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S.Lanka Air Force bombs Tigers for second day
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s air force bombed Tamil Tiger territory in the island’s northeast for a second day on Thursday, targeting a suspected rebel air strip as ground troops readied for an incursion to end a water supply blockade. There were no immediate details of any casualties.
Send your air force to school in Nevada for a while and I bet their accuracy improves ...
The government accuses the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of blocking water supplies to farmland in the eastern district of Trincomalee, where the government and rebels both control territory.

The Tigers say local Tamil civilians stopped water flowing from a reservoir, demanding that the government build water towers in Tamil areas.

Officials said the Air Force bombed the site of a suspected rebel air strip in the northern district of Mullaithivu, where the Tigers’ naval wing is based, a day after they bombed Tiger positions near the reservoir in the east. “The military discovered the construction of a new airstrip in Mullaithivu ... which affects the sovereignty of the country and territorial integrity and also causes a threat to the region,” defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told Reuters.

“To achieve the target of distributing water, the government and the defence authorities will do everything possible,” he added. “Ground troops are moving with engineers to the area. If they call for air suppport, then air support will arrive.”

Both the government and the Tigers claim control over the site of the reservoir, which lies in an area where the border between the foes is ill-defined. However the ground reality is that the Tigers control the area, military sources said.
Posted by: Steve White 2006-07-28
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