35-year-old Piratheepan Nadarajah and 32-year-old Suresh Sriskandarajah, two operatives of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or the Tamil Tigers, are being arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn after being extradited from Canada.
President Obama cut short his vacation in Hawaii in order to get back to Washington in an effort to reach a deal that would avert the country's falling off of the "fiscal cliff" on January 1st.
