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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teron" data-source="post: 536527" data-attributes="member: 31121">Sri Lanka says rebels attack navy base, several deadCOLOMBO, May 24 (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger boats attacked and infiltrated a Sri Lankan naval base on an island off the far northern Jaffna peninsula before dawn on Thursday, and a number of sailors were killed, the military said.The separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said they killed 35 sailors, but the military dimissed the assertion as propaganda."The Tigers have attacked a small naval detachment on Delft island in Jaffna. Less than 10 sailors are dead," Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe. "We didn't even have 35 people there. That's totally false propaganda." <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL216014.htm" target="_blank">http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL216014.htm</a></blockquote>

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