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Associated Press,  Fri Feb 16 09:26:54 EST 2007

    BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI  -   Associated Press Writer  -              COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -  (AP)  Sri Lanka - 's navy said it destroyed two Tamil Tiger rebel boats Friday as the craft were hauling hundreds of thousands of steel balls often used in bombs. Four rebel fighters were believed killed.
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Navy spokesman commander D.K.P. Dassanayake said divers retrieved 28 bags filled with steel balls from the sunken boats. Such balls are used in roadside bombs a favored weapon of the Tigers, who are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka - 's minority ethnic Tamils.


May be LTTE guys were taking these steel ball for their child solders to play 'atabola' (Marbels).
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