{"id":43273,"date":"2018-09-29T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T11:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=43273"},"modified":"2018-09-29T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T11:37:19","slug":"ltte-planned-to-attack-colombo-with-aircraft-flying-from-chennai-in-2009-sri-lanka-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ltte-planned-to-attack-colombo-with-aircraft-flying-from-chennai-in-2009-sri-lanka-president\/","title":{"rendered":"LTTE planned to attack Colombo with aircraft flying from Chennai in 2009: Sri Lanka President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that LTTE militant group had planned to attack Colombo in 2009 with an aircraft flying from Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena was the acting defence minister during the last two weeks of the civil war with the LTTE in May, 2009 when the rebels were eventually defeated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one knew it better than me,&#8221; said Sirisena during an address to the Sri Lankan community in New York at the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The former president was away, the former prime minister was away. There was no defence ministry secretary and army commander in the country at the time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sirisena said it was a well-guarded secret that all senior leaders were out of the country fearing an LTTE air raid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Tamil Tigers were going to operate an aircraft from Chennai or some other jungle area to bomb and destroy targets in Colombo,&#8221; the president said, adding &#8220;I was the acting defence minister. All the others had fled because they feared air attacks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even I did not stay in Colombo. I was at several locations outside Colombo in case the Tigers attacked the capital city,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that LTTE militant group had planned to attack Colombo in 2009 with an aircraft flying from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43275,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43273\/revisions\/43275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}