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...Lanka The End of the Tamil Tigers? Once considered one of the world's most sophisticated and tightly organized insurgent groups, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) may be nearing defeat in its 25-year war against the Sri Lankan government over a separate homeland for the region's minority Tamils. Sri Lankan troops captured the rebel group's last remaining airstrip on Feb. 3, following the military's Jan. 25 takeover of the city of Mullaittivu, an LTTE stronghold. An estimated 250,000 ethnic Tamils remain trapped in the war zone, with human-rights groups accusing both sides...
Garrity, he said, understood Madoff's impossible returns, but the problem was location: Madoff was not in the New England region. Were jurisdiction not a problem, "he would have had an inspection team inside Madoff's operation the very next day," Markopolos said. Ed Manion, a 15-year SEC-certified financial analyst, also urged Markopolos to continue his investigation. Manion, he said, was the "only one who understood [Madoff's] threat to the public...
What's likely is that there will be at least some reversal of the relatively free-flowing trade and movement of workers of the past few years. The extent of that could be determined by just how bad the region's economies get. "We've already seen the rescue of finance sectors bleed into industries like automakers and construction at an extremely rapid rate - one that's accelerating further as frightened publics demand protection from national leaders," says Karel Lannoo, CEO of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. "This is undermining something the world learned in the past...
Just how protectionist will Europe get as the recession bites? So far, there's no obvious answer to that important question. Some European leaders have expressed concern about the region's protectionist reflexes, while others are already talking about ways to fence in their economies. In a few special cases, leaders appear to be doing both...
...Born in 1942 to a Bedouin family in the Libyan desert region of Sirte, he graduated with honors from the University of Libya before pursuing a British military education...