There was speculation yesterday that Friday’s suicide
attacker planned to target SLAF Chief Air Marshal Roshan Gunatilleke as he
returned to his headquarters at Sir Chittampalam A Gardiner Mawatha.Well informed sources asserted that the female bomber may
have had anticipated Gunatilleke to return to his offices after attending
Friday’s ceremony at the Presidential Secretariat to celebrate the
liberation of Kilinochchi. 
The engraved LTTE emblem on the sturdy, three-storied palatial complex in Kilinochchi, which the military said was used by Velupillai Prabhakaran during the terror campaign. (Army Media picture)
Rukman hails victory
UNP Assistant Leader Rukman Senanayake yesterday expressed
his confidence of an outright army victory over the LTTE. Speaking to The Sunday Island from Kataragama, the Kegalle
district MP said that...
"Who’s fooling whom?’’ asks
Ravi Karunanayake
Although the Central Bank and the Governor were always
talking that Sri Lanka will not be effected by the Global Financial
Crisis, the recent events have revealed that their predictions were dead
wrong.
