Fwd: FW: Gas [ pada / fart?] Attack in Colombo VERY SOOOOONNNNNNN.......

I'm getting sick of this 'Gas Attack' Threat Advisory that i got 13 times so far from different people within the last 10 days!

PEOPLE WHO SEND THIS KIND OF E-MAILS HAVE NO F..KING CLUE!
  
There is no effective way to survive a Chemical warfare agent on a civilian population, unless advance warning is issued to the population ( not this kind of warning!!!)  who have some sort of prior training/access to protective equipment etc.!and are supported by Early Warning system including Air Sampling/Remote Sensors etc.

Only marginally successful awareness/training/preparedness of a population on NBC attacks was in Israel,when they prepped their Northern Settlements for possible NBC attack in the 90s just before first Gulf War and few years later according to a leaked Israel Govt.report had stated that they perceived the 4 year long prep was with marginal results and in an event of such attack ,even in the scale of Tokyo attack would have left the population to mass panic ,with only people who may have a chance of escape using the gas masks/shelters would be families of Israel Defence Force personal while rest of the general population would perish/survive with injuries!

Someone needs to write to this Police guy and the ANCL lady as this is nothing but blatant scare mongering and spamming exercise!!! ! the ANCL Lady seems to be in close contact with 'MI' and her list of threat locations are at times hilarious! fact is the list covers all the urban towns of Colombo city minus majority Tamil areas!

And if there is a likely threat, then it should be the responsibility of the Govt (??) to prep the people of such threats.[we know well, thats not going to happen!!!!]
  
I kinda like the one of the ways of surviving Mustard Gas " 4. Do not vomit, drink milk "..
what the f..k..? Allied forces in WW1 should have issued such warnings/advisory with loads of milk to its troops in the western front during the height of Mustard gas attacks !!!!!

I'm not an expert on chemical warfare but from what i understand, CS gas is a non-lethal riot control agent that's whats called 'tear gas' in normal parlance, and the Military version of the CS is much stronger and are used in fighting in urban areas to flush out people from closed places without harming them.however, Military use of CS is now banned following the 1997 Chemical Warfare Convention,but Law Enforcement agencies and Police use the more toned down version of CS, and known as, like i mentioned before 'tear gas' in crystallized form for riot control.

The deadly Chlorine attack in Japan took place in an underground subway and the culprits , the Aum Shinrikio Sect used a big 100kg drum to kill a dozen ppl..

Since October 2008, LTTE has being using tear gas (not Military version of CS [TZ342] against Army Troops in Vanni, especially in defending LTTEs FDLs ,with not much impact on the troops other than as a delaying tactic as the forward assault units in practice don't carry masks with them as its a hindrance for their mobility to carry extra stuff, though front line troops are equipped with such protective masks!
  
In the context of mass attack as expected in Colombo, the LTTE would need huge supply of gas, have to have a way to transport it to a staging area and would need elaborate ways of delivering it to its targets, ie. open public spaces etc..

But we all know that we are at a time when the LTTE is finding hard even to blast a small parcel bomb in a remote part of Colombo,against their capability to strike as they wised just a few years back..its hard to believe in a mass attack in this context and the use of Aircraft to drop chemical bombs too.

LTTE Aircraft (provided if any operational planes survived the Army attacks so far..) have a payload of around 250-350kg, as seen from previous attacks! so even if they undertake a, one off Air attack (provided they have take off strip /manage to counter the present Air Defence network ) using chemical agents , it might not yield that much of a kill ratio that's enough to make a considerable impact.
  
Therefor dissemination of bogus/spam messages, even with good intentions, can harm the public . Besides, the dissemination of such messages quite often creates unnecessary panic/anxiety, prompts public to take wrong/counterproductive measures and otherwise puts unnecessary strain on already overloaded Security/Health resources.  

I really hope these people would take note and refrain from forwarding similar messages in the future.

        below is the 'Threat Advisory' thats being circulated en mass!

BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY...

