Thursday, January 22, 2009

No fighter jets missing

Yesterday, pro LTTE media reported of a SLAF fighter jet which allegedly went missing in the ‘northern frontier’. According to Pro LTTE Tamilnet, a Mig fighter jet with three airmen inside was shot in the skies over Wanni. Part of the initial report is quoted below:

A Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) MIG fighter jet was shot in the skies over Vanni on Wednesday, according to initial reports from journalists outside Sri Lanka, who cited a highly placed source in Vanni Sri Lankan Forces Headquarters (Vanni SF-HQ). The Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) officials were not available to comment on the reports.
There were 3 airmen inside the aircraft, according to the reports from the Sri Lankan side.

DefenceNet can confirm that this story is completely false. There were no fighter jets missing and MIG27 ‘Flogger’ variant bombers the SLAF possesses are not designed to fly with three airmen inside. Tamilnet, after realizing their mistake have now updated the article:

The exact model type of the MIG fighter jet was not revealed and the information on the number of airmen reported missing as three was also confusing, the journalist said.

Apart from fabricated stories such as this one, pro LTTE media carry stories of civilians injured by SLA artillery fire/airstrikes on a daily basis. Aside from the exaggeration in these reports, they fail to mention how the LTTE has placed its heavy mortars in close proximity of civilian settlements and how civilians fleeing to government controlled territory are shot on sight. Civilians are not the target of Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) or the artillery regiment. Had it not been for the human shield deployed by the LTTE, forces would have advanced even closer to last remaining tiger strongholds by now.

Meanwhile the SLAF today dropped leaflets over Mullathivu, informing civilians of the newly declared safety zone. It is doubtful whether the LTTE will allow free movement of civilians to this area.

96 comments:

  1. Thanks DN.
    Regarding tha FAC incident, can you please find out more info. what i hear from SL Navy is our FAC is copletely down and about 18- or 20 men died. any comments?

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  2. Thanks DN,

    We knew it was a fake. But it was a SUPPER news for that DI ASS PORA monkeys. They must have celebrate that. U know they like PIGS. EAT all SHIT news from Tnut.

    Hey DAP PIGS,

    "VP has dropped SUPPER SHIT just few min.s before"

    enjoy guys enoy.....

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  3. Thanks DN.
    Could you please elaborate on the alien air-craft sighted at mullaithivu sea or palk-straight. Some channels say it was sighted coming in and returning back and military confirms that it didn't land. But wouldn’t it be possible for them to Drop some packages or something like that...

    ...
    This is what LBO reports…

    -
    "The aircraft was seen over northern waters and heading towards Mullaittivu district late Tuesday," said a military official who declined to be named.

    "Naval vessels in the area had opened fire, but the aircraft had disappeared."

    Sri Lanka's air force said it did not believe the plane was a light aircraft of the kind belonging to the LTTE and used in the past for attacks across the island.

    "It couldn't have been an LTTE aircraft because what was observed was at a high altitude," said air force spokesman Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara.
    -
    Lots of confusion. Please enlighten us.

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  4. DN,
    Why do you provide links to pro LTTP sites?
    Esp when one particular recently added site refer to defencenet as "SL propaganda"

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  5. Adding to confusion let me state some more rumor-evidence for fleeing:

    - It was likely that VP was in Mula. Maybe to use the boat to flee
    - 2 days ago he tried battering naval blockade we lost dvora but proved that blockade is stronger
    - Then there was lesser intensity in Mula, which may be because he moved to Challai
    - Challai is said to have a runway, only known runway under them.
    - And next night came the mystery plane, apparently it has landed [and I always suspected that it was a face saving lie to mention "high altitude", truth is, we do not detect anything in low altitude]

    I can't logically deny the four letters FLEE written in it.

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  6. "Prabhakaran is reputed to wear a ____________ capsule around his neck, to be swallowed."

    Fill in the blank and win air tickets to escape from the country.

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  7. according to initial reports from journalists outside Sri Lanka

    This journalist outside Sri Lanka sounds very much like Iqbal Attas...!

    Not the first time he fcuked up over an aircraft type...LMAO!

    If this is indeed Atta's work, then this leaves very little doubt that the scumbag was payrolled by LTTE all this time!

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  8. DN,
    thanks for the news. i was hoping to hear weve not lost ANY aircraft. you are only saying weve not lost a jet. please confirm. also on the mysterious plane, if it was high altitude how come it was not detected on our radar? and how come we didnt dispatch any interceptors after hearing about it? if it was coming on a covert operation its too lame to keep their lights on.

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  9. Nice Piece of work Defnet. We also like to have regular postings as in early days :)

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  10. Lalith's opinion poll.

    Who will catch the Fat Pig?

    1 59
    2 58
    3 57
    4 53
    5 55
    6 TF2
    7 TF3
    8 TF4
    9 Other Division
    10 Escape


    Please answer and win amazing prize.

