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Started by Viking, May 17, 2009, 08:20:39 AM

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Viking

May 17, 2009, 08:20:39 AM
Norwegian papers are reporting that the Tamil Tigers are laying down arms (with exceptions) and that Prabhakaran is dead. Haven't found anything in the english language news yet.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Caliga

#1
May 17, 2009, 10:31:36 AM
:thumbsup:
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jimmy olsen

#2
May 17, 2009, 10:40:40 AM
If true, that's great.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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AnchorClanker

#3
May 17, 2009, 10:59:21 AM
P's body has not been positively identified, although it remains a popssibility that it's him.
Also, if the LTTE are finished as a "field army", there's nothing stopping them from returning to guerilla warfare and suicide bombing as their primary modus operandi.

Defeat as an 'army' doesn't mean that the LTTE is 'finished', it means that they still have the option to act as an underground insurgency, should they choose to do this.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.  - Reinhold Niebuhr

FunkMonk

#4
May 17, 2009, 11:04:59 AM
Don't give them any ideas Ank.   :yeahright:
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Mr.Penguin

#5
May 17, 2009, 11:11:59 AM Last Edit: May 17, 2009, 11:27:59 AM by Mr.Penguin
Danish TV2 news says that LTTE only has offered to lay down their weapons in return for international sponsored peace negotiations, the goverment rejected this offer...
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Viking

#6
May 17, 2009, 11:18:22 AM
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on May 17, 2009, 11:11:59 AM
Danish TV2 news says that LTTE only has offered to lay down their weapons in return for internation sponsored peace negotiations, the goverment rejected this offer...

Damnit.. this is what you get when all the journalists get the day off. (17 May is norways 4 July and nobody is at work)
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

AnchorClanker

#7
May 17, 2009, 11:21:21 AM
Quote from: FunkMonk on May 17, 2009, 11:04:59 AM
Don't give them any ideas Ank.   :yeahright:

Oh, it's nothing they don't already know.  I just don't want everybody doing a repeat of the chicken dance
that took place after Saddam's government fell.  If anything, we need to understand that there's end to phases
and THE END, and not to confuse them.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.  - Reinhold Niebuhr

Viking

#8
May 17, 2009, 11:27:09 AM
Quote from: AnchorClanker on May 17, 2009, 11:21:21 AM
Quote from: FunkMonk on May 17, 2009, 11:04:59 AM
Don't give them any ideas Ank.   :yeahright:

Oh, it's nothing they don't already know.  I just don't want everybody doing a repeat of the chicken dance
that took place after Saddam's government fell.  If anything, we need to understand that there's end to phases
and THE END, and not to confuse them.

They probably just need to find a few more guys like Colonel Karuna/V Muralitharan to run reconstruction
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

jimmy olsen

#9
May 17, 2009, 12:31:11 PM
In other news on the counter-insurgency front, Pakistan claims it has killed a thousand militants since beginning it's offensive.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30791770/

EDIT: 1,000th post! :cool:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
1 Karma Chameleon point

sbr

#10
May 17, 2009, 12:33:34 PM
A BBC article saying LTTE have declared a cease fire.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8054169.stm

Viking

#11
May 17, 2009, 02:05:55 PM
Quote from: sbr on May 17, 2009, 12:33:34 PM
A BBC article saying LTTE have declared a cease fire.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8054169.stm

They have been saying that for days. The temps running norwegian news media today said they had surrendered.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Eddie Teach

#12
May 17, 2009, 02:32:41 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 17, 2009, 12:31:11 PM
EDIT: 1,000th post! :cool:

Congratulations on removing the taint. :P
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Mr.Penguin

#13
May 17, 2009, 02:34:43 PM Last Edit: May 17, 2009, 02:37:35 PM by Mr.Penguin
Danish DRTV news says that they are still fighting around a small area of 100x100 meter fortifed with bunkers, the LTTE are useing suicide bombers to attack Army posisions. Sound like the last diedhard LTTE fighter wants to go down "Japanese" style...

edit: wonder if they shout "Banzai"...
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Mr.Penguin

#14
May 17, 2009, 02:51:02 PM
Reports of Tamli riots in India, uncomfirmed reports of attempts to steall weapons from an Army convoy...
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