Everything about the govt is tit for tat - for their fellow politicians and for the LTTE and when the match is over they have finished their steam. N wonder then There isn’t an atom of intelligence remaining within the govt. The Indian did not have to tell about the 9 years in the making. Even we civilianns knew of it! At least the LTTE is trying to achieve something by hook or by crook, What have our pundits got till now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_PC-7

The picture from the Sydney Morning Herald shows a side-by-side two seater, and not a tandem two seater like the PC-7.

I think it’s needless to say that both of the planes could easily have been shot down using technology from 60 years ago. But with a little bit of skillful flying, some luck and a target that isn’t expecting you I suppose anything is possible.

Um - obviously you didn’t pick up on the fact that I was making a joke about the panels on CNN / Fox / BBC …

McDonalds is also very popular. And wasn’t Hitler also relatively popular during his time?

Thanks GroundViews for the scan of the newspaper…

After reading JustMal’s comment I checked the Herald Sun online news section and found this:
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Tigers bomb military base in first air assault
By Amal Jayasinghe in Colombo, Sri Lanka
March 27, 2007 04:00am
* Sri Lanka’s main military base bombed
* At least three people killed
* Probes launched into security breaches
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21453860-663,00.html
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the source is: Agence France-Presse. They may not have their own international correspondents.

To imagine that everyone in the world is so concerned about what sort of a magical plane this is and would have expert panels to discuss it, is just wishful thinking. It’s probably just an old Cessna with a crude gravity bomb housing. There is no conclusive proof that this was the actual plane used, and some people think the bombs were dropped by motorised gliders. Granted, this is an explosive sensational story, but there’s no real long term impact. They’ve exposed their hand, lost the element of surprise for good, but have failed to carry out their primary mission, which was to neutralise SLAF’s aerial power. I wouldn’t say it’s a cowardly act, but the LTTE must be quite desperate if they had to pull out their trump card at this stage.

It’s the SLA that’s making real gains in the battlefield. That’s what counts. Remember how the LTTE managed to kill hundreds of soldiers just a few months ago. Does anyone even remember where it happened? This would be forgotten in a few weeks’ time. The diaspora may finally have a reason to gloat after months of gloom and doom, but they are set for a massive and heartbreaking let down.

Friday March 23, 2007
A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk who applied for a job as a gun-carrying assistant superintendent of police in Colombo has been turned down - because he wouldn’t give up his saffron robes.
http://www.theage.com.au/oddspot/

If you are not familiar with the Ages oddspot….click the link above and have a look at some of the other news items placed in this section.

Eg. Monday March 19, 2007
Portugal’s Renova, one of Europe’s biggest producers of household paper products, has put a diamond-encrusted toilet-paper holder on sale for €100,000 ($A168,000). The bog bling is to mark the worldwide sale of 1million rolls of the company’s novelty black toilet paper.

I’ve uploaded a higher resolution photo of the illustration here.