    Winner will be published in two weeks!!!

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  11. Lalith,

    My vote goes to "Escape" unfortunately. I would be delighted to be proven wrong, however.

    Mahen's poll seems to be gathering momentumn with 1000's casting their vote in favour of the LTTE to surrender and get their brains checked out. No problem...Sri Lankan doctors are waiting for them....next please...!

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  12. The missing 3-person fighter jet story is not in ToiletNet anymore. Perhaps, LTTE itself felt extremely stupid about their own fabrication. Nevertheless, if I read it right, they claim that Iqbal Athas (MIA) passed the information to ToiletNet.

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  13. Rifard & Cable,

    SLAF responded to your request..
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    Air Force Drops Leaflets on Safe Zone

    2009-01-22 13:30:32
    MULLAITTIVU: SRI LANKA Air Force is now in the process of dropping leaflets over WANNI areas with a view to educating besieged civilians in LTTE detention on the newly demarcated “Safe Zone,” north of A-35 PUTUKUDIRIPPU-PARANTHAN main road.
    The Army Headquarters on Wednesday (21) afternoon ......

    ================

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  14. Defencenet: Thank you for the update. Please continue with daily updates. Many patriots depend on your unbiased reports. Thank you!

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  15. thanks DN.. seems like u are the only one left

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  16. In fact, the leaflets should provide with multiple options. Number one option should be to go to liberated areas which will speed up resettling in their own houses.

    Number 2 option should be to move into safe zone in unliberated area and should mention that it would further delay going back to their own homes.

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  17. i wonder why police dont arrest him and detain for false publications. in some countries journalists cant behave like this because of strict rules but in Sri Lanka journalist menace do what they want. in SL anyone with a pen and a piece of paper is a journalist, which means u dont have to go to university and study journalism. Athas is one of the fcuked up terrorist supporter.

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  18. Vigilante,

    Mate, you people deserve credit as few of the bloggers made the request to drop leaflets.

    I wish the government created a glossy brochure indicating of how the people are coming to the liberated areas, and how they are being treated too. This will motivate trapped civilians more.

    According to what I know, the entrapped civilian population is less than 150,000. LTTE has always maintained high number closer to 300,000 to falsely obtain rations. This has been happening from some time with the cooperation of AGAs, GAs and various government servants, who are actually the servants of LTTE.

    Not a single aid has been distributed in the LTTE controlled area in the past 10 years without LTTE control. All the NGOs, including the UN have worked 'for' LTTE. For every position in NGO offices in LTTE controlled areas, LTTE has appointed the employees. That means 'every person' whom have been recruited in the past 10 years who have been allocated to NGO offices in LTTE controlled area have been recruited 'through' LTTE. They all are LTTE appointed men and women. The foreigners who work in those offices in managerial posts either had no option and knowingly contributed or were not aware that whomever that have been recruited by their local offices were LTTE.

    It is said that almost all the Tsunami funds have gone into LTTE on arms procuring, and perhaps less than 20% has been spent on peoples' needs. There have been many bogus Tsunami housing schemes that limit itself to a 'Sign Board' and 1 or 2 model houses, which LTTE constructed for NGOs after taking Millions of $. These sign boards and model houses act as 'Photo Ops', so that NGOs can show them to their donors as mega projects to justify their existence.

    The nexus between the NGOs and LTTE have been working complementary to each other. NGO foreign employees get an opportunity to have a 'thrill time' just having daily talks with the alleged world's deadliest terrorists while enjoying all the luxuries of their job including the company of young females posted to the office from various Western countries, and LTTE getting the millions of $ and resources to carry out their terrorist work.

    All the de-mining activities set-up by various NGOs have been bogus activities in many occasions. Yes, they have de-minded areas that have been mined by the Army when the Army had camps. Other than that these de-mining NGOs have not done any de-mining work. Their sole existent has been dependent on helping LTTE. This eco system has worked very well until the Army moved in and asked them to leave. It is a good move to get rid of these pests, and we would certainly see very less impact of them leaving.

    People in Vanni are NOT HAPPY with the NGOs as they have not served the 'common interests' of the civilians.

    Some of my Tamil friends openly show their gratitude to the Army for the trouble they are taking to protect civilians. They now go into arguments with LTTE supporters openly. It has not been happening in the past. What they ask is every Sri Lankan to be tri-lingual. What they say is there is not 'ethnic problem'. But there is a 'language problem'. People can not communicate as they want to because of the language barriers and it leads to frustrations.

    Here my Tamil friends ask two things. Good non-corrupt governance from the GOSL side, and genuine effort to make the country Tri-lingual. I also certainly agree!

