December 22, 2007: The army continues to have success destroying
parts of the LTTE front line. In particular, the LTTE territory along the
northwest coast of Sri Lanka has been the scene of successful attacks each
week, and sometimes daily. This pressure has apparently made it difficult for
the LTTE to get terrorist teams past the army lines and into government held
Sri Lanka (which is about 95 percent of the country.) Despite suffering defeats
for over a year, the LTTE still refuses to negotiate, and clings to the hope
that something will turn around their situation, and get them a partition of
the island.
An air force bomb apparently injured
LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, last month. Military electronic warfare
units have been able to track senior LTTE officials, and have killed or wounded
a few of them because of this. LTTE insiders report that Prabhakaran spends
most of his time in a bunker that is 40 feet underground.
