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Free Speech Radio News lineup - Wednesday, April 26, 2006

CEASEFIRE AT RISK IN SRI LANKA The Sri Lankan military today launched new strikes on areas controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels, a day after a suicide bomb attack shattered a fragile ceasefire. Ponniah Manikavasagam reports from Sri Lanka. Military spokesman, Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said the strikes came after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fired on naval patrol craft off the eastern port of Trincomalee for a second day. Tuesday's attack carried out by a female suicide bomber at the army headquarters in the capital, Colombo, killed 9 people and seriously wounded Sri Lankan Army …