    The friend I talked about also was initially thinking that LTTE was doing a hell of a lot job in Vanni, but when he went there he saw it from his own eyes, and was totally furious about what LTTE has done to common people of Vanni. According to him, LTTE are the worst thieves, low-life scum that he has ever seen. He says that the wholesale crime LTTE commits against their own men (Tamil Civilians) are in un-imaginable scale. He was telling everyone was living in utter fear, not to utter a single word against LTTE. This person has good Western Education and experience in living overseas for over 20 years, and knows his stuff.

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  19. Its a joke to be publishing reports of "SLA attacking civilians" while keeping innocent men/women/children as human shields, and shooting the few who try to escape into government controlled areas.

    Like many here have mentioned, hope the leaflets contain the success stories/pictures of the civilians who have entered into govt areas. No matter how basic it is, the condition of the camps in the govt areas must be much better than what they are going through in the remaning tiny traingular patch of ealam which is still under LTTE.

    (Dont be confused I'm not the same Navindran who's pinning the ealam dream on the crash of Sri Lanka economy)

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  20. Read true assessments of Asian industry issues on Asian Defence Market News - http://asiadefencemarkets.blogspot.com/

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  21. Capturing the Big Beast

    If we stick to the well-accepted fact that the Lion is the king of the beasts, the Tiger is the First Minister and Leopard is Second Minsiter in the hireachy on a scale of ferocity and elegance.

    It is rare the scenario of a Tiger being cornered by a Lion, but feasible. Those who are lucky to watch the one-in-a-million scene are normally elevated into a suspension of hammock of nail-bites without being sure of the outcome.

    In the end, the obvious comes about with the lion being victorious.

    What we are going to witness in Wanni in the next few weeks of the amplified version of the above drama played by real lions and cornered ageing Tigers.

    Despite various reports of an escape of the Big Beast, patriots instinctively feel that he is stil there.

    Relatively smooth funtioning of the command structure is one bit of evidence that he is there. The farce-unto-death-and-then-rebirth taken up by the folk who heads the leapord brigade in Tamil Nadu also imply they have to look after the rascal.

    He has boasted about his skill to disguise himself when his life was in danger, in the past. This should be a line of thinking adopted by the army units who screen the civilians when they flee to liberated areas.

    The attack on the Navy is also an sign of desperation not that of bravery.

    If he ran away, it will be difficult for him to set an example to his colonels to die for something after getting into safety. It doesn't make sense. These beasts love life; they are used to it. They love women too, they are used to that too, thanks to the obedience hapless lower rank and file.

    They will try their best just to melt away with the crowds when they feel it is all over.

    The thorough screening is necessary to dismantle their last remaining myth - ability to go underground, when the chips are down.

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  22. DN,

    don't try to justify your civilians killing in Vanni... THE SLA have targeted the No war Zone (which they declared today and throw leaflets from Air)Area and killing 22 and injured more than 100 and also targetted the Hospital too.

    this is what every one calls as A ethnic cleansing and state terrorism ...

    Blood thirst terrorists ....

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  23. Shyam said...

    "don't try to justify your civilians killing in Vanni... THE SLA have targeted the No war Zone (which they declared today and throw leaflets from Air)Area and killing 22 and injured more than 100 and also targetted the Hospital too.

    this is what every one calls as A ethnic cleansing and state terrorism ...

    Blood thirst terrorists ...."

    Shyam

    Your source has a credibility issue. When it publishes information about a downed Sri Lankian jet with a crew of three - which is not possible - you have to suspect that many of the articles contain either exaggerations or outright lies. The pictures supplied in the article looks more like a base than a civilian settlement. One picture with a ditch and a male dead body appears to have barbed wire in the back ground.

    As a non-Sri Lankian I read many sources to keep myself informed on the events in the Wanni. Tamilnet has lost much of it's credibility in my eyes.

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  24. out_sider said...

    Muchan get some idea ..the civilians build bunkers for them ..even the people who lives in Janakapura and Manalaru have bankers in their houses

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  25. Shyam said...

    "Muchan get some idea ..the civilians build bunkers for them ..even the people who lives in Janakapura and Manalaru have bankers in their houses"

    Perhaps, but this does not change the fact that the area appears to non-civilian in nature.

    Also, it is becoming evident that Tamilnet fabricates articles for publication. Therefore, the source of your accusations is suspect.

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  26. SHYAM - Tamilnet or nut SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ITS more like Tamil(Deception)net,Tamil(propaganda)net

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  27. R*fard&C*ble,

    Thanks for the info mate..Keep them coming..Hope this will be over without much suffering to the people..

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  28. Defnet, can ya dig more abt the mystery aircraft over Mullaitivu mate.Did it come from Tnadu ? this doesnt look good mates how come our Radar missed this one ? I still think this wuz a foreign Intel ops that's on a test run ?

    BTW: 3 pilots in fighter jet ? Maybe they had a 7th grader load the page huh ha ! Where iz Illyan ?

