



As
the country celebrated the capture of the last major LTTE bastion on the
western flank of the Vanni battlefield on Saturday, frontline troops
wounded in skirmishes with the LTTE had to be transferred to the National
Hospital and Kandy Teaching Hospital for want of medical specialists at
the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital.


Wimal wants snap polls to
oust LTTE agents in House
A fresh parliamentary election could result in the defeat
of LTTE agents in Parliament and help elect a group of patriots, National
Freedom Front Leader Wimal Weerawansa, MP, said yesterday.
Suicide air strike a
possibility as pressure mounts on Vanni front
With the area on the western flank under its control
rapidly shrinking amid heavy pressure on its positions along a 12 km
stretch on the neck of the Jaffna peninsula, among the retaliatory
measures contemplated by the LTTE could be a suicide mission by its
aircraft.



