Arjuna Ranatunga
Mar 6 2009, Sreelata Yellamrazu

by Trevor Chesterfield

It is far too simplistic to suggest that the planned terrorist ambush of the Sri Lanka team bus and match officials in their van, was an accident waiting to happen.
Warnings have been circulating Pakistan since the...

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