quote="Saradiel, post: 5027439
sorry dude , your source is Lanka website and has no credibility its nothing but hogwash.
Sri Lanka had superior fire power and support from 7 major powerful countries , China, Russia, India Israel , Pakistan and Iran in military training, intelligence support and supply of sophisticated weapons of mass destruction
How India secretly helped Lanka destroy the LTTE - Rediff.com News
That is infor extracted from KP. Though you try to dismiss them here they are well reported and with evidence.
Eritrea providing direct military assistance to LTTE - USSFRC
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United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee (USSFRC) report has revealed that Eritrea was providing direct military assistance to LTTE.
Although a report released by the USSFRC did not specifically identify the
military assistance given to the LTTE, it had confirmed the direct link between the LTTE and Eritrea.
This was based on the findings of a six member Senate Foreign Relations Committee majority staff conducting an investigation in 20 Latin American, Asian and the Middle East. The delegation had studied 'counterterrorism strategy, policies and activities, giving special attention to foreign assistance.'
"Eritrea won independence from Ethiopia in 1993. Until a UN resolution in 1952 united both countries Eritrea was a sovereign nation with distinct nationality to that of the Ethiopian. Since then, the Ethiopians and Eritreans have been engaged in military offensive until the latter's independence endorsed by the United Nations."
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Sri Lanka was one of the countries year marked by the Bush White House last year for enhanced military assistance, and it is up to the diplomatic efforts of the Sri Lanka government to use her public diplomacy from the American ambassador to the officials of the State Department to justify the need for military assistance to combat the home grown terrorism that has threatened her territorial integrity, sovereignty and democracy."
This is the first occasion that an influential and powerful senate committee such as foreign relations has arrived at a conclusion when discussing the Tamil Tiger activities in Sri Lanka and the threat that it posses to this South Asian island-nation's territorial integrity, sovereignty and her near-six decade old democratic system in identifying a member nation of the United Nations providing military aid against another member of the same World Body which has a legitimate democratically elected government to facilitate a rebel group fighting for a separate state.
The then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Richard Lugar, now the Ranking Member of the same committee after the Democratic majority in the Senate took over the control of all committees of the Senate in January 2007, made the findings of his staff available for Congressional record on 15 December 2006 with copies to the White House, State and Defense Departments.
LTTE diaries may prove foreign link
Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times
Colombo, July 23, 2010
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First Published: 20:42 IST(23/7/2010)
Last Updated: 00:14 IST(24/7/2010)
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bunch of yellowing diaries found in a former Tamil Tiger hideout in northern Sri Lanka could provide vital clues to Lankan intelligence agencies about the rebels' existing international and fund raising networks. Sri Lankan army search teams stumbled upon not only the diaries but scores of abandoned passports and other documents during a search operation in Viswamadu, which is not very far from the final theatre of battle in north-eastern Sri Lanka.
According to the defence ministry, the diaries and the documents have so far yielded vital information about the LTTE's alleged involvement in human trafficking, arms smuggling and financial dealings in east Asia, western Europe, Canada and Africa.
The documents have also revealed information about LTTE investments around the world and transactions connected to the group's shipping operations.
The defence ministry claimed that Lankan intelligence agencies were on the verge of arresting an LTTE cadre Narendran, a Tamilian married to a Russian, operating from a country in Europe.
The ministry added that they were also tracking two more people, Bhavidaran and Rooban, who are allegedly running LTTE front offices in Indonesia.
Colombo is also pursuing several governments to dismantle three broad groups that are now assumed to be controlling the remaining pro-LTTE international factions: the US group is said to be headed by V. Rudrakumaran, the UK group by Aruththanthai Emmanuel of the World Tamil Forum (WTF) and the Norway group by Nediyavan.
Recently, at least eight persons in the Netherlands and five in Germany were arrested by the respective government agencies on suspicion of having links with the LTTE.
The Sri Lanka government is also using diplomatic channels to stall pro-LTTE activities and dismantle arms smuggling network in the African country of Eritrea.
In
early 2009, the Tamil Tigers here were ready to receive a consignment of several dismantled light aircraft to be shipped from the Eritrean coastline. But before the shipment could be sent, the civil war ended here.
Another one,
Sri Lanka recovers 12 Tamil Tiger fighter planes in Eritrea
Kumaran Pathmanathan's (KP) arrest, interrogation, and subsequent investigations have revealed
Eritrea's involvement in aiding the Tamil Tigers.
Eritrea is a
African nation bordering Ethiopia, and has long been a safe haven for terrorist networks and pirates. Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda has been operating from the impoverished African nation for a decade, or more.
With information obtained by Pathmanathan,
Sri Lanka's intelligence agency has been preoccupied, of late, with destroying the Tigers' arms networks and financial networks overseas.
12 Tamil Tiger (LTTE) aircraft have been located parked at the Eritrea airport. Sri
Lanka hopes to
open an embassy in Eritrea, and is also in talks with the Eritrean government in order to
confiscate the planes.