Promoting treachery - a new dimension to political affairs

I was told yesterday by one of those NGO activists who had benefited hugely from foreign funding that several embassies were furious with me because of an article I had written about a meeting at the house of the American ambassador at which UN officials were present.

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The Morning Inspection

Why Obama could not be euphoric about killing Bin Laden

It is reported that wild celebrations had swept across the United States of America. They celebrated and demonstrated such triumphalism that the less informed might have thought the US had wiped Al Qaeda off the face of the earth. Obama, like his predecessor had set a modest target (capturing and killing a single individual). He had in the process killed hundreds of thousands more, and turned more than half a million people into IDPs,

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Incompetence, wastage and perversity overcome at Menik Farm

This again is sleight of hand. The main complaint was of the closed nature of the Welfare Centres, and this was changed once security considerations had been satisfied, even though there was opposition to this from some sections of the security forces (see the letter of resignation sent by Sarath Fonseka), basically within the time frame that had been discussed with Prof Kalin.

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