The Brits have lost their minds. All they did was record the 2007 event? It's against the law, and yet this is openly scheduled?

What, they want to see more bombings?

I wonder if George Galloway is a scheduled speaker.

WTF? How can it be illegal and yet allowed? No wonder people in the UK are getting fed up and turning to fascists!

Notice, though, that the number of attendees declined from 8,000 in 2006 to 3,000 in 2007.

re: #3 Sharmuta

WTF? How can it be illegal and yet allowed? No wonder people in the UK are getting fed up and turning to fascists!

It does explain the popularity of the BNP, I guess.

Workshops and live demonstrations too?

re: #1 Dianna

It's against the law, and yet this is openly scheduled?

The Brits have a history of ignoring this stuff. Mosques are still preaching terrorism in the UK. At least the Tigers perform their bombings Sri Lanka.

The ‘suicide bombers day’ 2007 was filmed by the Metropolitan Police, but it was not investigated further.

Why? What is the point in having laws if they're not going to be enforced? This is madness!

The LTTE have been near wiped out in Sri Lanka, now they will try to export the cause. The Brits are crazy for allowing this. Starkers.

COEXIST !

/spit

re: #6 BignJames

Workshops and live demonstrations too?

C'mon - we need one volunteer!

re: #4 Charles

Notice, though, that the number of attendees declined from 8,000 in 2006 to 3,000 in 2007.

Which is all to the good, yes; but it's still really, really dumb to let this happen. The precedent is not a good one.

re: #7 Killgore Trout

We don't know what's being preached in mosques here, either. I must admit, it preys on my mind.

BTW: I haven't found definitive ties, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that the tribal nationalists in Europe are fond of the the Tribal Nationalists in Sri Lanka.

The old Communist adage that we'll sell them the rope they hang us with is alive and well in today's world of terrorism. Sometimes I think that there's a limit to how fair and civilized we have to be in the face of such monstrous hate. The idea that a group can publicly glorify suicide bombing is anathema to my way of thinking.

re: #8 Sharmuta

Why? What is the point in having laws if they're not going to be enforced? This is madness!

Keeping an eye on them? That's the best explanation I can come up with.

There seems to be a shift from suicide bombs to kidnapping.
It pays more and since it is quieter there is less press. And did I mention it pays more?
Roadside bombs exempt - for now.

re: #19 LindaMarie

There seems to be a shift from suicide bombs to kidnapping.
It pays more and since it is quieter there is less press. And did I mention it pays more?
Roadside bombs exempt - for now.

Do you mean in Sri Lanka, or where?

re: #21 Dianna

In Afghanistan.

re: #19 LindaMarie

There seems to be a shift from suicide bombs to kidnapping.
It pays more and since it is quieter there is less press. And did I mention it pays more?
Roadside bombs exempt - for now.

Less press? Didn't you mean less mess?

40 percent of LTTE funding comes from UK sources

OK, if they know how much and from where, why can't they arrest the "British" people funding terrorism?

/ do I have to?

re: #24 taxfreekiller

Those who live in glass houses built by wage slaves casting stones?

What are saying?

re: #15 Thanos

BTW: I haven't found definitive ties, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that the tribal nationalists in Europe are fond of the the Tribal Nationalists in Sri Lanka.

Nor would I.

re: #23 LindaMarie

In Afghanistan.

Thanks.

I had no idea the Tigers were so connected to Al Qaeda......

* The similarities between previous LTTE attacks against Sri Lanka Navy ships and the al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole which killed 17 US Navy sailors.[75]

* The anti-rebel website "South Asian Terrorism Portal" claimed that the LTTE provided forged passports to Ramzi Yousef, the man who was one of the planners of the first attack against the World Trade Center in New York in 1993.[76]

* The anti-rebel website "South Asian Terrorism Portal" claimed that there are increasing intelligence reports that the LTTE was smuggling arms to various terrorist organizations, including islamic groups in Pakistan and their counterparts in the Philippines,[77] using their covert smuggling networks, and findings by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies that they were building commercial links with al-Qaeda and other militants in Afghanistan.[78][79]

....etc...etc....

The LTTE are some of the lowest scum of the earth. They are a *secular* terrorist group that pioneered suicide bombing and have assassinated many key ministers in the Sri Lankan government. They are worse by far than the various secular terrorist groups that have existed in Europe and the United States in the last four decades. The closest analogue is the Palestinian terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah - movements that have their own territory.

Their support base on their native island is collapsing as the Sri Lankan government is beating them back militarily. The rebel capital is under siege from 3 sides.

The British need to enforce their laws. Just as the efficient shutdown of fundraising in the US was critical to bringing the IRA to the negotiating table, shutting down foreign LTTE funding is critical to bringing that insurgency to the table and bringing it to a final end.

re: #27 LindaMarie

He's working on a poem, I think.

re: #4 Charles

Notice, though, that the number of attendees declined from 8,000 in 2006 to 3,000 in 2007.

Suicide bombing has a tendency to result in diminishing numbers. ;-)>

re: #30 taxfreekiller

Just money, just lies, just law breaking, just greed, just someone else's
neighborhood, not important .

That is not an answer. You digress to avoid perhaps.
what did you mean?
Who has lied? And why?
Who is breaking the law? And how?
Who is greedy? Names and proof - just don't use the old - all of them mantra.
Someone who?

Film can be seen on the TNT Network.

re: #33 Dianna

So the last word in the next line should be:
owns
?
Rhymes it does!

re: #38 LindaMarie

That is not an answer. You digress to avoid perhaps.
what did you mean?
Who has lied? And why?
Who is breaking the law? And how?
Who is greedy? Names and proof - just don't use the old - all of them mantra.
Someone who?

