FBI Court Document Reveals in Detail: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger Arms Procurement Plot
Washington, D.C. 16 September (Asiantribune.com): As the 2002 cease-fire document between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who have launched an armed insurrection since mid-eighties to gain a separate independent state in Sri Lanka’s northern and eastern provinces for ethnic minority Tamils, brokered by the Norwegian facilitators, has fallen apart with fresh hostilities, the United States FBI says in its 34-page complaint unsealed on August 21 in US District Court in Brooklyn, New York that its investigations have discovered that the Tamil Tigers wanted radio towers, missile-launchers, AK-47s, night-vision goggles – even software to design submarines and warships. And they are asking their sympathizers in western nations to help them get it.
According to two complaints unsealed, 13 Sri Lankan ethnic Tamils, domiciled in Canada and the United States, are being charged with multiple crimes, including conspiracy to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization – the LTTE – which is a crime under U.S. terrorism laws.
The complaint also charged that the defendants attempted to obtain classified information, conspired to bribe U.S. public officials in an effort to remove the LTTE from the U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and dealt in illegal financial transactions with the Tamil Tigers.
The FBI document has struck the names of some in the complaint report to withhold their identity, possibly some Sri Lankan ethnic Tamils who have decided to cooperate with the agency to facilitate the prosecution.
The Asian Tribune will now carry in these columns the full text of the FBI document which was presented in the New York District Court. The U.S. Bureau of the Asian Tribune obtained this 34-page document from the U.S. Justice Department’s New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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posted by Anonymous at 9/16/2006 06:53:00 PM
5 Comments:
Tigers should be cracked down globally! That is the only way that we can do something to solve this problem in Sri Lanka and help the country develop.
We can’t count of US to crack down Tigers when even they could not crack down 911 guys yet.. But any help form US always welcome as long as they do not turn a around in the middle and run after wrong direction.. just like they forget about Bin Laden and run after Sadam.
No we should not, but we should get all the help from these countries to tie the terrorist down and work towards a common goal.
LTTE does not want peace, they want to regroup right now, after loosing very badly recently.
So we should not give in to them this time. Only way for peace talks is they give up all arms and give names and lists of all terrorist who are supporters globally.
This information should also be shared with all international governments for future references. This will indeed show the LTTE is ready for peace talks.
Until such activity happens, it should not be taken likely. After all they are terrorist.
great idea, but will it work?
we have to ensure that it works. the government alone is not enough. we should have the community unite with the international governments and press the tigers to do so.
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