SRI Lankan Defence Forces finally arrived in Pooneryn located at the northernmost tip of the island, and seperated from the Jaffna peninsular by the Kilali lagoon. However, the LTTE maneged to remove their heavy artillery positioned in this area before the arrival of the SLDF.
The military's Task Force 1 has now acomplished their primary task of completely decimating all LTTE strongholds on the western coast. Their accomplishment also completes sea-denial to the LTTE on the western coast, and thus making it almost impossible to smuggle in supplies and weapons from Tamil Nadu.
Once mopping up ops are completed in and around Pooneryn, the Task force 1 will be available to facilitate opening up a land route to Jaffna and make future opeartions that much easier. It will also sanitize the Kilali lagoon of any terrorist activity, and relieve the pressure on the main bases in Jaffna which were targetted by the LTTE using heavy weaponry based in Pooneryn.
Meanwhile SLDF Divisions 57 and 58 are on the move and will probably complete capture of Killinochchi within a matter of days or weeks. However, it is important that the SLG keeps such news to a minimum, to prevent giving an ulcer to the tamilnadu nattami circus.
The thrust targetting Paranthan also is continuing, and its capture will allow Divisions 53 and 55 currently pining the LTTE terrorists down in Elephant Pass to go into action. Elephant Pass may not be a walk over, but its capture at this point would conclude a decisive phase of the anti-terrorism operations in northern Sri Lanka.
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