02 PM PDT
by
oolatec
To: SunkenCiv
Lemme guess- Muslims are involved?
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posted on
08/18/2006 10:19:08 PM PDT
by
REDWOOD99
To: REDWOOD99
Nope, the Sinhalese (majority and government side) are Buddhists and some Catholics, while the Tamils (the minority side and in rebellion) are Hindus with some Catholics as well.
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posted on
08/18/2006 10:23:44 PM PDT
by
NZerFromHK
(The languages may be dialects, but America is different from the Anglo world due to US Founding.)
To: SunkenCiv
Sri Lankan air force hits rebel areas Look out below!
To: operation clinton cleanup
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posted on
08/18/2006 10:28:41 PM PDT
by
REDWOOD99
To: operation clinton cleanup
Obviously this one has already dropped its load.
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posted on
08/18/2006 10:35:17 PM PDT
by
Khepera
(Do not remove by penalty of law!)
To: SunkenCiv
Sri Lanka has an air force??
who knew?
/sarcasm
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posted on
08/18/2006 10:40:52 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(flogerloon.blogspot.com -------------> Rise of the Hate Party)
To: operation clinton cleanup
Cute. This is a bit more realistic:
They also fly MiG 23, two or three types of MiL helicopters, some Antonov and Beech transports ... Certainly not USAF, but not atypical of other small nations.
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posted on
08/18/2006 10:47:37 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: ArrogantBustard
Cute. This is a bit more realistic:Wow! I had no idea......
To: ArrogantBustard
Is that a picture of the Sri Lanken Air Force? (sorry, had to do it)
To: SunkenCiv
The Tamil Tigers have made a great contribution to the world - they invented suicide bombing
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posted on
08/18/2006 11:07:36 PM PDT
by
dervish
To: dervish
Their steady decline in population puzzles anthropologists...
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posted on
08/18/2006 11:49:04 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: ArrogantBustard
They also fly MiG 23, Actually apart from a couple of MiG-23UB Conversion trainers, the MIG flown is the MiG-27 ground attack variant. (simpler intakes, stronger undercarriage, laser rangefinder nose instead of AI radar)
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posted on
08/19/2006 1:27:38 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
("You can either accept science and face reality, or live in a childish dream world" - Lisa Simpson)
To: ArrogantBustard; operation clinton cleanup
Those are their Israeli Kfir strike jets.
To: sukhoi-30mki
Those are their Israeli Kfir Yep ... which are apparently now owned by Sri Lanka (see 10 Fighter Sqn) ...
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posted on
08/19/2006 8:00:27 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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