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The Flying Tigers of Tamil Eelam Buzz Sri Lanka

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Apr 30, 2007
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Photo of the Galle Face Hotel in happier times, by Glenn Sundeen

At 1:50 am Sunday, when most of Colombo was either sleeping or watching Sri Lanka’s cricketing heroes succumb to Australia in the final of the World Cup being played a dozen time zones away in Barbados in front of their junketing president, Mahinda Rajapakse, the Road Warrior-style air forc…

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