The LTTE Airforce...
Tamil Tiger aircraft bombed an oil refinery in Colombo. Why we should be worried...
1. A terrorist group has an air force.
2. They're obviously highly skilled, which implies good training (who could this be?)... They're taking off from God knows where, bombing targets in the capital city, dodging anti-aircraft fire and then landing unnoticed - and are able to do all that in what are clearly not advanced fighter aircraft.
3. What happens when al Qaeda, or the hundreds of other terror groups around the world, catch on to this...?
1. A terrorist group has an air force.
2. They're obviously highly skilled, which implies good training (who could this be?)... They're taking off from God knows where, bombing targets in the capital city, dodging anti-aircraft fire and then landing unnoticed - and are able to do all that in what are clearly not advanced fighter aircraft.
3. What happens when al Qaeda, or the hundreds of other terror groups around the world, catch on to this...?
posted by Pierre at 7:35 AM
4 Comments:
I doubt this could happen in a country with an actual airforce and air defence system - my guess is that sri lanka does not have one?
crazy shit though - would love to hear some more about this from nomads in the region...
9:29 AM
Here you have a chat conversation with my friend in the Sri Lankan MC -
me: listen...i read about some air raids in sri lanka by ltte
whats the story?
Alexandra: oh.. man, that's was terrible
and so scary
we were watching the match
1:43 PM i was sleeping when sri lanka was batting
it was in the centre of colombo
so i was sleeping in the other room
power went off
and then people heard 2 bomb explosions
then others woke me up
damn scary
no light
1:44 PM v are just sitting and seeing and hearing
the contrattacks
in the skies
right above us
damn
then elecricity came back
and we swtiched on tv
to see the news
1:45 PM but they started again
vey bad
sitting without any clue what to do
and how it will all finish
and no any idea how to change that
other people totally control you
no place to hide
that was bitter...
nobody can say how they smuggled the planes into the country!
1:47 PM piece by piece
11:57 AM
Alexandra: you what else
i think news are not full
i mean they dont say everything whta actually happened
if you read bbc
thy say it was attack at fuel storages or seomthing
me: aha...thats what i read as well
Alexandra: but the scale of contrattack didnt seem to be just fuel..
i mean government forces were really shooting
for a long time
12:00 PM
Hey,
I was there with Sasha (Alexandra) that night. I'm also working in Sri Lanka through AIESEC. I can easily relate to her feelings, though my biggest worry at that point was to see the game, though the end result of that wasn't that good.
The government forces had no idea what's happening and they were shooting pretty much randomly. I placed a nice photo on Flickr, showing the fireworks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59426258@N00/482436137/
Those orange thingies are anti-aircraft tracers. People at Philippe's place (where we were) thought they are fireworks, but I noticed them because I've been shooting them in the Finnish army (though I'm a pacifist... long story). Later they even shot Emirates' commercial airline. It was so random. And why we didn't have electricity was because government had shut down the power so that LTTE wouldn't know where Colombo is. What they didn't take into account is that people have generators. And of course all the government buildings had those. Way to go!
This was the first time I've started thinking of leaving the country due to the situation. Nothing like this has happened during my stay. But still I feel quite safe here. In daily life you just don't see the war. It happens out there, between the government and LTTE. Now we just happened to be "out there".
Anywho, it's still a nice country, if only it would stop raining.
Yours,
Tomi
PS. I wrote something to my blog, too: http://astikainen.myaiesec.net
8:57 AM
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