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MULLAITTIVU: ARMY troops continuing their deep searches further into areas where pitched battles occurred went on collecting more and more LTTE weapons and explosives that had been either kept buried or left behind during the last phase of the rescue mission.  Those recoveries were largely made from   AMPALAVANPOKKANAI, UDAYARKATTUKULAM, PARANTHAN west in PALLAIKULAM and PUTHUKKUDDIYIRIPPU east areas. Wednesday (03) collections included twenty-four T-56 weapons, one pistol, four hundred and thirty 9 mm pistol ammunition, two Sub Machine Guns (SMG), one thermo baric weapon, twelve anti personnel mines, one M-75 pistol and one magazine.

LONDON Assembly member, Brian Coleman, has said that Tamil protesters should quit the London Parliament Square, Media Newswire reported yesterday (3). His comments follow a written answer from Mayor Boris Johnson, which said that the cost to the Metropolitan Police of policing the protests between April 6 and May 18 is £7.94 million.“£7.94 m is an enormous amount of money to spend policing this protest and it’s a total disgrace that the London taxpayer has been forced to foot the bill for a demonstration about a civil war in Sri Lanka which has nothing to do with Britain,” Mr. Coleman said.

THE APPALLING behaviour of the West since we started to succeed in our war against terror has been deeply upsetting. In order to deal with it successfully however, we must cease to be sentimental about our old friends and patrons, and analyse why they are now being so horrid. I believe there are six types of rationale, some of which shade into each other, not all of which are all bad. If indeed the motivation is the clearly wicked one, then there is nothing we can do about it except find support wherever we can.

SUNDAY (31) marked the 4th death anniversary of yet another fallen hero who was brutally assassinated by the LTTE. Lt. Col Tuan Nizam Muthaliff was the former Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Military Intelligence Corps. He was an officer with whose guidance and insights, several successful military operations to attack strategic locations of the LTTE were staged. “For him duty always came first, even before his family,” said his wife, Lt. Col. Kumudini Muthaliff Amarasinghe. “He was so focused on winning this war, that even being out of the country for a short period made him feel guilty of not being here to finish it. It was everything he wanted. Hence it certainly is a relief for me too, now that the war is finally over.”