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  29. Navindran,
    Lets concentrate on the humanitarian mission shall we..once it is over we can attend to the needs of the tamil people currently in Slanka.No point planning anyones son's or daughter's wedding in paradise right now..

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  30. R*fard&C*ble,

    Hope your long comment is another eye opener for the GOSL which has to act fast and swift.

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  31. The LTTE opened fire on a crowd of over 75,000 persons attempting to move into military controlled areas in defiance of the terrorists' orders today. At least 10 deaths happened as a result and a large number are reportedly injured.

    Pr-LTTE media is now on a effort to blame the deaths and injuries on military action by the state, trying to prevent the news from getting out into the world that the situation is spinning out of control and the LTTE apparatus is in tail spin.

    ENDGAME is here..

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  32. Defnet, do ya know where iz Iqbal Athas & his column on Suntimes ? Dying to know !

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  33. When will Sri Lanka finalise the deal to purchase the MiG-29s. Or have they done so already?
    http://asiadefencemarkets.blogspot.com/

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  34. vigilante, TS,

    we wrote to MoD in july last year (when ppl started going with the LTTE in large numbers) to drop leaflets to convince them to come back.

    however, now we need more aggressive methods to bring civilians to GOSL areas in LARGE NUMBERS (tens of thousands).

    this has to be done,

    1. while the war is on-going
    2. against STIFF resistance from tigers

    another problem. ppl have to lose their belongings when they come. for them that is all what they have and they are VERY reluctant to lose them.

    we somehow need to checkmate the LTTE to get them cross to our side.

    the smaller the LTTE area gets the higher the population density and higher the chance of casualty.

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  35. according very reliable sources all our crocodile head MiG27s modify to accommodate with secret gunner near to the tail end which is fitted with 30mm AA gun like old Lancaster fighter/bombers.this is due to highly threat posed by LTTE high speed slins.one of these crocodile head MiG27 was missing in action on last Wednesday.this is due to its propeller suddenly stoped by 9mm gunfire.3air men who were crewed this mission couldn't married up with rest of the crocodile head MiG 27s team.

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  36. Sardine bait balls are created when dolphins work together to shear off a section of the sardine shoal, corral it into a scrum of the size of tennis court, and force it onto the surface. When these sardine bait balls have been consumed by sea predators, nothing remains but a few scales and a lingering smell of sardine oil.

    When the LTTE sardine bait ball is consumed by SLDF predators nothing will remain but a few scattered Bata slippers and a lingering smell of sesame oil.

    Cheers!

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  37. hey just one thing about missing aiorcraft which at TAMIL NET...yes not only one, missed two last week still searching what happened ..
    poor..poor.. tamil net...

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  38. Everyone who crave for Universal Franchise, Equal Opportunities, and strong Sri Lankan identity to move this country forward should read this article.

    Sh*t From ToiletNet

    It explains the pathetic mentality of LTTE and the Tamil Die-Ass-Pora.

    This link should be a reference to future generations to come - to understand how primitive these a*seholes really are!

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  39. LankaBoy_007...said..

    according very reliable sources all our crocodile head MiG27s modify to accommodate with secret gunner near to the tail end which is fitted with 30mm AA gun like old Lancaster fighter/bombers.

    this is due to highly threat posed by LTTE high speed slins.

    Hey...boy

    Go and read a bed time story...!!!
    Defense matters are far too complicated for your little brain...!!!

    slings are the fastest jets in the whole world...!!!
    HA HA HA...HOOOOOO

    GET A LIFE U TERRORIST MAGGOT...!!!

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  40. LankaBoy_007, is that reliable source by anychance retarded ? crocodile head migs, and tail gunners in jets ? Someone's high on crack or extremely retarded.

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  41. "according very reliable sources all our crocodile head MiG27s modify to accommodate with secret gunner near to the tail end which is fitted with 30mm AA gun like old Lancaster fighter/bombers"


    This is BS,

    Nobody can modify high speed aircract other than it's design team. And it's not hollow like tin cans. Even if you place a gunner at rear end he have to shoot blindly.

    Remember you can do only barbeque at the tail end.

    Ur example even BS. Lancaster fighter/bombers cannot compare with Mig 27 haivng speed like mach 1.7-2.3.

    Who is this bugger giving you "very reliable" news. He must be a Tnut journalist. This type of BS news good for the Moda Choon die Ass Pora, not for chena boys. Ok.

    Come with some technically applicable story.

    Ass Hole

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  42. T-55 Battle tank found

    MULLAITTIVU: ANOTHER LTTE camp complex consisting of mine factories, command and security bunkers, several huts and a few stores was found by the Task Force-II troops in the UDAYARKATTUAKULAM jungle, west of PUTHUKUDUYIRIPPU, Thursday (22) morning. Confrontations prior to the capture killed many terrorists and injured a score of terrorists. Extended search operations on the captured LTTE camp found one damaged T-55 battle tank, two hundred (200) Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) made out of 81mm mortars, twenty land mines and stockpile of iron bars. A lathe machine and one lorry were also found abandoned on the camp site which had been provided with three-phase electricity using a powerful generator. Supply cables and the other wires were found destroyed closer to the large concrete pit where the power plant had been buried.

