LTTE had links with TTP,anti-Pakistan Taliban

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LTTE had links with jihadi groups’

By Frances Bulathsinghala
Monday, 14 Sep, 2009 | 09:59 AM PST

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan experts on terrorism have said that the LTTE maintained a front company in Karachi to arrange arms smuggling and a safe house in Peshawar for contacts with Taliban.

According to Shanaka Jayasekara, who carried out research on terrorism at the Macquarie University of Australia, LTTE’s arms procurer Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP travelled from Bangkok to Kabul via Karachi on May 19, 2001, and met Taliban leaders to discuss matters relating to the so-called ‘Sharjah network’, an arms supply line run by the Russian dealer Victor Bout who operated three to four flights a day to Kabul to transport weapons.



Lakbima News online quotes Mr Jayasekara as saying that the LTTE operated a cargo company in Dubai, 17kms from the offices of the Sharjah network.



The company named ‘Otharad Cargo’ was headed by Daya, younger brother of Nithi, a Canada-based member of LTTE’s arms procurement unit under KP.



Otharad Cargo is believed to have acquired several consignments of military hardware as part of consolidated purchase arrangements with Taliban’s Sharjah network.



Mr Jayasekara claims that information recovered from a laptop computer of an LTTE procurement agent, now in the custody of a western country, has provided detailed information on LTTE’s activities in Pakistan.



The LTTE had registered the front company in Karachi which procured several consignments of weapons for the LTTE as well as Pakistani militant groups.



A shipment of weapons procured by the company was intercepted and destroyed by Sri Lankan navy in September 2007, he says.



Lakbima News cites a Jane’s Intelligence report of November 2002 on terrorist financing in South Asian states which says that LTTE’s shipping fleet provided logistic support to Harakatul Mujahideen for transporting a consignment of weapons to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in the Philippines.



The LTTE used a merchant vessel registered by a front company in Lattakia, Syria, until 2002 to service most of its 'grey/black charters'.



According to Rohan Gunaratna, a Sri Lankan expert on terrorism with the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism in Malaysia, the LTTE had links with jihadis in the NWFP and had a safe house in Peshawar.


Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said recently that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa had told him in Tripoli that elements in Sri Lanka were linked with terrorist incidents in Pakistan, including an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on March 3.

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So this also means that those news about attack on Sri Lankan team did have some link with LTTE. ?

 

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‘KP met Taliban for arms running’

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First Published : 14 Sep 2009 02:22:00 AM IST
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COLOMBO: Sri Lankan experts on the LTTE have said that the outfit had a front company in Karachi to smuggle arms, and a safe house in Peshawar to liaise with the Taliban.

According to Shanaka Jayasekara, a terrorism researcher based in Macquarie University, Australia, the LTTE’s arms procurer, Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP, had traveled from Bangkok to Kabul through Karachi, on May 19, 2001. He had meetings with Taliban officials on matters relating to the notorious “Sharjah Network”. The “Sharjah network” is an arms supply line run by the infamous Russian arms dealer, Victor Bout, who had operated three to four flights daily to Kabul to transport arms.

Lakbimanews quotes Jayasekara as saying that the LTTE operated a cargo company Otharad Cargo in Dubai, 17 km from the offices of the Sharjah Network.

Otharad Cargo is believed to have acquired several consignments of military hardware as part of consolidated purchase arrangements with the Taliban’s “Sharjah network”.

Jayasekara claims that information recovered from a laptop computer of an LTTE procurement agent, now in the custody of a Western country, has provided detailed information on LTTE’s activities in Pakistan.

According to Rohan Gunaratna, a Sri Lankan expert on terrorism with the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism, in Malaysia, the LTTE had links with Jehadis in the Pakistani frontier and it had a safe house in Peshawar.

Pakistani Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, had said that the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, had told him in Libya recently, that elements in Sri Lanka were linked with terrorist events in Pakistan, including the gun attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.

 

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So this also means that those news about attack on Sri Lankan team did have some link with LTTE. ?

What is this LTTE?

 

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What is this LTTE?

LTTE a terrorist organisation which was created by India and funded by India and which was fighting Sri Lankan army uptill few months back.

 

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Liberation Tiger of Tamil Elaam.

