Lankan Tigers'chief to rally for war

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COLOMBO, Nov 26, 2007 (AFP): The leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil
Tigers will give his annual policy speech from a jungle hideout this week, with observers predicting a rallying call to arms as the island slides back into all-out war.
The reclusive Velupillai Prabhakaran will be speaking at the end of a difficult year for his separatist guerrillas, who were ejected from the east in July and lost their political chief in an air raid earlier this month.
The rebels' fleet of gun-running ships has also been decimated in a string of naval clashes and their fundraising activities abroad severely curtailed, meaning Prabhakaran -- who turns 53 Monday -- has little to celebrate.