Get Will Lyman, the old "Frontline" PBS guy, as the V.O.
Ten miles to the north of the old frontline, in patches of cleared forest, the former inhabitants of Paranatakkal are trying to rebuild their homes and lives.
Growing up in west Beirut, Halwani made the journey over what had been the city's Green Line, the old frontline that cuts through downtown, every day to his school in the east.
In the village of Makagonggaskade, 20 miles south of the old frontline that once divided government territory from that held by the Tigers, voters who had returned to their homes after being forced out by fighting said they would all be voting for the local candidate loyal to Rajapaksa.
Meanwhile, the old Frontline, saddled with the older ships, has had its debt ballast lifted.
Eventually the old Frontline will likely go to the scrap heap along with its tankers: Its very ugly, says Trøim, predicting that virtually every ship built between 1990 and 2005 will be scrapped in the next five years and shippers will balk at taking delivery on ones they ordered at $150 million when theyre now worth $80 million.
"They've taken three villages so far," said Peshmerga Major General Namiq Suwara, vice commander of the Kurdish base at Makhmour, speaking from a position on the old frontline.
The Frontline Club is dedicated to eight freelance cameramen and women killed in the course of their work, mostly in the 1990s, from my old agency, Frontline News TV.
He immediately overhauled its structure and removed many officers who he considered too old for frontline duty, replacing them with personnel who had experience with the 2NZEF in Greece, Crete or North Africa.
(Allied Assault: 2015 Games; $50; PC or Mac; 13 and older. Frontline: EALA; $50; PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox; 13 and older. Spearhead: EALA; $30; PC; 13 and older).
