The defence team briefly argued that the operation was politically motivated, but that idea was given short shrift by the judge.
Mr Sirisena, briefly defence minister at the end of the civil war, said in his campaign that he would not go after Mr Rajapaksa for war crimes.
In his time Lord Oxburgh has been head of the earth sciences department at Cambridge, chief scientific adviser to Britain's defence ministry and, briefly, chairman of Shell.
Over the weekend, rebels led by former defence minister Mahamat Nouri briefly took control of the main eastern town of Abeche - both a military hub and the humanitarian base for Darfur refugee relief - while a separate rebel movement headed for the capital N'djamena, 550 miles away.
Amid the swirling detritus and buckling defences, it was briefly possible to confuse a pimp with a prophet and an apolitical sociopath for the second coming of Christ.
The weak Royal Yugoslav Air Force and inadequate anti-aircraft defences of Belgrade briefly attempted to meet the overwhelming Luftwaffe assault, but were eliminated as threats during the first wave of the attack.
We now turn to present briefly the defence burdens of the 13 Latin American countries both in terms of the averages recorded over the period in question, as well as in terms of how this variable has fluctuated in the sub-periods, as presented in Table 1.
It even briefly turned their defence coach, Dave Ellis, into a minor celebrity.
Evidently, Jürgen Klopp's team will need to tighten up their own defence, eliminate the mistakes that briefly threatened a late meltdown and cling to the hope their goalkeeper, Loris Karius, avoids one of his more accident-prone performances.
Cesare Previti, Mr Berlusconi's lawyer and briefly minister of defence in 1994, currently on trial for alleged bribery, will sit and wait for results in Calabria.In this section Crossroads in Karabakh?
