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Suicide bombing rocks Sri Lankan army camp
IOL, March 27. Colombo - Tamil Tiger rebels detonated a tractor and trailer packed with explosives in an army camp in eastern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, causing heavy casualties, a military official told reporters. More... Discuss this story
Published: Mon Mar 26 22:48:22 EDT 2007
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Sri Lanka Says Tamil Tiger Air Unit Is Threat to India, Region
bloomberg, March 27. March 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka's government said a bombing raid by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on an air force base near Colombo is evidence the rebels have an air unit that poses a threat to the country and neighboring India.

``The LTTE is the only terrorist group in the world to have air capability,'' Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, the minister for trade, commerce and highways, said at a news conference yesterday in Colombo, according to the Ministry of Defense Web site. India and other countries should be aware of the threat.

The LTTE said yesterday's bombing was carried out by two light-wing aircraft that are part of its new air wing, TamilNet reported. The group didn't say how many planes it has. More... Discuss this story
Published: Mon Mar 26 21:02:18 EDT 2007 Back to the top

Sri Lanka probes security lapse
SA, March 26. Colombo - Sri Lanka launched two investigations into security lapses that led to the first ever Tamil Tiger air raid against the island's main military base, where three airmen were killed, officials said on Monday.

The air force appointed a five-member team to probe lapses at the heavily guarded Katunayake airbase which came under a night air attack from Tamil Tiger rebels.

"The police, too, launched an investigation, because they were the first to pass on information about the sighting of two unidentified aircraft an hour before the attack," a top police source said. More...Discuss this story
Published: Mon Mar 26 11:36:42 EDT 2007 Back to the top

Lanka President holds emergency meet after Tiger air strike
 ZeeNews, march 26. Colombo, March 26: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse held an emergency meeting with leaders of political parties here on Monday to discuss the latest Tamil Tiger attack against the main airbase, the first aerial strike by the rebels... Back to the top
Sri Lankan air force bombs Tamil Tiger rebel areas
 Associated Press, Mon March 26, 2007 09:45 EDT . - - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Air force fighter planes bombed Tamil Tiger-held areas on Monday, the rebels said, hours after the insurgents launched their first airstrike... Back to the top
India concerned over Lankan airbase attack
 TOI, March 26. NEW DELHI: India views with serious concern the airstrike on Sri Lanka's only international airport by the Tamil Tigers, a giant leap for an insurgent group that has again proved its unlimited resilience even amid severe adversities... Back to the top
Cathay suspends flights to Sri Lanka after attack
 Reuters, March 26. HONG KONG (Reuters) - Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. has suspended flights to and from the Sri Lankan capital after a rebel airplane bombed an air force base next to the Colombo international airport early on Monday... Back to the top
Tamil rebels launch first-ever airstrike in Sri Lanka; 3 dead, 16 wounded
 Associated Press, Mon March 26, 2007 00:08 EDT . KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press Writer COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Tamil Tiger rebels launched their first airstrike in the nearly quarter-decade conflict with Sri Lanka's government, using at least one small plane to bomb an air base outside the capital Monday, killing three airmen, officials said... Back to the top
Sri Lanka rebels bomb military base in first air raid
 afp, March 26. COLOMBO (AFP) - Tamil Tiger rebels carried out their first air raid Monday, bombing Sri Lanka's main military base in a daring night-time mission that forced the closure of the island's only international airport... Back to the top
LTTE aircraft lobbed bombs at Katunayake air force base, but no major damage, two dead, 17 injured
 Munza Mushtaq in Colombo, March 26, 2007, 3.33 a.m.. Two Air Force personnel and another 17 were injured early morning today when a light aircraft suspected to be belonging to the Tamil Tiger rebels lobbed two bombs on the Air Force Base in Katunayake, a spokesman for the Media Centre for National Security told the Lanka Academic... Back to the top
Sri Lankan air force base attacked by Tamil Tiger rebels; 3 dead, 16 wounded
 Associated Press, Sun March 25, 2007 19:53 EDT . KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Using air power for the first time, Tamil Tiger rebels bombed an air force base on the outskirts of Sri Lanka - 's capital Monday, killing at least three air force officers and wounding 16 personnel, officials said... Back to the top
Sri Lanka says rebels bombed base from light plane
 Reuters, 25 Mar 2007 21:32:11 GMT. COLOMBO, March 26 (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger rebels bombed an air force base next to Sri Lanka's international airport north of Colombo before dawn on Monday from a light aircraft, the Air Force said, killing two airmen and wounding 17... Back to the top
Officials say Sri Lanka 's air force base likely under attack by Tamil Tiger rebels
 Associated Press, Sun March 25, 2007 16:30 EDT . COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Sri Lanka's air force base in the outskirts of the capital was likely under attack by Tamil Tiger rebels Monday, military officials said... Back to the top
Mixed reports over Katunayake explosions, all international flights cancelled, more than 10 injured
 Munza Mushtaq in Colombo, March 26, 2007, 2.43 a.m.. Two explosions have occurred at the Air Force Base in Katunayake which is adjacent to the country's only International Airport... Back to the top
Air Force base also under attack ?
 Munza Mushtaq in Colombo, March 26, 2007, 1.53 a.m.. An explosion is also reported to have occurred a little while ago at the Air Force base in Katunayake amidst reports that the country's International Airport in Katunayake was also under rebel attack... Back to the top
Sri Lanka says airport under suspected rebel attack
 Reuters, 25 March 2007 16:45 EDT. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked Sri Lanka's international airport north of the capital Colombo before dawn on Monday, the military said, and witnesses who live nearby told Reuters they could hear gunfire... Back to the top
Explosion at Sri Lanka airport air base - police
 Reauters, 25 Mar 2007 20:28:02 GMT. COLOMBO, March 26 (Reuters) - A loud explosion was heard at an Air Force base within Sri Lanka's international airport north of Colombo, police said on Monday, as truce monitors checked reports of a rebel air attack... Back to the top
Sri Lanka says airport under suspected rebel attack
 Reuters, March 26. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked Sri Lanka's international airport north of the capital Colombo before dawn on Monday, the military said, and witnesss who live nearby told Reuters they could hear gunfire... Back to the top
KIA Under Attack?
 TLA, March 25. Unconfirmed reports from Wires state that Katunayake Airport is under attack... Back to the top
Suspected Tamil rebels kill 3 Tamil civilians in northern Sri Lanka , says military
 Associated Press, Sun March 25, 2007 10:34 EDT . DILIP GANGULY - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels fatally shot three ethnic Tamil civilians who had refused the insurgents' extortion attempts in Sri northern Lanka - on Sunday, the military said... Back to the top
Cricket bridges ethnic divide in Lanka
 HT, march 25. With an armed conflict on for the last two decades, Sri Lankans may seem to be irreconcilably divided on ethnic lines... Back to the top
Moderate Tamils' constitutional proposal
 HT, march 25. The Eelam Peoples' Revolutionary Liberation Front – Padmanabha (EPRLF-P), a moderate Sri Lankan Tamil group despite its name, has proposed that Sri Lanka adopt a secular and federal constitution which will also ensure that no ethnic group or political party gets a brute two thirds majority in parliament... Back to the top
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