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  43. LTTE diehards at LNP claims,

    Dovra which was commanded by the officer name "Abeysinghe" was sunk on the 19 Jan.

    Further he claims , LTTE hand over remains of 18 SLA soldiers.

    Can DN comment on this?

    My search at navy website didn't refer to any officers loosing their lives on 19 Jan.


    I remeber SF @ LNP mentioned that kill ratio now stands at 1:1..

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  44. Do yo guys remember an incident. It happened about 8 months ago.

    Police apprehended few LTTE suspects who ran a Printing Press and a Publishing house in Kotahena (I believe). When the Police sealed the Printing Press, there was a Policeman to guard it.

    Few days later, the Policeman was found gruesomely murdered by cutting his throat. This was not a simple crime.. It challenged all the established norms of the LTTE operations in Colombo.

    I was in the opinion that the Police would get to the very bottom of it and apprehend the culprits behind it. To my utter disappointment, it has not happened yet.

    Inability to bring the culprits of that incident makes me disturbed..! It indicates some serious degradation of quality in our Police. Perhaps it is time to look into radical overhaul of the machine.

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  45. NoLTTE=Peace,

    I agree with you. It is primarily because of the inefficieny/brutality/politicization of the Police that we are fighting this war.

    I have said this before and will say it again, the Police force should be devolved to the provincial level and the STF integrated into the Army after the elimination of the LTTE pseudo state.

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  46. Sri Lanka needs more defence budget. Its reserves are OK, its economy is not so hard hit. http://asiandefenceindustry.blogspot.com/

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  47. The FAC was recovered by it's in pretty bad shape. Story of 20 SLN deaths is untrue.

    C.Coin,
    No fighter jet or any other aircraft lost during the said time period.

    Lankaboy,
    Don't spread misinformation.

    Sorry about the lack of regualr updates.

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  48. Phantom-x/shan/4C/DN

    Guys guys...

    honestly I'm just having fun reading this toiletnut article.just wanted to make some fun out of it.how on earth MiG could accommodate gunner with 30mm AA gun in tail end.. more of, propeller stoped by 9mm gun fire..crocodile head MiG(migs nver had croc head)...3 airmen inside the MiG..this is BS.thats why i made up this story. seriously I thought u would laugh at it..

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  49. From Strategypage...

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    Hell Is A Very Small Place
    January 23, 2009: As the LTTE is forced back into a corner (400 square kilometers) of northeast Sri Lanka (including about 40 kilometers of coastline). There, several thousand LTTE gunmen are accompanied by over 200,000 civilians (many involuntarily). In the last week or so, 300-400 of these civilians a week have fled to government controlled territory. The army has surrounded the coastal town of Mullaittivu, which is the center of LTTE operations. The army believes it can destroy this last LTTE enclave in about three months.


    The government accuses the LTTE of hiding its gunmen among civilians. There are nearly 500 civilians per square kilometer in the area around Mullaittivu. This makes it difficult for the army to fire back at the LTTE, without hitting nearby civilians. The army has established a "no fire" zone around the LTTE enclave, which LTTE civilians can safely flee to. Some 50-60 civilians a day are being killed or wounded. LTTE fighters don't use military camps anymore, but take shelter among groups of civilians.



    The army reports that it has suffered about 20,000 casualties in the last three years (including 3,700 dead). That means that anyone joining the Sri Lankan army in that period had about a seven percent chance of being killed or wounded, and that was much higher (closer to fifty percent) if you were an infantryman in a unit stationed in the north.



    Troops are on the alert for Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who has not yet shown up any place by Sri Lanka. Prabhakaran may be hiding among the Tamil civilians under LTTE control, or he may have escaped by boat to India (where many pro-LTTE Tamils in southern India would shelter him.



    The LTTE has prevented 78 UN air workers from leaving LTTE controlled territory. The government has long accused the LTTE of using foreign aid to build their armed forces, and employing foreign aid workers as human shields.



    January 21, 2009: An LTTE single engine aircraft, trying to leave Sri Lanka, was forced to turn back by anti-aircraft fire from navy gunboats. This confirms that the LTTE has at least one of these aircraft left. The LTTE used up to five of these Czech aircraft to make nine (largely ineffective) night bombing raids on government targets.



    January 19, 2009: A half dozen or more LTTE boats sought to leave the coastal town of Mullaittivu at night, but the navy intercepted them and sunk four. The other LTTE boats turned back to shore.



