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LTTE air strikes cannot change military balance: Sri Lanka
Thursday, 28 August 2008 - 11:27 PM SL Time
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Sri Lanka Thursday brushed aside threats posed by the Tamil Tigers` air wing and said that aerial attacks by the guerrillas `cannot change the current military balance strategically`.
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa made the remarks at a media briefing, shortly after accompanying Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama to a meeting at the foreign ministry with Colombo-based diplomats to explain the security situation in the country.
At least 10 Sri Lankan sailors were wounded when a light wing aircraft of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) dropped at least two bombs on a key naval base in Sri Lanka`s eastern port city of Trincomalee Tuesday night.
`Strategically these air attacks cannot change the current military balance. Of course, it creates some sort of psychological effect, but nothing drastically,` Rajapaksa, a younger brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, told reporters.
`It (LTTE air power) is not a problem for us. We will take care of it,` he added.
The LTTE claimed that the target Tuesday was the naval headquarters in Trincomalee. The rebels also released photographs of their elusive leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, in a camouflage military fatigue, talking to the crew members of his air wing after the night air attack.
It was the fifth LTTE air attack. All five times the aircraft have managed to return safely to their bases in the rebel-held northern Wanni region.
Commenting on the military campaign in the north, where government troops are fighting the LTTE, Rajapaksa said the operations `are going on perfectly according to the plans and expectations`.
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alwaysalion
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 28 Aug 2008 17:06:01 GMT Report for Abuse
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The sooner the TAF mardura are detroyed the better for the people
as they don't seem to understand what the forces are thinking and the way they plan the attacks on terrorists. |
Su33
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 28 Aug 2008 19:25:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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| People also dont seem understand why the SAMs wont lock on. Anyone guessed why the helicopters in that rescue video were flying soo damn low? |
Ruhunu
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 28 Aug 2008 19:28:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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Why didn't the TAF stay around and bomb some oil-tanks while they had the chance?
I can not understand why they did not try to do much damage. |
Thambi
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 28 Aug 2008 19:36:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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LTTE air strikes cannot change military balance: Sri Lanka
lol - egg on the face eh ? |
Devindaf
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 28 Aug 2008 22:02:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Only the DONKEY MIND of the DONKEY EELAMIST cheers the relative Non Events of the Takaran Sightseeing tours over Ex-LTTE controlled land. |
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 28 Aug 2008 23:11:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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LTTE strikes of all form.... has changed Military..all other combat units...made them strong and stronger.
Made them the most proved military against terror. |
TruthHurts
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28 Aug 2008 23:58:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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made them the the most proved military against terro
One more person trying to convince himself and a few more fools.
Hello wake up !! Stop dreaming. |
Ruhunu
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29 Aug 2008 05:14:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Air Raid is a signal from LTTE saying that they are being hurt real bad. Next signal would be a few suicidal attacks on civilians in the south. LTTE always resort to this kind of desperate measures. |
Somapala
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29 Aug 2008 17:51:15 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thambi...
Why don't you invite your Brother Praba 'drop out' to join the rest of clang in Scarborough, Canada and quest for an independant land in Canada. Sri Lanka could revert back to peace... and enjoy the land with all communities.
Wake up and smell the coffee... By the way anyone heard from Praba.. Is he still alive.. Hope he is not hidding in Canada... |
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