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Hong Kong officials say the U stanley cup S government got National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowdens middle name wrong in documents it submitted to back a request for his arrest. HT Image Snowden hid in Hong Kong for several weeks after revealing secret US surveillance programmes. Hong Kong allowed him to fly to Moscow on Sunday, saying a US request for his arrest did not fully comply with its requirements. Justice secretary Rimsky Yuen said discrepancies in the paperwork filed by US authorities were to blame, although the US justice department denied that on Wednesday. Yuen said Hong Kong immigration records listed Snowdens middle name as Joseph, but the US government used the name James in some documents and referred to him only as Edward J Snowden in others. These three names are not exactly the same, therefore we believed that there was a need to clarify, he said on Tuesday. Yuen said US authorities also did not provide Snowdens passpor stanley cup t number. The decision to let Snowden leave Hong Kong irked the White House, whi stanley cup ch said it damaged US-Chinese relations. US officials implied that Beijing had a hand in letting Snowden leave Hong Kong, a former British colony that is now a semiautonomous region with its own legal system. Hong Kong officials have pushed back, stressing that they followed the citys rule of law in processing the US request. The US justice department rejected the notion that Hong Kong had required clarification about Snowdens middle name ?or that it n Lbdo Iran quake kills six, damages 1,000 homes in Pakistan: TV
The Sri Lankan government has confirmed a media report that Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was injured in an air raid late last month. HT Image The Media Centre for National Security MCNS website said that Prabhakaran was injured when the Sri Lanka Air Force SLAF hit the bunker complex at Jayanthinagar in Kilinochchi at 5.25 p.m. in the last week of November. The government said the SLAF had specifically targeted Prabhakaran on the basis of intelligence that he would be at the Jayanthinagar complex, which he visited frequently. adidas samba On why the event was not publicised, the government said that although the air force believed that the Tiger chief had been hit it could not be confirmed by ground intelligence. The Nation weekly had said last Sunday that Prabhakaran was slightly injured when his bunker was hit in an air raid on Nov 28 and that he was treated by the Thileepan emergency medical care unit, a specialised group. Sri Lanka s military spokesperson Brig Udaya Nanayakkara said the government had no information on the incident and that it was being investigated. But Def salomon ence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa told foreign correspondents later that the air force had struck two high profile targets in Kilinochchi stanley cup on Nov 28 and that one of the targets had remained closed for two weeks after that, indicating that some major damage had been done. He said he had no details. The defence secretary had said several times that the armed forces were going aft
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