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| SLA Special Forces infiltrate LTTE lines, spike guns adjacent to civilians |
| 2009-04-22 |
| Following yesterday's daring operation where elite SLA units plunged into the NFZ, the government is now in charge of over 130,000 Tamil civilians held hostage by the LTTE. The details of yesterday's operation are coming to light. We will share some of these details with our readers. One magnificent attack was launched by a 12-man team of the Special Forces immediately after the Puthumathalang LTTE bund was breached. bund = earthen rampart Their objective was to destroy a mortar and artillery launching pad positioned adjacent to a densely populated civilian settlement. This gun position had been a headache to the Army for quite sometime as its WLR systems could not engage the target for concerns of civilian safety. The LTTE gun operators had detailed coordinates to the earth bund as was obvious in the first 1/2 hour of the operation. Military planners knew that the guns could destroy elite units attacking the earth bund in minutes. So the Special Forces were sent in. "Hokay, send in the Special Forces" The 12-man team from 1 SF infiltrated the NFZ immediately after the first attack on the bund. Carrying GPS equipment and trained to locate the position based on satellite and UAV images, the unit had no problem locating the guns. "Look, there! Guns!" The Tigers manning the position, totally unaware of their fate, had fired only 5 rounds when the SF stormed in. No one and no-thing was spared. The threat to the units attacking and securing the earth bund was completely neutralized. "I love it when a plan comes together." |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #3 OP - I suspect the army would begin overrunning itself if some units didn't redeploy. Does the SLA have a Marine force? Seems like a landing may be in the works if only to avoid the chokepoints on the peninsula they're besieging. Off to google and googlemaps. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2009-04-22 17:06 |
| #2 The Sri Lankan Army has reduced the area held by the LTTE to about half its former size. I'd say the LTTE is getting their a$$es kicked, hard. The Sri Lanka battle map appears to have been updated Monday, and shows the Army, with five divisions and four task forces, pushing the Tamils into a tighter and tighter cordon. The current troop strength for the Sri Lankan Army is one division and three task forces smaller than it was last week. A decrease in troop strength that significant suggests they really do have the Tamils on the ropes. Another three weeks and the "longest civil war in South Asian history" will be over, one way or another. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-04-22 15:30 |
| #1 I like it, take no prisoners |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-04-22 11:32 |