SUICIDE BOAT WAS WAITING TO DESTROY KKS HARBOR

By Walter Jayawardhana

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam suicide boat that was kept waiting along Tamil Nadu coast was intended to blow up Northern Sri Lanka’s Kankesenturai (KKS) Harbor , the Hindu newspaper revealed.

Citing unnamed sources the newspaper said, “The target of the suspected suicide mission of the Sea Tiger wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was Kankesanthurai port in Jaffna peninsula.”
Since the KKS Habour is in a high security zone the sources told the newspaper that the two operatives of the suicide boat were in search of a safe route to reach their target of destruction and ventured into Indian waters.

According to the newspaper , the explosives of the boat came from a South East Asian country.
A flotilla of Tiger boats storming into the KKS harbor had been perceived on many occasions, the sources reportedly told the newspaper.

Instructions to move would have come over the satellite phone for the boat operators.
The sources told the newspaer that the instructions to move would have come from Mulathivu or Kilinochchi.

Due to timely intervention of the Tamil Nadu intelligence the high power explosives of the boat, now understood as a mixture of RDX and TNT could be detected. Their suspicions were aroused by the design of the boat. If they did not come it would have been anchored in the port it was found.

The decision to blow up came from the State intelligence and the Q branch of the police.
A senor official was quoted having said, "We did not want to meddle with the boat at the port... Exploding it in mid-sea was the only option left. The decision was taken on safety grounds,"