 

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LTTE a terrorist organisation which was created by India and funded by India and which was fighting Sri Lankan army uptill few months back.

IS THIS CALLED FUNDING

In 1987, faced with growing anger among its own Tamils, and a flood of refugees,[24] India intervened directly in the conflict for the first time by initially airdropping food parcels into Jaffna. After subsequent negotiations, India and Sri Lanka entered into the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. Though the conflict was between the Tamil and Sinhalese people, India and Sri Lanka signed the peace accord instead of India influencing both parties to sign a peace accord among themselves. The peace accord assigned a certain degree of regional autonomy in the Tamil areas with Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) controlling the regional council and called for the Tamil militant groups to lay down their arms. India was to send a peacekeeping force, named the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), part of the Indian Army, to Sri Lanka to enforce the disarmament and to watch over the regional council.[32][33]

Although the accord was signed between the governments of Sri Lanka and India, and the Tamil militant groups did not have a role in the agreement,[25] most Tamil militant groups accepted it.[34] But the LTTE rejected the accord because they opposed the candidate, who belonged to the EPRLF, for chief administrative officer of the merged Northern and Eastern provinces.[33] Instead, the LTTE named three other candidates for the position, which India rejected.[34] The LTTE subsequently refused to hand over their weapons to the IPKF.[25]

Thus LTTE found itself engaged in military conflict with the Indian Army, and launched its first attack on an Indian army rations truck on October 8, killing five Indian para-commandos who were on board by strapping burning tires around their necks.[35] The government of India decided that the IPKF should disarm the LTTE by force,[35] and the Indian Army launched number of assaults on the LTTE, including a month-long campaign dubbed Operation Pawan to win control of the Jaffna peninsula from the LTTE. The ruthlessness of this campaign, and the Indian army's subsequent anti-LTTE operations made it extremely unpopular among many Tamils in Sri Lanka.[36][37]

 

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IS THIS CALLED FUNDING

In 1987, faced with growing anger among its own Tamils, and a flood of refugees,[24] India intervened directly in the conflict for the first time by initially airdropping food parcels into Jaffna. After subsequent negotiations, India and Sri Lanka entered into the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. Though the conflict was between the Tamil and Sinhalese people, India and Sri Lanka signed the peace accord instead of India influencing both parties to sign a peace accord among themselves. The peace accord assigned a certain degree of regional autonomy in the Tamil areas with Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) controlling the regional council and called for the Tamil militant groups to lay down their arms. India was to send a peacekeeping force, named the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), part of the Indian Army, to Sri Lanka to enforce the disarmament and to watch over the regional council.[32][33]

Although the accord was signed between the governments of Sri Lanka and India, and the Tamil militant groups did not have a role in the agreement,[25] most Tamil militant groups accepted it.[34] But the LTTE rejected the accord because they opposed the candidate, who belonged to the EPRLF, for chief administrative officer of the merged Northern and Eastern provinces.[33] Instead, the LTTE named three other candidates for the position, which India rejected.[34] The LTTE subsequently refused to hand over their weapons to the IPKF.[25]

Thus LTTE found itself engaged in military conflict with the Indian Army, and launched its first attack on an Indian army rations truck on October 8, killing five Indian para-commandos who were on board by strapping burning tires around their necks.[35] The government of India decided that the IPKF should disarm the LTTE by force,[35] and the Indian Army launched number of assaults on the LTTE, including a month-long campaign dubbed Operation Pawan to win control of the Jaffna peninsula from the LTTE. The ruthlessness of this campaign, and the Indian army's subsequent anti-LTTE operations made it extremely unpopular among many Tamils in Sri Lanka.[36][37]

This is called saving own skin when the Monster which was once created and nurtured by India was out of controle.


We have already many times discussed the IPKF story and how Indian officials and RAW were still sheltering the LTTE terrorists when the Indian soldiers were being killed in SL.

 

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This is called saving own skin when the Monster which was once created and nurtured by India was out of controle.


