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Sri Lanka Air Force replies to Tamil Tigers attack

Colombo , Sri Lanka - Hitting only an airstrip though

The clash occurred yesterday between the Tamil Tigers guerrilla and the governmental army of Sri Lanka seems to have ended, military speaking, with a clear victory of the first. The rebels of LTTE ("Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam"), whi at the dawn of Monday have attacked an air base of the Singhalese Army (see AVIONEWS), presented today a bullettin of the machinery that they allegedly have destroyed...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1081074
Rome, Italy, 10/23/2007 10:21
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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