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Sri Lanka Tigers deny air strikes against its chief

COLOMBO (AFP) - Tamil Tiger rebels denied that the Sri Lankan military had bombed a base of its top leader, saying the air force had instead targeted a civilian settlement.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said the military carried out four bombing sorties over territory held by them in the Iranamadu area where they have a clandestine air field.

The defence ministry earlier Wednesday said war planes had bombed a suspected base of the Tamil leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran. Military sources said six aircraft had been deployed for the raid based on intelligence reports that Prabhakaran was getting medical care at a jungle hideout in the area.

But LTTE spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiriyan said in a statement that civilian settlements were targeted in the raids, though he did not say if there were any casualties.

Sri Lanka's military has previously claimed either killing or wounding Prabhakaran, 53, in air attacks inside rebel-held territory.

The latest attack came as the defence ministry said two suspected Tiger rebels were killed in skirmishes outside the guerrillas' de facto mini-state on Tuesday.

Since the start of this month, Sri Lanka's defence ministry has said government forces have killed 594 rebels while 26 soldiers have died.

The military's claims cannot be independently verified since journalists and human rights workers are not allowed access to the embattled region.

President Mahinda Rajapakse on Tuesday defended his decision to formally withdraw from a 2002 truce with the LTTE, which has been fighting since 1972 for a separate homeland for the Tamil minority in the majority Sinhalese nation.

Rajapakse said he did not believe in a military solution to end the conflict, but also said he would not negotiate with the rebels until they stopped their armed struggle.

The remarks were in sharp contrast to earlier statements by Rajapakse's brother, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse, who vowed to seize the rebels' mini-state and eliminate the guerrilla leadership.

The government, which believes it has gained the upper hand in the conflict, pulled out of the Norwegian-brokered truce with the rebels earlier in January.

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