Subject: !!!!! Gas Attack in Colombo VERY SOOOOONNNNNNN.......
   Dear All Friends TO BE ALERT ..
According to latest Intelligence reports, the LTTE has decided to
attack both military and civilian targets in the South to disrupt
civilian life as much as possible. MI warns of an LTTE plan to attack
   several major cities simultaneously including Colombo and cause
widespread panic and fear among civilians.
Borella
Nugegoda
Pettah
Kottawa
Homagama
Maharagama
Buses and Railway
Kandy-bus stand and railway station
   Gampola
The WTC twin towers,
Colombo
harbour and
the city of Kandy
are said to be among primary targets of the LTTE. According to MI,
LTTE intelligence cadres 'disguised as beggars', differently-abled
   people and sales representatives have already been
deployed to gather intel on these targets...
Send this to all your relatives & friends in Sri Lanka and inform them
to be alert.
Miss.Nadira.Gunatilleke
   Staff.Journalist
Daily.News(www.dailynews.lk)
ANCL
--
Gas Attack in Colombo VERY SOOOOONNNNNNN.......
   Its always beyond our comprehension, it's unimaginable sometimes. But
it always happened making us helpless and ashamed. Our defenses denied
LTTE having aircrafts. Proclaimed to shoot them down the moment they
   are airborne. Blamed people like Iqbal Athas as traitors for reporting
it. But now it has become a fact, they managed to invade our airspace
six times and escape without a scratch.
Recently media reported that LTTE is planning to use chemical weapons.
   Our defenses denied it bluntly, weeks after that they attacked our
army using chemical weapons. Well its said to be none lethal version,
CS gas. But this news is startling. It's reported that some of our
soldiers became ill after that.
   What if LTTE use these weapons on civilians, CS gas in a fully packed
bus could be lethal enough to kill many innocent people. Or they could
even use a lethal gas like Chlorine.Like in Japan.LTTE will only have
  minor effect on our army. If they use gas in open areas .Chemical
weapons are successful only if they are deployed in large amounts,
Possibly from air. But there is a possibility of LTTE using chemical
weapons on civilians. Government should take necessary steps in
advising the public of ways to survive a gas attack.
   Lets not wait to close the gate after the horse has run away. These
are some ways to survive Mustard or chlorine attack.
Chlorine Gas
1.Yellow,green gas with the strong smell of bleach might be chlorine
2.Move quickly into an area with clean air
   3. try to hold your breath until you move away.
3. Don't stay indoors
4. Move to higher ground ( chlorine is denser than air)
5. Pee on a cloth and hold it to your nose (urine crystallize
chlorine, this could be very useful . for our army).
   6. Remove cloths which touched the gas.
7. Do not vomit.
8. Wash your body throughly.
9. Stay calm, panicking may increase the amount of gas that you inhale
10. Don't try to cover your kids face, try to cover your nose first
   then you can help the kids
Mustard Gas
1. Burning or itching on the skin or onion smell gas is a sign of musted gas
2.Move to higher ground
3.Cover your skin to avoid burning
4. Do not vomit, drink milk
   5. Wash your body throughly.
If you have any other information please add-up, Can anyone translate
this into sinhala and tamil post in a blog, or circulate among people.
It Could be useful, lets not wait until the government do it, they are
   always late.
----
Dear All,
Please take all possible preventive measures on the interest of
security in your work places, homes, markets, schools, banks,
vehicles, trains, bus stops, temples, churches or where ever you move
   out. It may be on the road during your day to day business in the
future because, information has been received that very serious
calamity is been planed out by the LTTE to cause in the south or
central, in the coming period.
   Take care of your children more than any other times and educated all
inmates of homes, office,schools or else where.
Special attention have to be taken for those in the security services
and their homes etc.
   Please educate all your friends and relations on this to take adequate
care to avoid mass escalations to human lives and their properties.
if any suspicious person even a beggar is noticed by you, take steps
quickly to inform security authorities and the people around.
   See mail below for your interest.
With best regards
Caesar Ranaweera,

Contingent Commander for Sri Lanka ,
Team Leader/ Internal Evaluation Unit,
Police Commissioner's Office,
United Nations Mission in Timor Leste
   Caicoli, Obrigado,
Dili,
Tel:+670-3312210 Ext. 4606
Mobile :+ 670-7319012
Via Australia +61(8)89463900 Ext.4607
Via NY+212-9630099 Ext 4607
ranaweerac@un.org
   decaesar49@hotmail.com


    

Happy New Year - a Peaceful 2009

Let us hope that this new year provides Peace & Justice to a world in need and usher an era of Peace & Prosperity to Sri Lanka, with an end to this murderous War and the Scourge of the LTTE.

My prayers to all the innocent who lost their lives amidst the war,
the ones who died fighting for the freedom of this country and..
for those who lost their lives while fighting for a myth,
after all they too are one of us!

Let this new year bring peace of mind to all ordinery people of Sri Lanka and rest of the World..to all those who are tired of war and destruction,dirty politics and bad economics!

Tinker of Colombo.

Sunila Abeysekera ..where are you?

another day , another bomb and many more innocent civilians dead and we all know its not the Karuna group or the Sri Lankan Army thats behind it. there is no other entity in Sri Lanka , other than the blood thirsty LTTE of Prabakaran who takes pride in massacre innocent civilians.

the LTTE has marked another victory in their campaign to wipe out innocent civilians from the Sri Lankan soil and that campaign is gaining momentum .by looking at the innocent and unarmed victims of the bomb in a public bus in Kattubedda,Moratuwa today all i have to ask is where are you Sunila Abeysekera?

where are you?

are deaf today? did you not hear the bomb?

or may be your' in US , talking to the UN about defending Human Rights in Sri Lanka.

either way Sunila , thank you for all the things you have done for defending Human Rights in Sri Lanka and we are proud of you for winning so many awards for defending rights...

just one small question...

do innocent civilians living outside LTTE controlled territory have human rights?