    January 18, 2009: Troops captured an LTTE shipbuilding yard, and found two speedboats, and seven smaller suicide bomb boats, under construction.



    January 17, 2009: Troops captured an LTTE command center near the village of Maruthampuvel.

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  50. lalith

    Who will catch fat pig?

    Army seva Vanitha unit..

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  51. The current level of military operations in SL is unprecendented and perhaps will be the only one of this scale to happen in contemporary history. Irrespective of whether we are lucky or not to witness this episode, it is breathtaking nevertheless.

    When you wade thru all that has happened and is happening now, one stark fact emerges as a learning point;

    Sri Lanka must ensure that its future leaders have balls. The only one to have balls before Mahinda, surprisingly was Chandrika.

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  52. cheak Wiki on SL Army...
    [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Army ]
    it carries data relating to 2000. If anyone with uptodate details could update the information, it would be Great.
    If that happends,
    Our Forces Should be Clearly shown in a higher rank in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_active_troops ] also...
    By the way I dont think recent additions as Civil Defence Force was included there...

    I went through this coz I was sure that our forces (SL ARMY) are now bigger than the UK Army, bt a frnd of mine was NOT believing it!!!!
    :O(

    Hope someone among you,could Squeeze out some time & make the changes......
    :o)

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  53. TROPICAL STORM SAID..

    Sri Lanka must ensure that its future leaders have balls. The only one to have balls before Mahinda, surprisingly was Chandrika.

    HMMMMM...CHANDRIKA IS THE ONE WHO TRIED TO GIVE P-TOMS TO THE LTTE.
    SHE IS A BITCH.
    LATE D.B WIJETUNGA WITHOUT ANY FEAR CALLED THEM (LTTE) TERRORISTS...!!! I THINK HE SAW THIS PROBLEM CLEARLY...MORE THAN ANY LEADER WE HAD IN THE PAST...!!!

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  54. No diubt about Chandrika was the worst President (drank Whisky most of the time and late for every meeting ) and MR is the best.

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  55. Guys,

    NAVY lost 19 Valient men on that day..

    http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/15284

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  56. Pundeyeelam,

    The news about SLN dovra was true.

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  57. It looks to me 57 division took the full brunt of the flooding...
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    MULLIATTIVU: THE 57 Division troops now closing on in the western perimeter of MULLIATTIVU amidst terrorist resistance expanded their Forward Defence Line (FDL) in VISUAMADU Thursday (22). Soldiers of the 574 Brigade commanded by Lieutenant Colonel SENAKA WIJESOORIYA crossing the NETHELI ARU, the waterway starting from the KALMADUKULAM tank, entered the western border of VISUAMADU. Advancing troops of the 574 Brigade received heavy gunfire from terrorists however it was countered and overpowered by the soldiers who entered area north of KALMADUKULAM tank.

    Fresh confrontations that erupted in THERAPPURAM area between the 58 Division troops and terrorists eliminated a few more LTTE fighting cadres the same day morning. Later, the troops found two terrorist dead bodies from the area.

    In the meantime, the 59 Division troops confronted pockets of LTTE terrorists in the areas south of MULLAITTIVU and PUTHUKUDIYIRIPPU Thursday (22) between 5.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. and captured one terrorist bunker and LTTE-made earth bund. During search operations that followed, troops recovered five dead bodies of LTTE terrorists and six T-56 weapons from those areas.

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  58. chandrika was a crazy bitch. she would down a whole bottle of whiskey on any flight into colombo and leave without paying.

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  59. May be LTTE lost something big yesterday.

    http://www.divaina.com/2009/01/24/news17.html

    Could this be the reason for the destruction of the Tank bund?

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  60. does any one know diffrence between
    TASKFORCE & DIVISIONS?

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  61. Bandara,

    The Task Forces have been tasked to bore the LTTE a*ses.

    The Divisions have been formed to 'rip (and divide) none-borable LTTE as*ses!

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  62. NOLTTE=Peace:
    thanks for the info. do you really know , or just wanted to use the same hatred words on people who ask their doubts

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  63. Bandara,

    Taskforces have been formed to achieve specific tasks, and has been formulated to suit the task. As far as I understand, it is fluid and specific in nature.

    When a taskforce is relieved of its specific tasks and becomes mature enough to handle generic offensive or defensive posture and of the right size, it gets graduated into a Permanent Division.

    That is how I understand. But it may not be exact. A mature Taskforce has the qualifications to be a Division.

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  64. Breaking News

    Contact with 10,000+ SLA lost after dam explosion.

    Over 1,000 SLA confirmed killed in the flood surge.

    Let the Chena boy massacre begin.

