22 year old innocent protestor's situation is very critical or is he already dead ? - after being shot with live bullets by regime police of Sri Lankan Leader Mahinda !

According to Ragama Hospital, the situation of 22 year old, Roshen Shanaka is very critical but according other unconfirmed reports it is reported that he had died at that place itself but attempts have been made to give the impression he had not died by fixing the machines and equipments to his body. Even relatives of those workers who have been hospitalized are barred from seeing them

Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse had summoned the State intelligence service (SIS) new Director DIG Chandana Wickremeratne and bitterly castigated him over the violent scenes at Katunayake yesterday, during the protests staged by workers of the Katunayake trade zone. The defense Secretary who is smarting under the assaults launched on the higher rung police officers had blamed the intelligence service for non reporting about such a protest demonstration.

The defense Secretary had questioned whether the SIS officers have not crept into the trade zones and mingled with the workers. He had told them to do so at least now. He had instructed that the SIS officers infiltrate into the unions of the Railways, CTB, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation , SL Telecom , Ceylon electricity Board and nurses .

The pro regime media states that the police had attacked the workers without taking instructions from the Defense Secretary and action is therefore to be take against the officers for abusing the Leaders’s powers

8 more were shot with live bullets by regime police of Mahinda Rajapakse but regime is now had arrested 2 Police Officers in order to get away(/avoid) from any international pressure and human rights violation issues.

Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan - US President Obama Confirms

US president confirms that al-Qaeda leader has been killed in operation in Pakistan and that his body is in US custody.

Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, is dead.

US president Barack Obama said bin Laden, the most-wanted fugitive on the US list, has been killed in a US operation in Pakistan.

"Tonight, I can report to the people of the United States and the world, the United States had carried an operation that has killed Osama Bin Laden, a terrorist responsible for killing thousands of innocent people," Obama said in a statement.

A US source told the Reuters news agency that bin Laden had been killed in a house outside Islamabad in a US operation. His body is apparently in the possession of the US.

Qais Azimy, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, said that Afghan officials have confirmed that bin Laden had died and that his body was with the United States.

The officials said the death of the al-Qaeda leader was more of a "symbolic victory", as he was no longer directly connected to the group's field operations, Azimy reported.


It is a major accomplishment for Obama and his national security team. Obama's predecessor, George Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring to justice the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early 2009.

He had been the subject of a search since he eluded US soldiers and Afghan militia forces in a large-scale assault on the Tora Bora mountains in 2001. The trail quickly went cold after he disappeared and many intelligence officials believed he had been hiding in Pakistan.

While in hiding, bin Laden had taunted the West and advocated his views in videotapes spirited from his hideaway.

Besides September 11, Washington has also linked bin Laden to a string of attacks -- including the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 bombing of the warship USS Cole in Yemen.

Having the body may help convince any doubters that bin Laden is really dead.

Over 400 Dolphins landed dead on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico Since Feb 2011 - Scientists still do not know why..

Dead baby bottlenose dolphins are continuing to wash up in record numbers on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, and scientists do not know why.


(above video is  taken in FEB 2011 as this was the only video available so far)
Since February 2010 to April 2011, 406 dolphins were found either stranded or reported dead offshore.


The occurrence has prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to designate these deaths as an "unusual mortality event" or UME. The agency defines a UME as a stranding incident that is unexpected or involves a significant loss of any marine mammal population.


"This is quite a complex event and requires a lot of analysis," said Blair Mase, the agency's marine mammal investigations coordinator.



Mase said NOAA is working closely with a variety of agencies to try to figure out not only why the bottlenose dolphins are turning up in such large quantities but also why the mammals are so young.


"These were mostly very young dolphins, either pre-term, neonatal or very young and less than 115 centimeters," she said.


Marine mammals are particularly susceptible to harmful algal blooms, infectious diseases, temperature and environmental changes, and human impact.
"The Gulf of Mexico is no stranger to unusual mortality events," Mase said.
Sensitivity surrounding marine life in the area is particularly high after the BP oil disaster that sent millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico nearly a year ago.


The incident occurred on April 20, 2010, when a Deepwater Horizon rig leased to BP exploded, killing 11 workers and leading to the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
As recently as two weeks ago, scientists documented a dead dolphin with oil on its remains, Mase said.


Since the start of the oil spill, a total of 15 bottlenose dolphins have been found with either confirmed or suspected oil on their carcasses.
Even after the gushing well was capped, the agency said nine oiled dolphins have been found since November 2, 2010.


Of those nine, six were confirmed to contain oil from the incident; one was found with oil that did not match the Deepwater Horizon samples, and two have not yet been tested.


The dolphin deaths may be completely independent from the oil spill, Mase said.
"Even though they have oil on them, it may not be the cause of death," she said. "We want to look at the gamut of all the possibilities."
The agency said bottlenose dolphins are actually the most-frequently found stranding marine mammal.


Scientists say they are equally concerned about the number of sea turtle strandings.


Similar to the dolphin deaths, an abnormally high number of turtles have been found either floating close to shore or washed up on shores in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.


"The vast majority of these are dead, with states in moderate to severe decomposition," said Barbara Schroeder, NOAA Fisheries national sea turtle coordinator.


The majority of them are Kemp's ridley sea turtles, an endangered species since 1970. But some strandings included loggerheads, which are also endangered.
"Since January 1st, we've had just under 100 strandings," Schroeder said. "About 87 of those have been documented since the middle of March."


Only about a third of those found were in good enough shape to perform necropsies, she said. Seven turtles showed indications that they had been in accidents involving watercrafts, while another displayed injuries consistent with being caught on a hook.


Results from the rest appeared to indicate they had drowned near the bottom of the Gulf -- possibly either from forced submergence or an acute toxic event.
NOAA Fisheries Stranding Program Coordinator Dr. Teri Rowles said tissue samples from both turtles and dolphins are being carefully documented due to the civil and criminal litigation ongoing with BP.


"We are looking at what is the impact of the oil spill and the response activities to the oil spill event, and what impact they had on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem," she said. "We did not say that the dolphins have died because of the oil, just that they have come back with oil on them."


source ; CNN