Telegraph,India,  Tue Mar 10 20:13:16 EDT 2009

    New Delhi, March 10: The teardrop named Sri Lanka is threatening to light a fire in India’s backyard that New Delhi is hoping to douse by killing it with kindness.

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The reconstruction package coincides with political pressures mounting from Tamil Nadu where Jayalalithaa went on a hunger strike demanding humanitarian intervention. The demand is catching on during election time and has echoes in Washington where foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon met US secretary of state Hillary Clinton last night.

1. Is this real love for LTTE or Sri Lankan Tamils caught up in fighting?  Or Both?

2. Then, is this playing politics at the expense of Sri Lanka?

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A British diplomat in New Delhi points out that western interest in Sri Lanka is currently driven by worries that the LTTE may attempt a terrorist strike in Europe or the US to draw attention to their plight in the face of the advance by Sri Lankan forces.

This is a classic case of giving into terrorism.  If this is the case, there will be scores of terror attacks in the west from Plantains, Kurds, Taliban’s, al-quida, Chechnya fighters, Tibetans, Kashmir militants,  IRA, etc (recent two attacks on Policemen)