Tigers supplies by air?

[TamilNet, Saturday, 08 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sri Lankan intelligence sources have told the Sunday Lankadeepa, one of the largest selling Sinhala papers in the island that they have reliable information that the Liberation Tigers are preparing to bring in their arms supplies by air to Mullaithivu.

According to the Sunday Lankadeepa which hit the news late in the afternoon today, the Sri Lankan intelligence has come by reliable information that the LTTE is planning to do so following the sinking of one of their supply ships recently.

The intelligence sources told the paper that the SLAF bombed and destroyed a runway that the LTTE had built in the Vanni.