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The Crocus Terrorist Attack: Steven Seagal, the Australian Embassy, the Perpetrators and Victim
An Observer in a Black Sea town …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi The American actor Steven Seagal has just visited the victims of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, who are now in the National Medical and … Continue reading →
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Why the West is wrong to blame ISIS for the Crocus Terrorist Attack
An Observer in a Black Sea town ” The American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) assert Russia has no evidence to claim Ukraine was involved in the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall on 22 March 2024.” Actually, the Russians do … Continue reading →
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Articles on the Easter Sunday Attacks in Sri Lanka, 2019: THOSE in April 2019
VARIED…. IMMEDIATE – APRIL 2019 Nirupama Subramaniam 2019 “Nirupama’s Incisive Appraisal identifies Islamic Jihadist Patterns in Easter Sunday Terror,” 22 April 2019, ….. https://thuppahi.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/nirupamas-incisive-appraisal-identifies-islamic-jihadist-patterns-in-palm-sunday-terror/
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USA’s Deep Demonic Reach Embraces Sri Lanka
Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose chosen title runs thus “Easter Sunday 20019 to IRIS Dena 2026: The Weaponization of Religion in the Indian Ocean World” … …. with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi The United States torpedo of the Iranian … Continue reading →
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Jehan Perera on Channel Four’s Slant on the Easter Sunday Attacks of 2019
Jehan Perera in The Island, 19 September 2019 The Channel 4 documentary that claims to give the story behind the Easter bombing has restarted the debate, within the country, about who was behind the foul deed, and why. The answer … Continue reading →
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The LTTE Bomb Attack on the Central Bank Building in the Heart of Colombo, 31 January 1996
Michael Roberts Colombo in the 1990s was a rather different world from the city today because its heartland centred around the Fort with its venerable shops (Cargills, Millers) leading mercantile offices, three premier hotels and the huge Central Bank building … Continue reading →
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Yemen’s Leverage in the Red Sea
Desert Wanderer By threatening to block the Bab al-Mandab Strait, Yemeni forces have successfully pressured Gulf nations into staying out of the wider war against Iran. This tactical leverage likely explains why these nations did not respond militarily to recent … Continue reading →
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Confronting Vicious Vituperation……
A RESPONSE From Thiru Kandiah in Perth – to – A Vituperative Verbal Assault on Michael Roberts From A Person who Signed Himself as “N W Goonewardena” ** My horror of involving myself in exchanges in public fora (to participate in … Continue reading →
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Surviving A Leopard Attack in Hill-Country Sri Lanka
Kamanthi Wickemasinghe in Daily Mirror, 12 June 2023, where the title reads “Hill Country Leopard Ordeals and A Survivor’s Tale” … with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Dusk had already set in when we reached Bogawantalawa last Friday (June … Continue reading →
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Awesome & Frightening Ramifications of the Israel-Iran War
In Your Face** … with highlights added by Editor, Thuppahi SEE Tim Anderson’s Views on al-Jazeera as one step towards understaning the present hot war between Iran and Israel …. https://youtu.be/r6euXK-_qec?si=CxUeWE2e-dwJFX01 … Re Tim Anderson’s views on Al Jazeera — … Continue reading →
