In this April. 19, 2007 file photo, a Tamil rebel fighter of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) patrols a road in the rebel-held territory of Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka. Government forces captured Kilinochchi, the Tamil Tigers' de facto capital, in northern Sri Lanka on Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, dealing a devastating blow to the rebels' quarter-century fight for an independent state, Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa said. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, file)From Yahoo News/AP:
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan air force jets and helicopters bombed a series of rebel targets in the north and northeast, the military said Saturday, as soldiers pressed deeper into Tamil Tiger territory a day after capturing the insurgents' de facto capital.
The fall of Kilinochchi on Friday dealt a devastating blow to the insurgents' 25-year campaign to create an independent state for ethnic minority Tamils. It has squeezed them into 620 square miles (1,605 square kilometers) they still hold in the northeast.
The rebel-affiliated TamilNet Web site said the Tamil Tigers had moved their headquarters before the town fell.
In a sign that the insurgents remained determined to fight, a small bomb planted under a car exploded on a busy street in Colombo on Saturday, wounding three people, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said.
He said the target of the bomb was unknown but it was likely intended to create panic.
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