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2007-03-26 Sri Lanka

Tamil Tigers attack Sri Lankan air force base

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Posted by John Frum 2007-03-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Looks like the Air Force is going to have to go back and re-bomb one of the destroyed Tamil bases in retaliation.

Posted by gorb 2007-03-26 05:24|| 2007-03-26 05:24|| Front Page Top

#2 The Sri Lankans might want to invest in early-warning radar.

I kinda like the Tamil Tigers, I mean, for a bloody terrorist organization. They have a navy and now an air force.

Posted by gromky 2007-03-26 06:27|| 2007-03-26 06:27|| Front Page Top

#3 sounds like "Five O'Clock Charlie" from MASH

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-26 08:09|| 2007-03-26 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like they have a couple of light planes - similar to Cessna 150s - that can fly in very low (under most radar), drop a 20-lb mortar bomb, and make their way back home at the whopping airspeed of 80 knots. Hard to detect, hard to stop.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-26 11:01|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-26 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 At least one of the Tiger aircraft is believed to be a Czech-made Z-143 two-seater training light aircraft. Pro-rebel Web site www.tamilnet.com posted photographs of shadowy rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who has lived in hiding for much of the two-decade conflict, standing with Tiger airmen in characteristic Tiger stripes.

They also show two Tiger rebels sitting in the cockpit of a single-propeller two-seater aircraft painted in army camouflage colours, as well as the underside of an aircraft with four bombs attached to it. "They have been caught with their pants down. It's like something out of Biggles," said one foreign security expert on condition of anonymity, referring to novels about a fictional British World War One fighter pilot.

Posted by Steve 2007-03-26 11:29|| 2007-03-26 11:29|| Front Page Top

#6 As Jane Robert's Seth might have said, "They created their own Reality".

Takes two hands to clap. Little to choose between them but one up for the one with the iconic Mario look-alike this time. (Nice name by a Rantburger, hahaha.)

Posted by Duh! 2007-03-26 15:37|| 2007-03-26 15:37|| Front Page Top

#7 from the way it sounds the navy is being tyaken put

Posted by sinse 2007-03-26 17:56|| 2007-03-26 17:56|| Front Page Top

#8 If they wanted to improve their image (aside from not murdering civilians and such), they could call themselves the Flying Tigers and paint shark teeth on the side of their planes.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-03-26 19:13|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-03-26 19:13|| Front Page Top

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