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...never get that far. I'm a lover, not a fighter...
What all these attacks have in common is their psychological impact. The 2007 air strike established that the LTTE had become the first guerrilla organization in the world to have its own air force. These aren't fighter planes, however. They are light propeller planes reportedly put together from parts smuggled into the country. But they are enough to carry out small-scale bombing raids. "Even though the government claimed that the Tiger's air attacks inflicted little damage, the psychological advantage the LTTE has won has served to significantly boost the rebels' morale and could embolden them to step...
...defended. "Old ways die hard around here. I know our President won't give up on changing the unproductive partisan habits," Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri Twittered within minutes of the announcement. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who has logged a decade as a political knife fighter, issued sharp words through a press release, suggesting that it was the Senator himself who had thrown his hat into the ring in the first place. "Senator Gregg reached out to the President," Gibbs noted, and was "very clear" that he would "support, embrace and move forward with the President's agenda...
...radically improved with new electronics, engines and other components without having to build whole new ships, planes or tanks. The F-16's builder says the latest version of that warplane rolling off Lockheed Martin's assembly line in Fort Worth, Texas, yields "the most advanced multirole fighter available today." In fact, the hottest F-16 now in the skies is flown not by the U.S. Air Force but by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates...
...despite Van Damme’s prolific career over the last two decades, the Muscles from Brussels hasn’t made a memorable flick since his too-cool-to-be-cool turn as Guile in the movie version of popular 90s video game “Street Fighter.” “JCVD” is like nothing anyone could have expected from Van Damme. A brilliantly entertaining confessional, the movie is the self-deprecating, self-referential drama-comedy that Van Damme now seems to have been destined for. Filmmaker Mabrouk el Mechri writes and directs...