LTTE planned attack with plane from Chennai: Sri Lanka Prez
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said the LTTE militant group planned to attack targets in Colombo in 2009 by operating an aircraft "from Chennai or some other jungle area" in Tamil Nadu. Addressing the Sri Lankan community in the US, Sirisena added that all senior Sri Lankan leaders had fled the country that time fearing an LTTE air raid.