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  65. End of the road for terror in paradise -
    Ron Harvey in strategypage.com

    Sri Lanka used to be a paradise. For a while things turned sour when she experimented with socialism and then came Junius Jaywardene, whose westernization ambitions led to the creation of the terrorist monster by India, which Sri Lanka still grapples with. Both these nations have come full circle in learning the unavoidable lesson; that they are tied at the navel, one cannot exist without the other being friendly. In that learning process, Sri Lanka's tamils footed the bill, and lost their second largest population standing, became brutalized and decimated qualitatively as well and quantitavely. Given what they've been thru' in the past two decades or so, Sri Lankan tamils perhaps would have a hard time believing any of their own leaders for a while at least.

    On the war front, the Sri Lankan military is proving to be one of the best fighting forces the world has seen in recent times. It's transition from a demoralized broken institution into a sleek, well oiled machine must be credited to the present Commander Fonseka. He is ably supported by the no-nonsense Sri Lankan President and his very defence savvy ex-military brother who acts as Defence secretary. Rank and file of the various arms of the Sri Lankan military are also proving to be capable of no less than breathtaking feats of sheer daring almost on a daily basis. The LTTE killing machine has become a sitting duck in the sights of these fighting men and women and do not stand the survival chances of a snow flake in hell now.

    And so the LTTE leadership is said to be ready to run. That is, if their cheif, who is wanted in both Sri Lanka and India manages to get through the ever tightening cordon thrown in by at least six divisions of Sri Lankan forces. A worrisome development here is the LTTE is still holding at least over 100,000 civillians and may resort to sacrificing them in a futile effort to gain international public sympathy. Foreign intelligence agencies have warned that the LTTE is preparing to carry out a massive scale slaughter of civillians cornered in the Wanni and blame it on government forces.

    There are also reports leaking out through civillians slipping through the LTTE's grasp to reach government controlled areas of mass scale brutality meted out by the LTTE to those who attempt to leave, including beatings and even summary executions. A few days ago the LTTE opened fire on a large crowd of civillians amounting to thousands, who attempted to flee. The numbers killed and injured are unknown, but some who escaped claim at least a dozen deaths and hundreds of injured.

    The Sri Lankan terrorism problem will soon end in its military dimension. Even though the LTTE may continue to exist as a guerilla force, it would be one that is destined to fast fading as a fighting force. Military intelligence in Sri Lanka is too good for a rag tag terror group to survive for too long.

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  66. Bandara

    A task force can typically be a force made up of a collection of regiments, put together for a specific military objective. It is typically of a short term duration and once the task is accomplished, its various components can return to their original positions. Ex: A TF can combine air, ground and naval force units for a job.

    A division has more specilized characteristics, its own identity, a permanent leadership and a nature such as offensive or defensive. It will have armaments etc that support its task specilization and parameters.

    If you want to know which one is better, take off your pants and bend over and they'll show you..

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  67. heavy fighting going on

    anybody have new info ?

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  68. information coming out slowly

    :-(

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  69. Yes, Sajith. The army is about to call off the onslaught and come home leaving behind multibarrel launchers for Wanni kids to play around.

    Feel elated now? Congratulations!!

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  70. From the UAV footage one thing is apparent, SLA units would have got advanced warning about the floods.

    Therefore one would belive the SLA had time to avacuate the soldiers prior to the floods.

    The other thing that is important is to secure resoviours before moving further.

    With LTTE, SLA should have anticipated this, I hope...

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  71. Breaking news..

    Little while ago troops in Elephant Pass area had visible confirmation that commandos of LTTE Parachute regiment jump off from the low flying high speed zlins.most of them hit the ground even before they could open the parachutes.some of them even didn't have parachutes.but some how this elite LTTP cadres manage to survive with minimum injuries, of course before SLA soldiers totally mutilated these bastards with some "Manna Pihiya(s)".But some how their high-speed zlins manage to disappear in to Toilet Nadu.

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  72. This could be over long before anyone expects. It will finally become a hostage case, reach critical mass and implode.

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  73. # Police make headway in probe
    Click here

    # Karuna to be Nation Building Minister
    Click here

    # Suspect from scene of SLAF blast released
    Click here

    # UN-LTTE standoff in Wanni
    Click here

    # Projects worth Rs. 2 billion to develop N/E
    Click here

    # Akashi pays visit to Manik Farm
    Click here

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  74. # Family overjoyed at soldier’s return
    Click here

    # Advancing troops discover LTTE mine-manufacturing factories
    Click here

    # Tamil Nadu boils, but Delhi remains warm
    Click here

    # The Danish Prime Minister commends Lankan Security Forces for their success in combatting Terrorirsm in Sri Lanka
    Click here

    # Britain: LTTE must be dealt as terrorists
    Click here

    # 'Seeing is believing' – Sangaree: Visit Sri Lanka to save the Tamils from the clutches of Tamil Tigers
    Click here

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  75. thanks for infos TS & No ltte=peace..


    any news on Kalmadu Tank explode?
    any news DN?

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  76. Hey.. is this Bandara same as the other Bandara who was the LTTE terrorist?

