War is bigger than any man or woman

We need to remember what this is all about. Our nation is at war. We face a very tough fight in Afghanistan. But Americans don’t flinch in the face of difficult truths or difficult tasks. We persist and we persevere. We will not tolerate a safe haven for terrorists who want to destroy Afghan security from within, and launch attacks against innocent men, women, and children in our country and around the world

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The Morning Inspection

Of prisons, prisoners and stories that slip by

In the year 1994, Darron Bennalform Anderson of Oklahoma, USA, was found guilty of multiple crimes including kidnapping, grand larceny, burglary and rape. He was sentenced initially to 2200 years in prison and after an appeal (turned down) this was extended to a total of 11,950 years.

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Renewable energy, solution:

New action plan for CEB

CEB which has incurred a heavy loss can be resurrected with a new action plan – both in terms of financial and corporate. The trade unions also support this effort. Their suggestions are also included in the action plan. It is a bottom-up approach which aims at transforming the CEB into a profitable insititution

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Muslims: Part and parcel of this country

Justice delayed is justice denied. Today, in accordance with this axiom, the Justice Minister has done a very meritorious act in this House. Not for decades but for centuries, people have paid scant regard to the dispensation of justice.

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Remembering Lakshman Kadirgamar:

Eliminating global terrorism

Terrorism is no stranger to Sri Lanka. We, in Sri Lanka know terrorism, unfortunately, only too well. We know the horrific direct consequences of an act of terrorism: the carnage; the horror; the thousands of unsuspecting innocent lives lost or maimed, in the flash of an explosion; the thousands of families then left bereaved; the countless personal tragedies that terrorism leaves in its wake.

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