LTTE's so called "International Support"

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U.S. Government Enhances Sri Lanka’s Maritime Security Capability

Colombo, November 9, 2007: U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert O. Blake, Jr. formally handed over a radar-based maritime surveillance system and several Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIBs) to the Sri Lankan Navy on November 8 at the Naval Dock Yard in Trincomalee. Vice Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda, Commander of the Sri Lankan Navy, received the equipment on behalf of the Sri Lankan Government.

The equipment was provided under Section 1206 of the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act, which provides authority for the U.S. Department of Defense to assist in equipping and training partner nations to deter global terrorist activity.

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Sri Lankan Rebels Regret Norway's Silence on Negotiator's Death

Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam criticized peace negotiator Norway for failing to comment on the killing of the group's political chief in an air force raid, saying he wasn't a military target.

Norway's official silence on the Nov. 2 death of S.P. Thamilchelvan is ``viewed with serious concern and is regretted by the Tamil population,'' TamilNet cited P. Nadesan, the new political head, as telling Norwegian peace monitors when they met in northern Sri Lanka yesterday.

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