LTTE denies link with US arms agents
PK Balachandran Colombo, August 22, 2006 The LTTE on Tuesday denied that it has any links with a group of Tamils who were arrested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for trying to buy arms for it, in defiance of the ban on the organisation in the United States. "We have no connection with the people arrested and this is not our way of operating," Rasaiah Ilanthirayan, the LTTE's Military Spokesman told Hindustan Times over the phone from Kilinochchi. Denying that the LTTE had tried to bribe officials to secure its ends, Ilanthirayan said: "We have never done like this before." A US embassy press release and reports from New York had earlier said that 13 persons from Canada were arrested by the FBI for trying to purchase Russian-made SA-18 surface to surface missiles, missile launchers, AK-47s and other weapons used by the LTTE. They were charged with providing material support to the LTTE that included the procurement of military equipment and dual use technology, fund raising and money laundering through "front" charitable organisations and US bank accounts. They had attempted to obtain classified information, conspired to bribe US public officials in an effort to remove the LTTE from the US State Departments' list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations, and dealt in illegal financial transactions in the US. The US embassy release said that the Canadian and British authorities had provided inputs for the charges made against the arrested persons. The matter is currently before the US District Court in Brooklyn, New York. http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1775140,001302310002.htm [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
