Aircraft were on suicide mission:
Even as the Sri Lankan government described the Friday night air attack by the LTTE as a ``failed stunt'', the Tigers claimed the two aircraft shot down by the military were on a suicide mission and ``successfully'' carried out attacks on the Sri Lanka Air Force Headquarters and the SLAF base at Katunayaka.
A suicide bomber struck an Iraqi military base Thursday in an attack that Iraqi officials first said killed 16 soldiers but later maintained no one died but the attacker.The conflicting death counts came at a time when Iraqi officials are under increasing pressure to stop attacks.