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Men and Matters
Employment of foreign military and intelligence personnel
by Kautilya

'President to check allegations of Mossad involvement in North-East' said a three-column front page headline in the Sunday Island.

No, no, not again, I told myself. Remember Article 2 of the Exchange of Letters between El Presidente J. R. Jayewardene and young Rajiv Gandhi? (You hear me down... I mean up there, Junius Richard alias Junius the Genius).

'Your Excellency and myself will reach an understanding about the relevance and employment of foreign military and intelligence personnel with a view to ensuring that such presences will not prejudice Indo-Sri Lankan relations'.

The pressure came from New Delhi's South Block and NOT from Muslim leaders in this country, though there were some token protests from Dr. Baduidin Mahmud, the veteran SLFP member and former Education Minister who had his own Islamic party strongly allied to the Bandaranaikes.

Right now, the PLO and President Yasser Arafat presides over a 'Palestinian Authority' little more than a municipality, that exercise less authority in Mayor Karu Jayasuriya in Colombo!

Dr. President Chandrika and her top advisers like Secretary Balapatabendi know how MOSSAD operates? As an introduction I would recommend Robert Payne's ISRAEL's MOST SECRET SERVICE, though to my best knowledge it was an outfit called SHABAK (not to be confused with SHINBETH) which provided the expertise to J.R.'s closest aides, including a member of his family, no longer here.

Ranil Relaxed
Dammit I thought the 'Greens' chief was cornered, helpless, etc., etc. And there he was relaxing way out in Mahiyangana... enjoying a plain tea and some hakuru... risky, risky... what if a TV team is trailing him?

JainCommission
And now it is Justice Milap Chand Jain, a retired Indian judge, who accused MOSSAD of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, and hinted strongly at a CIA connection... on information evidently supplied by PLO leader Yasser Arafat. In his interim report, which took several years to be officially released, Justice Jain observed:

'The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi would not have been possible the way it materialised without the deep nexus of the LTTE operatives with the Tamils and Tamilnadu and the tacit support of the state authorities and the law enforcement agencies'.

And that meant the involvement of the Tamilnadu police and the covert agencies! Poor honest I. K. Gujral had to pay the price. Since the DMK was in charge of Tamilnadu, at the time, it pulled out and prime minister Gujral's loosely knit 'alliance' collapsed.

Over to you, Sonia...

Muslim Leader
A compliment the SLMC leader and PA cabinet minister would surely appreciate. And quite highly too. 'Mr. Ashraff who is serving the country with deep humanism and political wisdom is not a communalist.

Therefore we will oppose anyone who accused him of communalism' said Ven. Poddala Chandananda Thera at a conference in Ampara.

No, he is NOT a communalist. He is a smart politician. He comes from a province that is an important theatre of the armed conflict, and certainly a vital part of any 'political settlement'. In the eastern province, the Muslims hold the balance...33%.