World Of Sports

Week 28

Blackburn v Everton

Fulham v Hull
Hull 0-1 Manucho 

Liverpool v Sunderland
SKY Liverpool 1-0 N'Gog 
SKY Liverpool 2-0 Benayoun 
Pre Match Comp
1st Half - Part 1
1st Half - Part 2
1st Half - Part 3
1st Half - Part 4
1st Half - Part 5
2nd Half - Part 1
2nd Half - Part 2
2nd Half - Part 3
2nd Half - Part 4
2nd Half - Part 5

Man City v Aston Villa
Man City 1-0 Elano 
Man City 2-0 Wright-Phillips 
MOTD Highlights

Newcastle v Man Utd
Newcastle 1-0 Lovenkrands (View)
Man Utd 1-1 Rooney (View)
Man Utd 1-2 Berbatov (View)
MOTD Highlights - Part 1 / Part 2

Portsmouth v Chelsea
SKY Chelsea 0-1 Drogba (View)
MOTD Highlights

Stoke v Bolton
Stoke 1-0 Beattie (View)
Stoke 2-0 Fuller (View)
MOTD Highlights

Tottenham v Middlesbrough
Tottenham 1-0 Keane (View)
Tottenham 2-0 Pavlyuchenko (View)
Tottenham 3-0 Lennon (View)
Tottenham 4-0 Lennon (View)
MOTD Highlights

West Brom v Arsenal
SKY Arsenal 0-1 Bendtner (View)
SKY West Brom 1-1 Brunt (View)
SKY Arsenal 1-2 Toure (View)
SKY Arsenal 1-3 Bendtner (View)
MOTD Highlights

Wigan v West Ham
West Ham 0-1 Cole (View) 

Week 27

Arsenal v Fulham

Aston Villa v Stoke
Aston Villa 1-0 Petrov 
Aston Villa 2-0 Carew 
Stoke 2-1 Shawcross
Stoke 2-2 Whelan 

Bolton v Newcastle
Bolton 1-0 Gardner 

Chelsea v Wigan
Chelsea 1-0 Terry 
Wigan 1-1 Kapo 
Chelsea 2-1 Lampard 

Everton v West Brom
Everton 1-0 Cahill / SKY Everton 1-0 Cahill 
Everton 2-0 Saha / SKY Everton 2-0 Saha 

Hull v Blackburn
Blackburn 0-1 Warnock 
Blackburn 0-2 Andrews 
Hull 1-2 Ashbee 

Middlesbrough v Liverpool
Middlesbrough 1-0 Alonso OG 
Middlesbrough 2-0 Tuncay 

Sunderland v Tottenham
Sunderland 1-0 Richardson 
Tottenham 1-1 Keane 

West Ham v Man City
West Ham 1-0 Collison 

The TV grabs of the assailants who attacked the bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers seemed familiar—AK-47 wielding attackers carrying haversacks—and almost a flashback to the Mumbai terror attacks of 26/11. Was it possible that these could have been an attack by militant elements in Pakistan close to the Tigers who are now virtually corralled in a 58 square km enclave in north-eastern Sri Lanka?

“While it is too early to assess as to who might have been responsible for the attack and why, one has to recall past instances of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) contacts with the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM),” says B. Raman, former head of the R&AW’s counter-terrorism wing.

The HUM was known before 1997 as the Harkat-ul-Ansar and a member of  the International Islamic Front (IIF) of Al Qaeda. The LTTE is believed to have provided its freighters of the ‘Sea Pigeons’ in the 1990s to facilitate heroin smuggling from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.

In fact Raman’s 2007 book ‘The Kaoboys of R&AW’ was the first to minutely detail the linkages between the LTTE and the HUM. The LTTE freighter ‘MV Ahat’ which was loaded with weapons by the ISI and HUM was tracked by the R&AW through electronic intercepts which were passed on to the Coast Guard. The vessel was intercepted and boarded by the Navy and Coast Guard in 1993 and Kittu, the LTTE’s second-in-command, chose to go down with the ship rather than surrender.

“Against this background, a possible line of enquiry should be whether the HUM or any of its allies in the IIF is repaying a debt to the LTTE for its past assistance by attacking the Sri Lankan cricket team,” Raman says.

The entire top leadership of the LTTE including Prabhakaran, intelligence chief Pottu Amman and Sea Tigers chief Soosai are confined with the remaining LTTE cadres to a 58 square km enclave north of their last bastion, the coastal town of Puthukuddiyirippu. This enclave is fast shrinking and recent intercepts by the Lankan authorities point to a desperate LTTE leadership with the Lankan authorities rejecting calls for a ceasefire.

Srilankan Cricketers were attacked today by 12 Terrorist when they were on their way to Gadaffi Stadium to play Day 3 of the Second Test Match between Pakistan and Srilanka.