US charges eight with backing Tigers
NEW YORK: The United States unveiled on Monday charges against eight accused of supporting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Authorities said they had unsealed two complaints against defendants who had been in close contact with the LTTE and some of them had met with its leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Four were arrested on Saturday after trying to purchase surface-to-air missiles and AK-47 automatic assault rifles in Canada from an undercover police agent posing as a weapons dealer, the US district attorney in Brooklyn, Roslynn Mauskopf, said in a statement.
More: http://www.dailynews.lk/2006/08/23/sec00.asp
Authorities said they had unsealed two complaints against defendants who had been in close contact with the LTTE and some of them had met with its leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Four were arrested on Saturday after trying to purchase surface-to-air missiles and AK-47 automatic assault rifles in Canada from an undercover police agent posing as a weapons dealer, the US district attorney in Brooklyn, Roslynn Mauskopf, said in a statement.
More: http://www.dailynews.lk/2006/08/23/sec00.asp
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