Aranthalawa , 21 years ago ..And LTTE ethnic cleansing of Sinhalese of the East

Twenty-one years ago, 45-member group of Buddhist monks, headed by Ven Hegoda Indasara Nayaka Thero were cold-bloodedly butchered by Tamil Tiger rebels of the LTTE in one of the planned campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Sinhalese population of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. Many monks were very young novice monks aged between 12-16 years old, sons of very poor families of Ampara, Monaragala and Batticaloa Districts.

Today the mastermind of that campaign, the LTTE Leader V.Prabakaran is hiding under a deep cave some where in the Vanni jungles, still carrying out cold blooded killings, sacrificing young lives of Tamils in the name of a separate state, while his conies who carried the actual attack have de-camped him, with 'Col' Karuna Amman in custody in a UK immigration detention center and his deputy Pillian ,soon to be Chief Minister of Eastern Province.

We have moved on with our lives, we are trying hard to give space to the LTTE and its sympathizers or least people who renounced the LTTEs path of violence like Pillian, but we have not forgotten that day and we will not.

No so called 'Civil Society Organizations' in Colombo lights candles in the name of the victims and the families of the Aranthalawa attack , for the so called 'Civil Society' its taboo or too nationalistic to talk about it. Sunila Abesekara will not make public statements on this day about the rights of the victims, nor will Jehan Perera organize a candle light vigil.

some day Prabakaran will pay for it and so are the rest of the dark hearts that fed him and his clan of killers.

groundviews crap and Publis's postmortem to EP-PC elections

i got a load of crap via Groundviews today , the so called citizens journalism site managed by CPA under the funding from USAID titled "the eastern provincial council elections:a brief post-mortem".

why i call it crap is for few reasons but thats a different story.may be i don't want to waste my or your time on going on explaining why its really crap. few words from the actual article below might give any one a hint , why i call it crap....

"Compounded with the patent illegitimacy of the manner in which the election was conducted, of which the most significant factor of course was that the central government's principal proxy in the East was armed and was not diffident about displaying the fact, it is difficult to share the government's sanguinity about the re-establishment of a great New Jerusalem of democracy in the East."

so whats this about this 'great new Jerusalem of democracy" that Publis seems to be so entrenched about?
what about the conduct of the election? in fact can you even think about a election in the east under the shadow of the murderous LTTE? the bloodthirsty LTTE led by psychopath V.Prabakaran has no bounds when it comes to waging violence against any practice of democracy and sadly Publis' failed to realize this.

"central governments principal proxy in east was armed..." ..right on mate, what do you expect anyway...? they are a break away gang from the LTTE ( and no different than the LTTE , after all they ARE a pack of terrorists ,till few years back!) and yes, they still have the culture of the gun with them. whole exercise of having them in this election, of the government taking them under the wing is about trying to give them some space, make them change., its not like the CPA organizing forcing trips on Federalism to the LTTE or providing 'capacity building' and 'confidence building ' support to the LTTE as they did in the past ( may be even now!!!?) , that the same treatment was given to the breakaway faction..

CPA paid lip service , and back behind the screen, forced the LTTE to "solve" the issue of the breakaway faction, so much so that once Sunil Abeysekera (so called defender of Human (LTTE) Rights) requested Erik Soilhaim to 'tell the LTTE leadership to take out " Kauna and his senior cadres.

and about holding on to the guns, well ..can you survive without he guns , as long as LTTE is there, not only in the North and East , but effectively rest of the country? LTTE has gunned down, blown to bits so many of their opponents, so much so that they amount to more that 15-20,000. thats a lot of people, not to mention a whole generation of moderate Tamil politicians that died under the hand of the LTTE, the so called liberators of the Tamil race.

so Mr.Publis , what crap are you talking about this New Jerusalem, when you have the blood thirsty pack of Prabakaran running around with guns and bombs?

Publis' ends his crap load of crap by saying;

"What is nevertheless surprising, however, is that the Rajapakse regime's conception of political self-interest did not extend to seeing the value of a free and fair election conducted through independent institutions, from the windfall of legitimacy of which, it could have been the primary beneficiary."

are you nuts or blind, or may be you're under orders form the LTTE, but make no mistake Mr.Publis this election is not about being free and fair, its all about giving a former pack of blood thirsty LTTE'rs a chance to experience democracy , so that least try and change them from believers in violence to practitioners in democracy.

that docent happen overnight, and that will take time, and we the people who are against the LTTE and its murderous ways, need to be bit calm and focused.

and then on the other hand if this election was about the LTTE , and had it being contesting , the Flower Road 'Civil Society' and its champions like Publis would make a terrible effort to justify the LTTE holding on to its guns and liberally discharging them on the innocent.

its very good to have LTTE mouth pieces like the Groundviews cause it not only keep the rest of us informed about the many ways the LTTE wages terror , especially psychological terror but also provides justification for more tougher action against pseudo liberal democratists like Publis, who is on the payroll of LTTE.