Are you trying to comprehend tfk?

You just can't make this up, well at least not me. Latest from the online "Whats on in Kabul" weekly news letter.

This ancient land is telling the world that it has a trendy, new replacement for its dreaded poppy crop: sweet, juicy pomegranates. The country will stamp a logo on all boxes of the pomegranate for export: a drawing of the sliced, red fruit with seeds spilling out and a label that announces, "Anar, Afghan Pomegranate." Anar is the word for pomegranate in various regional languages. Afghanistan officials hope the Western-style sales savvy will raise the pomegranate's cachet and provide its farmers with a lucrative alternative to growing opium poppies. It's the latest step in a $12 million, U.S.-funded initiative to modernize and expand Afghanistan's pomegranate industry, which has long depended on domestic sales and small-scale exports to nearby countries. Even these exports have been severely hit by years of border fighting. Even though the Afghan pomegranate is considered one of the best in the world, it has been very much a local delicacy. The fruit is about the size of an apple, with a thick, reddish skin and hundreds of seeds embedded in tough, white pulp. This time of year, the red seed casings are consumed everywhere in Kabul - as juice, spooned straight from the fruit, or piled on a tray and sold by the scoop to picnickers in parks. Pomegranates are riding a wave of popularity in Europe and the United States, where they are celebrated for their high levels of antioxidants, which protect cells from damage by compounds called free radicals. U.S. domestic supply comes largely from California's San Joaquin Valley, augmented by imports from Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, Greece and Mexico.

re: #42 reine.de.tout
Respectfully reine - I can comprehend TFK just fine - course I had to work at it pretty hard a few years ago, but I do understand him and a lot of what he says is significant.
It really is worth the effort to read his comments, though he regrettably does tend to drag them through multiple threads until hammering the point home.
And I must not be the only one - TFK's "karma" is much higher than my own!

re: #41 LindaMarie

So the last word in the next line should be:
owns
?
Rhymes it does!

It's blank verse.

Hold that tiger. . .please

re: #42 reine.de.tout

Are you trying to comprehend tfk?

Was that a typo?

/never mind I don't want to know

re: #34 taxfreekiller

Truth why worry about bending the truth if there's money in it.

Well said

re: #44 realwest

Respectfully reine - I can comprehend TFK just fine - course I had to work at it pretty hard a few years ago, but I do understand him and a lot of what he says is significant.
It really is worth the effort to read his comments, though he regrettably does tend to drag them through multiple threads until hammering the point home.
And I must not be the only one - TFK's "karma" is much higher than my own!

Realwest, I understand what you are saying. I do indeed read his comments and will often get to his meaning. I do not have the intellectual heft of many (most) of the folks here, and it just takes me awhile.

Now I got it - tfk.
I agree with many of tfk's comments. Not always.

Hey TFK - is there an evil twin or do you sometimes just want to wake everyone up?

no sarc here

re: #43 LindaMarie

I am willing to assist any way I can... let me grab that bottle of vodka, a few pretty red seeds, and I too can help the Afghan folks.

re: #50 LindaMarie
Hi LindaMarie - if you can, please drop me a line (e-mail- my nic is in blue)!

Maybe the guy just wants one hot shower in clean water. If we can't get him at least let's keep an eye on him. I know what he has done and championed cannot be excused so don' blast me. The whole Islam thing is complicated. ///ducking
From What's on in Kabul.

SAUDIS OFFER ASYLUM TO OMAR, REPORTS SAY
Reuters, BERLIN – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has offered political asylum to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. The offer had been pushed by U.S. President George W. Bush and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, the magazine said in an advance report from its Monday edition, quoting government sources in Kabul. It did not give further details. A Saudi foreign ministry official was not available for comment. Saudi Arabia hosted a meeting between pro-government Afghan officials and former Taliban officials in September for discussions on how to end the worsening conflict in Afghanistan. An Afghan government official said on Wednesday Afghan government representatives and former members of the Taliban were expected to meet in Saudi Arabia soon for a second round of talks. The official said Karzai, King Abdullah and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari had discussed the initiative on the sidelines of a U.N. conference in New York this month. Omar is suspected to be hiding in the mountainous areas along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Karzai has said he will guarantee the safety of Omar if he wants to talk peace to end the hardline Islamist group's insurgency. Saudi Arabia has a history of providing sanctuary for exiled and controversial politicians, including Uganda's Idi Amin, who died in exile there in 2003. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates were the main supporters of the Taliban when they ruled from 1996 to 2001. The Taliban were overthrown by U.S.-led troops in 2001, weeks after the Sept 11. attack on the United States.

britain, please wake up. come out of your uncomfortable slumber.
your people, your culture and your country are worth saving.

Could that Wikipedia entry gush over a bunch of grubby terrorists more? Wikipedia is a dumping ground for wackjobs and propagandists who have too much time on their hands.

Splodee Day? Better wear rain gear to keep the bodily schmutz off of you.

re: #4 Charles

Notice, though, that the number of attendees declined from 8,000 in 2006 to 3,000 in 2007.

One might suspect - from completely lackadaisical manner in which the Brit's treat internal security - the attendee's had advanced notice of the picture-shoot and chose not to participate at principle event. Off-site, might have been a different matter altogether.

They just did it so they could say "my kid is the bomb"!

All should show up a day early for a live dress rehearsal.

re: #4 Charles

Notice, though, that the number of attendees declined from 8,000 in 2006 to 3,000 in 2007.

Because it's a consumable process?

re: #8 Sharmuta

Why? What is the point in having laws if they're not going to be enforced? This is madness!

"Madness? THIS...
IS...
BRITANNICA!
Now stop being a bother or I shall be forced to offer you a spot of hot tea."

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Let's hope this get-together is a blast!