    If not our apologies for taking Micky out of you!

    :-)

    Bandara, we have this bad habit of tickling LTTE Monkeys!

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  77. no peace= LTTE:
    i just changed my mind little bit..
    instead argue or growing hatred against both sides,
    im just going to watch what is going to happen in the future..

    because to be honest i dont see any reliable resources.. yet from both sides recently..

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  78. Troops enter Mullaittivu; LTTE main garrison town falls [defence.lk]

    Sri Lanka Army 59 Division soldiers lead by Brigadier Nandana Udawatta have entered the LTTE's main garrison town Mullaittivu this evening (Jan 25).

    According to the battlefield sources, troops of 593 Brigade lead by Lieutenant Colonel Jayantha Gunarathne have made a surprise attack across the Nanthikandal lagoon and entered the Mullaittivu town area this morning. Infantrymen of 7 Gemunu Watch (7 GW) lead by Lieutenant Colonel Chaminda Lamahewa have been in first to enter the town amid heavy terror resistance, the sources said.

    The Mullaittivu town is situated in a narrow stretch of a land between Nanthikandal lagoon and the Indian Ocean. The town fell to the terrorists in 1996 and since then LTTE established its main military base there.

    Once mop up operation completed the area will be declared liberated, the sources said

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  79. Guys I have news.

    =================
    Source: LNP.

    The rumor started on Siber news, someone or some very creative LTTEr decided to count the people in the area flanking the tank bund, and he thought there were 1000 odd people.
    the water level is 2 feet, it seems it is directed towards north-east direction towards the lagoon.

    LTTE is spreading rumors, so they can milk another few thousand dollars from the diaspora.

    we have reached mulativu town now (59)
    only about 20,000 in direct operations, so that leaves a big big reserve force if there is a need.

    but the loss of life is actually like 200 Tamil IDPs killed by LTTE. the inconvenience to SLA is quite minimal considering the support forces we have ready.

    remember our SLA had to cross 8 feet deep water, reaching 10-20 miles when they were attacking paranthan? Special forces training include swimming with a 50 kilo back water soaked.

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  80. Bandara,

    I am glad about your transformation and honesty.

    End of this military campaign will have a new beginning for Sri Lanka. It would be a beginning that brings equal opportunities that are enjoyed by the Tamils who live in the South of Sri Lanka to the North too. It would be a beginning of working as one nation and achieving greater heights than killing each other following a failed separatist doctrine.

    Be part of that great history man, and contribute to a modern thriving nation that thinks alike.

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  81. TAMILNUT IS RUNNING OUT OF STORIES TO WRITE.

    TOP STORY TODAY

    Jaffna campus employee shot, injured
    [TamilNet, Sunday, 25 January 2009, 14:09 GMT]
    A 41-year old warden of a men's hostel belonging to the Jaffna Campus was shot and injured by unidentified gunmen riding in a motorbike along Potpathy Road, Kokuvil in front of the Pillaiyaar Temple when he was returning from his mother's home in Kondavil after lunch at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, sources in Jaffna said. The injured warden was admitted to the Jaffna Teaching Hospital, but his injuries

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  82. DN,

    Regarding the FAC incident,stop the Bullshit cut and paste from defence.lk.lakbimanews's Ranga reports that the FAC was indeed sunk by a suicide craft,with 19 sailors/officers gone MIA,,

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  83. i think from now on we will here very "hot" NEWS , from both sides, or could come from one side..

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  84. why gov buys 160 chinese tanks anyway, if its seems sla wins?
    anyone knows?

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  85. The fat fag must be shtting his pants.

    ***ENDGAME means game over***
    ***Extinct is forever ***

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  86. Gov could focus on developing the country in the future i guess,

    instead spending the money to buy new weapons

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  87. !! Please stop the War !!

    !!! Please Please Please Stop killing civilians !!!!


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-B8_mUd

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  88. !! Please stop the War !!

    !!! Please Please Please Stop killing civilians !!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgpLNh93ueI

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  89. ! PLEASE STOP THE WAR !
    !! PLEASE PLEASE STOP KILLING CIVILIANS !!


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-B8_mUdKg

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mURM1dvwmMs


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgpLNh93ueI

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  90. Civilian,

    Man tell that to Velu..

    Ask Velu to release Women and Children.

    Game over.

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  91. Until Velu and his top 20 is captured or dead, the war is not over!

    We will not declare the war is over yet!

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  92. Immediately after the destruction of the tank bund, 53 division was deployed.

    http://www.nation.lk/2009/01/25/news4.htm

    Six SLA teams were caught in the floods.

    http://www.divaina.com/2009/01/26/news02.html

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  93. http://www.nation.lk/2009/01/25/militarym.htm

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  94. Civilian
    Yes the war will be stopped when the country get rid of the tiger terrorists from the island.

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