DM,  Mon Feb 26 23:45:29 EST 2007

    According to Government sources a western ambassador had been wounded in this incident.
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We still dont know how many commanders had died in Kodikamam, Jaffna from artillery fire and now this.


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The Academic wrote:

DM,  Mon Feb 26 23:45:29 EST 2007

    According to Government sources a western ambassador had been wounded in this incident.
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Damn Paramilitaries..

Sorry I wanted to be the first to say that before the BL's apportion blame to Karuna on this one..


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has to be the work of SL security forces or the Karuna group to tarnish the "good name" of the LTTE.

Isn't Batti supposed to be clear ? What is the range of a Mortar ? Who gave the VIPs' clearence to go, what's more the LTTE wouldn't have missed !

[quote="Tusker"]Isn't Batti supposed to be clear ? What is the range of a Mortar ? Who gave the VIPs' clearence to go, what's more the LTTE wouldn't have missed ![/quote]

Also, Isn't colombo supposed to be clear? Who's being killign the SL foreign minister, the heads of the army and many other politicians in these areas?

Isnt Kandy supposed be clear? Who killed the SSP of the Special Task Force in digana?

Isnt the Colombo/Galle road supposed to be clear? Who blew up the busses?

These are all the work of SL security forces right. I mean how on earth could the LTTE carry out attacks in cleared ares??

Tusker wrote:

Isn't Batti supposed to be clear ? What is the range of a Mortar ? Who gave the VIPs' clearence to go, what's more the LTTE wouldn't have missed !

You have a valid point there.


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Looking at your previous posts its no surprise that you are able to see the validity of Tusker's point.

122 mm are long range and may not be very accurate without the exact coordinates. The range could be as far as 15km for this type of artillery. In any case, this must be the handy work of SLA no! The innocent tamil terrorists won’t do this type of barbaric activities. What do people mean by cleared areas. It is only a general term. Green zone in Baghdad is also a cleared area but sporadic attacks take place from long distances and it does not reflect any lapses. But the important thing in this is how did the tamil terrorists got the information and get fairly accurate coordinates??? It is worth investigating and further one of the choppers was a private one not SLAF.

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122 mm are long range and may not be very accurate without the exact coordinates. The range could be as far as 15km for this type of artillery. In any case, this must be the handy work of SLA no! The innocent tamil terrorists won�t do this type of barbaric activities. What do people mean by cleared areas. It is only a general term. Green zone in Baghdad is also a cleared area but sporadic attacks take place from long distances and it does not reflect any lapses. But the important thing in this is how did the tamil terrorists got the information and get fairly accurate coordinates??? It is worth investigating and further one of the choppers was a private one not SLAF.

True. An isolated incident.
After all, how often Mr. Blake goes to Batti in an year!!

Darma wrote:

Tusker wrote:

Isn't Batti supposed to be clear ? What is the range of a Mortar ? Who gave the VIPs' clearence to go, what's more the LTTE wouldn't have missed !

You have a valid point there.

According to the President 95% of the East is cleared of the LTTE. According to the LTTE spokesman they stopped the artillery fire immediately after they knew there were Diplomats in them. That means East may not be under SLG control as it claimed earlier.

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According to the President 95% of the East is cleared of the LTTE.

The LTTE is just holed up in that 5% in the East, and shelling to hurt the US ambassador. That is unbelievable.
The government used to say they have killed 99% of the terrorists, but that is just propaganda.

News is just coming in, and LTTE agree that they did fire the shells:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/27/asia/AS-GEN-Sri-Lanka-Ambassadors-Injured-Rebels.php
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=21385

So there is no ambiguity about who did it.



Last edited by karu_007 on Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:36 am; edited 1 time in total

According to Rasiah (LTTE terrorist spokesman)  the attack was carried out because they were not informed that the diplomats were being transported.

Wonder why Rasiah didnt say that the attacks on buses (Kebethigollawa blast, galle road blast, etc) were carried out because the SL military has not informed the LTTE that civilians were being transported in them.

The Academic wrote:

DM,  Mon Feb 26 23:45:29 EST 2007

    According to Government sources a western ambassador had been wounded in this incident.
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Either the Government wanted to sacrifice the diplomats and the controversial minister with a hope to get a propaganda mileage, or they were overconfident that LTTE's shell pieces could not reach that area.

It is an absolutely irresponsible move by the government!

This is clear indication of how GOSL force's Complicity and false propaganda got backfired. They tried to show-off the BATTI to 3 diplomats and obviously to beg for money and now they are in a quandary.

Thank god that only minor injuries caused as it's a clear irresponsibility of GOSL and the forces.

Though this was not a publicised visit, I firmly beleve that Terrorist would have been informed well before for such attack including the UNCHCR flight of the other side.

HOPE THAT GOSL STUPID, ARROGONT OFFICIAL WILL REALIZE THEIR MISTAKES.