Close Call

I received the following e-mail from my friend Nishan in Sri Lanka yesterday. It's a pretty amazing story.

Dear All,



We berely scaped and It's was so scary!!!! It was on Saturday, we all were watching cricket world cup final between Sri Lanka & Australia. at about 1.30AM 0r 2.00 in the morning we experienced a power cut, we all thought it is normal, after about 20 minutes re-connect the power, we start watching the match again and suddenly another power cut. Then our Son Garrett got up because no fan and it was sweating. I took him to outside to make him sleep.



About few minutes later i heard a sound of an air craft flying right about our house, the sound is very much known to us because we don't have that type of light aircraft and I knew this is the one that LTTE have. I can hear it flying not so far from my house i looked up to see where it is, then about 3 or 4 houses away from where my house located became so brightened with a huge noise..... I saw the aircraft as soon as the bomb went off, it was a big backblast and that¢s why I saw this white aircraft, in another few second they dropped the second bomb. My house is few meters away from the country's biggest Oil storage, the LTTE tried to attack Oil Corporation, but the government knew they are making an attempt attack some of the critical areas in Colombo and they had activated the radar system and part of that planned they switched off the electricity so that LTTE won't be able to get the target accuracy. Some how they dropped it almost on to a huge oil tank but no damaged.



I took my family and ran towards a place where i can see them if they are coming back, i didn't want to stay home. The forces start firing at them, it was so much colorful as if we have won the cricket final match, but it wasn't the case it was a real war, people really thought its fire works to show the cricket celebration. Most of the bullets went off over heads and luckily not a single one hit us.



We stayed up until 4.00 in the morning and decided to go home and take a sleep, by that time we had electricity on. This is the first time i witness a LTTE attack, we are very thankful for God protecting us. I am sure this is a miracle, but I feel like we may have to face worst case scenario in the near future. I feel like we all in a big risk here, feel like have to move to a different country if the situation getting worst.



The LTTE have 3 light aircraft, we don't know what will happen, the government is going to bring the LTTE air attack down, they are fighting hard and have redeemed the east part of the country, but LTTE is a world wide organization, they have direct support from lot of rich countries such as Norway is one of the country support LTTE, we are quite sure they recieved this aircraft with support from Norway during peacetalks.



I want an end to terrorism, we can't tolerate them... they are killing not only Sinhalese but many Tamils, Muslims. They are worse than Osama Bin-laden.



I hope YOU are doing very well and send my regards to your family.



Love



Nishan family