[TamilNet, Saturday, 16 February 2008, 17:13 GMT]
It has been brought to our attention that the photo of Lt. Col. Thileepan’s Anal Cavity brush shown in the article TamilNet Leadership Spotlight: Lt. Colonel Thileepan is in fact a fake! The picture supplied to us was not by our usual Tamil photographer who was home sick with chikungunya.
The photo came from a racist Sinhala freelance photographer and thus he was too lazy to actually travel to Killinochchi to the LTTE War Hero’s Museum and photograph the actual brush. Instead he has apparently taken his own toothbrush, inserted it into his own rectum and photographed it in the hopes that our sharp and clever readers would be fooled.
Nevertheless we received many responses to the articles of complaint from Tamils all around the world who had actually seen the original Thileepan’s Anal Cavity Brush in the museum. We even got a letter from the Right Honorable Major E. Rajaraj (Ret.) who was one of the young LTTE cadres who actually was charged with the responsibility of scrubbing the LTTE Leader’s rectum during his final moments, proving once again that the Tamil Diaspora are not easily fooled!
We have now secured a copy of the actual brush used: as you can see there is a huge difference between the fake and the original. The fake looks clean and new and relatively unused whereas the original bears the tell tale signs that it was truly used to vigorously scrub the fecal matter of an LTTE leader. 
Once again we apologize for this blunder on our part. As true and dedicated journalists here at TamilNet we strive to bring you accurate and unbiased news coverage of how the racist Sinhala GoSL are trying to exterminate the innocent freedom fighting Tamil people and steal our completely legitimate and deserved homeland.