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...general was taken into custody in accordance with correct procedure. Under Army Act section 57, any retired officer or soldier is considered a military officer for six months (after retirement), Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeyawardena told reporters today. Fonseka retired from the post of Chief of Defense Staff on Nov. 12. The government minister also warned that until court proceedings are concluded, any public expression of opinion about the matter is prohibited. "The opposition is trying to get innocent civilians onto the streets to achieve their political ends. They should not put innocent lives at risk," he said...
...disgusted at the way they have treated me and extremely disillusioned ... [My government-assigned security guards] are all new men. They could be an assassination squad - maybe they are trying to assassinate me." - After stepping down from his military position and entering civilian life in the opposition (Sunday Leader, Nov...
...surely this goes somewhere to explaining why foreign films and music are rarely featured in the Arts supplement. Similarly, the international affairs content on the editorial page, such as it is, can be ill-informed; take, for instance, the many op-eds written by American students after the Nov. 2008 terror attacks that variously and falsely suggested that Indian Muslims had identical political values to Muslims elsewhere and that there was little evidence for Pakistani involvement in the attacks...
...began in earnest with the December 2007 killing of four French tourists in Mauritania in what officials believe was a botched kidnapping. Successful abductions of Westerners then followed in Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria and, most recently, in Mali, where French aid worker Pierre Camatte was snatched from his hotel on Nov. 25, and again in Mauritania, where three Spanish volunteers and an Italian couple were kidnapped on Nov. 29 and Dec. 19, respectively. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...presence generated 10 times more Facebook fan-page interactions than Coakley's, according to a study released by the Emerging Media Research Council. As a result, Brown's name recognition zoomed in the closing days of the race, to 95% in a Jan. 14 survey from 51% in a Nov. 12 survey by Suffolk University...