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The Sri Lankan government strongly reject
speculations of troop withdrawal from Jaffna peninsula where
thousands of soldiers are defending the strategically important
town of Jaffna against LTTE offensives, military sources said.
Official sources also said that the main air base of
Palaly located at the northern tip of the peninsula was outside the
striking distance of rebel artillery guns. The LTTE have mounted intense attacks to retake
Jaffna, but there had been a lull in fighting in the past three days,
defence officials said. But the guerrillas claimed to have escalated attacks
against a key naval base at Kilali where they had been beaten back. According political sources the government was
receiving a wave of international and local support "for the
objective of defeating terrorism" after the country was placed on a
"war footing" on Wednesday night.
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