LTTE star strategist wounded?
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LTTE's leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's son Charles Anthony Seelan lies wounded in hospital, the Sri Lankan army was quoted as saying this afternoon.
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Charles, the insurgents' star strategist, is being treated in the No Fire Zone, the army said in a statement. The zone is blocked, and entry is barred to the media.
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The army says it has restricted the LTTE to a radius of 21 km.
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Charles is said to have studied in London. He took over the air wing of the LTTE, called Vaan Puligal (Air Tigers), on his return.
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The unit carried out a suicide attack on Colombo with two war planes last month.
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The Lankan army also claimed it had found a half-built submarine.
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Charles led the cadres and is said to be in the war zone since March 8.
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The government-supported tabloid Bottom Line said the army, when interrogating an LTTE activist, discovered that Charles had been severely injured.
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The tabloid said the government was monitoring the mail of Ramachandran, an LTTE supporter in Canada, and stumbled on the information that Charles had been wounded.
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LTTE sympathizers refuse to believe the report unless corroborated by the rebels' radio stations and websites.
(In the picture: Prabharakan and his family)
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