Sri Lanka: LTTE's Prabhakaran praises suicide bombers

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, has paid tribute to 10 suicide bombers who killed at least 15 people in an attack on a northern military base.

Tamilnet.com a pro rebel website shows garlanded photographs of the "Black Tiger" suicide bombers at an undisclosed location in the northern Wanni region on Thursday.

The Herald Sun reports the LTTE also used light aircraft to drop bombs on the base allegedly operating five Czech-built Zlin-143 aircraft smuggled into the island in pieces and re-assembled.

Published by Mike Hitchen, Mike Hitchen Consulting