We have already many times discussed the IPKF story and how Indian officials and RAW were still sheltering the LTTE terrorists when the Indian soldiers were being killed in SL.

any creditable sources for that

 

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any creditable sources for that

I have also quoted this man in my write up too. This write up mostly quoted Indian military officers so you can not say it is a propaganda



LTTE's India links were far more dubious than are made out to be
Manvendra Singh
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NEW DELHI, November 12: Soldiers are the only innocents in politics. So it seems from the tale of a distraught father looking for his Army-officer son, evacuated with a head wound. The father walked into a hospital room only to be told by the nurse that, ``These four injured are cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and your son is in the next room''.

This was in November 1987, the injured Army officer served in the Indian Peace Keeping Force, and the mistaken hospital room was in Chennai, India! In the truest sense of non-alignment, the Government of India and its state government in Tamil Nadu were simultaneously treating the LTTE cadres injured by the IPKF; and the IPKF personnel injured by the LTTE.


A cross-section of officials who dealt with India's crisis in Sri Lanka are clear about New Delhi's duplicity in dealing with the LTTE. The furore, therefore, over portions of the Jain Commission report pointing fingers at one of the Dravidian political parties is misplaced on account of one basic fact, every political organisation in Tamil Nadu, national or regional, was involved in promoting and sustaining activities of the LTTE and they were aided by the intelligence agencies of the Centre as well as the State Government.

``So much of this mish-mash, cross wiring of political and military decisions left us wondering as to who was actually in charge of policy'', says Major General (Retd) Ashok Mehta, a division commander during IPKF operations.

From the beginning of India's involvement with militant Sri Lankan Tamil groups in 1981, until late 1993, its intelligence agencies were actively involved with, and in the promotion of, the LTTE; and for most of this period, the Congress was the ruling party.


The recently published book Assignment Colombo by J N Dixit, the former Foreign Secretary and the then High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, is replete with instances of active contact maintained by agencies of the governments of India and Tamil Nadu with the LTTE, even after the commencement of `Operation Pawan' by the IPKF. Dixit is explicit in stating that, but for the armed forces, no other Indian agency conducted itself with honour and integrity during the entire involvement with the Sri Lankan Tamil problem.

``As a result, what we had in Sri Lanka was a mess and Delhi was neck-deep in what it had created'' said a serving officer. ``So we don't even know whether, first, information about the IPKF was being passed on to the LTTE, and secondly, how much help is given to them after all that has happened'', he added.

Even while Indian soldiers were dying in the jungles of north and eastern Sri Lanka, New Delhi was still engaging the LTTE in talks, and Chennai was allowing the militants to rest, recoup and refit in Tamil Nadu. And some intelligence agents were ambushed in the company of LTTE by the IPKF, unaware that New Delhi's operatives were even there and, above all, moving with the militants.

Similarly, the intelligence agencies even organised an ambush in Amparai by the Indian-raised Tamil National Army on a Sri Lankan Army brigade commander without the knowledge of the IPKF leadership. There is even the case of detailed maps made available to the intelligence agencies, but locked away in dusty cupboards, while the IPKF casualties mounted because of insufficient information.

While a senior intelligence official was arrested for passing information to a western country, officials closely involved with the crisis declared unequivocally that each agency was pursuing its own agenda in Sri Lanka and each kept the government informed, but only from its parochial perspective.

``So while its soldiers were fighting in the jungles, its diplomats managing the crisis, New Delhi continued to hobnob with the LTTE through its intelligence operatives'', said a serving official, once closely involved with the crisis. Such contacts, therefore, resulted in Rajiv Gandhi meeting Kasi Anandan, a senior LTTE functionary, at his 10 Janpath residence months before he was assassinated.

Copyright © 1997 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.

LTTE's India links were far more dubious than are made out to be

 

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See how easy it is for some to divert from the topic.

 

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LTTE a terrorist organisation which was created by India and funded by India and which was fighting Sri Lankan army uptill few months back.

In simple words the link is India... LTTE or TTP are just functionaries.

 

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i think it is very important to know the behind scren crector of any dirty game LTTE and TTP are not the players they are like snooker balls the main players are india and the father of india i mean to say russia actuly indian misshion is to destablise nebours to full fill ther drem of super power of the reagon. and other thing is in this regon there are number of mafias are working they do any thing for money arms drug human and difrent trades and this is the an other eliment of linkes betwen bouth contres of terror and the major elimet is difrent agences worek for there trgets and i think it up to the pepole of this regon to face the challenge and also on the plotical powers