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The Morning the Navy Almost Died: Colombo Harbour's Near-Miss Attack
The Morning the Navy Almost Died: Colombo Harbour's Near-Miss Attack
Fear that a single gap could mean annihilation: four Israeli-built Kfir fighters, a landing ship being loaded, and a tanker unloading liquefied petroleum gas all lay inside Colombo Harbour on the morning the LTTE chose to strike - and one patrol boat withdrawing overnight created the opening they needed. How did one missing vessel turn a holiday morning into a near-catastrophe that almost changed the course of a war?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the anonymous piracy call the night before to the pre-dawn…
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