Prabakaran using an Armoured Personal Carrier?

was reading the 'Situation Report ' by Iqba Athas on Sunday Times of 16th March 2008 , on the events relation to the death and funeral of TNA MP Mr.Sivanesan and to quote Iqbal Athas;

" On Saturday morning, the body of Mr Sivanesan was taken from Kilinochchi to his home town of Mallavi. Thereafter, it was taken from village to village including Puthukudiyiruppu and Mullaitivu. Around 5.30 p.m. it was brought to the Kalachara Mandapam (Cultural Hall) in Kilinochchi for the public to pay their respects. Around 8.30 p.m. it was removed from there.

At the same time, members of the family of late Mr. Sivanesan, his wife, four children and the 13 MPs were transported in a vehicle to a location outside Kilinochchi. The journey had lasted almost an hour. There, they were ushered inside a building. Around 10.30 p.m. those inside heard the loud roar of the engine of a vehicle. They were not sure whether it was a Jeep or a coach. Moments later, they saw armed men walking in. [emphasis mine]

First to walk in thereafter was the head of LTTE intelligence Pottu Amman (Shivshankar) followed by the leader of the Political Wing (and former guerrilla "Police Chief") Nadesan (Balasingham Mahendran). Thereafter, Tamilendhi, the head of Finance Wing and LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran followed. At least one TNA parliamentarian said his eyes "immediately focused on LTTE leader's leg to see whether he had been injured or was using an artificial leg. He walked normal."

point "those inside heard the loud roar of the engine of a vehicle. They were not sure whether it was a Jeep or a coach" captured my imagination and come to think of it , Jeeps and Coaches ,however badly maintained don't do a laud roar. even if that's the case one cant believe Prabakaran is using such a beat up vehicle, considering the accounts by people who were close to him and also by the nature of luxury and exotic merchandise used by Prabakaran which were later captured by Security Forces in the past.

so what is it then , that brought Prabakaran to this 'secret' venue?

i think with the increased LRRP and dissident LTTE attacks against the LTTE targets in Vanni has forced Prabakaran to abandon his entourage of Pajero/Prado jeeps and use a armoured vehicle. LTTE has over the years captured number of APCs (Armoured Personal Carrier/wheeled) and even a couple of IFVs ( Infantry Fighting Vehicle/Tracked) from the Security Forces and it may be the fact that they have mustard one of them as Prabakarans means of transport.

APCs/IFVs offer a relative amount of protection from landmine/claymore mine explosions and they are also quite reliable when it comes to negotiating off road/difficult terrain conditions and even has the capability of fording limited depths.plus they support comms/command control gear so its a very versatile option as a mobile command platform while offering armoured protection too.

Security Forces top brass do use APCs for VVIP transport and also as command vehicles most of the time and its quite possible that the LTTE is using the same tactics now , not only in order to transport Prabakaran but also as mobile command post , thus preventing a security risk of having him visiting one or few command centres .

over the time Sri Lanka Army and Navy has lost few APCs of different types including Buffels , Unicorns and Saracens , and even a couple of late modle BTRs. also some people say we have lost few IFVs including the Chinese made ones and a Russian BMP.event though the military claim most of these captured assets were destroyed by areal attacks we experianced the LTTE using captured T-55 from Elephant Pass , against a Navy Dovra in the 1990s.

although the possibility of use of the captured T-55 is very marginal considering its cumbersome maintenance and steady stream of spare parts , use of APCs or IFVs is quite high. hence i think the Military establishment should spend some time on this as if Prabakaran is really using such an armoured vehicle it will much more easy for a LRRP unit or a Jet to pick this target .

since there are more specialised and not so complicated ways of taking out a armored vehicle and also having being able to ID using thermal imaging with its distinctive thermal signature , Prabakaran traveling in a armoured vehicle will be a rich picking .

War to end by April (2008?) -Kohona

a friend of mine sent me an e-mail and i want to reproduce a portion of it below...

 

" I met Dr. Palitha Kohona (Foreign Secretary) a couple of days ago and
during the conversation he said that if all goes well, by April the
war should be over. I hope this is true. What do you think? Am I an
idiot or is this possible? You can respond with one word. Just say
'idiot' or 'possible'. Based on the feed back, I hope to write
something about the war."

 

i sure hope this is true and pray this happens. i just want to see the end of the LTTE and its genocidal war against people of Sri Lanka.