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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12701640" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNFPqCvNOwh0HczjvpO1PcljrgGiTDWptCEfj1PnxtZ2ELoRY-" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka's president has promised to free jailed former army chief  Sarath Fonseka unconditionally and at the earliest opportunity, the  ex-general's wife said on Thursday.Anoma Fonseka said she met  President Mahinda Rajapakse on Wednesday night and that he assured her  that her husband would be freed as soon as possible."I was promised that my husband will be cleared of all charges and released unconditionally," she told AFP.There  was no comment from Rajapakse's office, but an official confirmed on  Wednesday that the retired four-star general, who unsuccessfully  challenged Rajapakse in January 2010 elections, would be released  "within days".Fonseka fell out with the government over who  should take credit for winning the separatist war against the Tamil  Tiger rebels in May 2009. He challenged Rajapakse after quitting the  army.Two weeks after his election defeat, Fonseka was detained on  a charge of corruption relating to military procurements. He was given a  30-month jail sentence in September 2010.Earlier Wednesday,  Rajapakse met members of Fonseka's Democratic National Alliance (DNA)  party to discuss the terms of his release, DNA legislator Tiran Alles  told reporters.The moves come ahead of talks later this week  between Sri Lanka's foreign minister G. L. Peiris and US Secretary of  State Hillary Clinton in Washington.The United States has been  critical of Sri Lanka's rights record during the final stages of the  civil war, which ended with victory for government forces in May 2009.  Washington has repeatedly urged Colombo to release Fonseka.In  November, Fonseka was sentenced to three more years in jail for saying  that Tiger rebels who surrendered had been killed on the orders of the  president's brother Gotabhaya Rajapakse, who is defence secretary.Fonseka  has also angered the government by saying he would testify before any  international tribunal probing possible war crimes charges after the  United Nations said thousands of civilians were killed in the last  months of fighting. <img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif?hl=en" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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