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...Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has staked his political future on achieving a military victory over the Tigers, following the collapse of a 2002 cease-fire. The Tigers have been fighting since 1983 to establish a separate homeland in the island's ethnic Tamil-majority areas, a conflict that has claimed more than 70,000 lives. To capture Prabhakaran - dead or alive - would symbolize the successful conclusion of a military offensive that began late in 2006 but has since dragged, despite the capture of nearly every town under Tiger control. Rajapaksa had one message for the Tiger leadership - above all Prabhakaran...
...With its proclaimed goal of rooting out terrorism, the Sinhalese-dominated government of Sri Lanka has systematically destroyed and taken control of nearly all of Tamil Eelam. This is the minority Tamils’ homeland, rightfully defended and governed by the LTTE following the 2002 Norwegian-led ceasefire agreement...
...four of the top 18 political posts.) But West says only one-third of the political appointees to top jobs are at their posts in the Commerce and Health and Human Services departments. And staffing is going slowly at the Pentagon, the Environmental Protection Agency and Homeland Security as well, he adds. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...Foreign Relations has added a tax-related item to the basic questionnaire it presents to nominees it is vetting, asking them whether they have reviewed their tax returns for the past five years and can verify that they are accurate. And officials say that other panels, such as Homeland Security and the Governmental Affairs Committee, are moving slowly in vetting the nominees that are before...
...border states. More significantly, the plan calls for stronger measures to reduce U.S. narco-demand, cut off weapons-smuggling into Mexico and lasso more of the billions of dollars heading to the drug cartels. "This is a supply issue and it's a demand issue," said Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary and former Arizona governor. Clinton's seemingly surprised Mexican counterpart, Foreign Relations Secretary Patricia Espinosa, conceded the plan was "consistent with our bilateral relation in fighting organized crime." (Vote on Clinton in the TIME 100 poll...