LTTE in desperate fight for Adampan

For the first time in history the LTTE has deployed its Sea Tigers under Mannar Sea Tiger Commander Lakshman to defend a land-based location from the Army. The location is Adampan Town. A large contingent of Sea Tigers have been brought and deployed from Veduthalthivu Sea Tiger base.

581, 582 and 583 Avenues of Approaches under the 58 Division laying siege on Adampan today captured a small tank situated south of Adampan (too small to show in a map). 12 Gemunu Watch (12 GW), recently resurrected after losing almost two-thirds of its men in the Elephant Pass and Iyakachchi debacle (2002), managed to capture Munkalmurichan, a small village situated south of Adampan last week.

Roughly ten days ago the SLA captured the entry-exit point in Mannar at Uylankulam. Adampan is now surrounded by 3 Avenues of Approaches of the 58 Division (many civilian sources wrongfully call the divisions 57th, 58th and so on) (See sf-3 Map)

Meanwhile reports from intelligence sources have indicated that the LTTE Leader V. Pripaharan, who had made a statement to his followers that Eelam War IV would be fought exclusively with explosives, has plans of causing much more explosions in the south than before.

2 of the 3 one-tonne lorry-bombs sent to Colombo were captured last year, but another remain hidden somewhere. Claymore attacks in Colombo have subsided, but the LTTE team inside Yala is still active as evidenced by yesterday morning's attack on a SLA tractor at Buttala, injuring 2 soldiers and killing another.

The tigers fired 40mm grenades from a single-shot grenade launcher and injured 3 soldiers with a booby-trapped grenade left-behind near Kala Oya near Wilpattu last Tuesday. SLA believes an 8-man team of Tigers had been deployed in the Wilpattu wildlife sanctuary prior to the LTTE vacating Silavathurai last year.