| The Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam is an Inter-Services Intelligence-aided terrorist outfit, former Union law minister Dr Subramanian Swamy charged in an interview with an Indian publication. "Recently, an Afghan diplomat told me that Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda supplied the LTTE with weapons. Today, the LTTE has run out of funds, as its channels of funding have been choked by the United States-led campaign against terrorism in Afghanistan. It is for this reason that the LTTE is practically suing for peace with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe." Thought their turnabout was pretty abrupt. Didn't know about the ISI involvement but it's believable. LLTE has been bad news for another perfectly nice country that didn't deserve to have someone else's problems exported to it. Just another argument in favor of disbanding ISI - which remains politically impossible for Musharraf. |