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2006-09-01 Down Under

FBI : Australian Tamil community sponsoring terror

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Posted by Oztralian 2006-09-01 16:52|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My Sri Lanka friends [extended family] are still afraid [to a degree] of the Tamils even here in the USA.

In fact the main figurehead of the family, D__, still looks furtively around before he answers any of my questions about the Tamils and/or what he thinks about them.

BTW, if i remember correctly he rates the Tamils right up there with Pestilence and Black Death.

Posted by RD 2006-09-01 20:15|| 2006-09-01 20:15|| Front Page Top

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RETIRED PAKISTAN AF OFFICER TO ASSIST IN ANTI-LTTE OPERATIONS By B.Raman

The "Dawn" of Karachi has reported on August 17,2006, that Col. (retd) Bashir Wali, who escaped an attempt allegedly by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to assassinate him on August 14,2006, would be returning to Pakistan next week and is expected to be succeeded by Air Vice-Marshal Shehzad Chaudhry as the new Pakistani High Commissioner to Sri Lanka. [..]

[..] 7. According to the Sri Lankan media, about 200 Sri Lankan armed forces personnel of different ranks are presently undergoing training in different training institutions of Pakistan. Reliable Tamil sources also say that about 12 to 15 members of the Pakistani Armed Forces, including four or five from the Pakistan Air Force, are stationed in Colombo to guide the Sri Lankan security forces in their counter-insurgency operations. The Pakistan Air Force officers have reportedly been guiding the SLAF officers in effectively carrying out air-mounted operations against the LTTE. They have also been reportedly involved in drawing up plans for a decapitation strike from the air, with bunker-buster bombs, to kill Prabakaran.

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Pakistan's increased role against Tamil Tigers angers India: Both set for a proxy war in Sri Lanka? Sat, 2006-08-26 04:08

Pakistan is playing an increased role in Sri Lanka's counter-insurgency operations against the Tamil Tigers -- and this new development is worrying India.

Indian intelligence sources claim that a group of Pakistani officers were drawing up plans jointly with the Sri Lankan Air Force for "a decapitation strike from the air, with bunker-buster bombs, to kill Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran."

This explains why the Tamil Tigers aimed to assassinate Col (retd) Bashir Wali Mohammed, the last High Commissioner (ambassador) to Sri Lanka, when he was on his way back to his residence in Colombo on August 14, 2006 The bomb planted in a trishaw killed four commandos escorting Mohammed who narrowly escaped the explosion. Col. Wali Mohammed is a former Director of the Pakistan Intelligence Bureau. He is the first diplomat to be targeted by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.

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Where the Tigers roam.
districts of Tamilnadu, India map

Sri Lanka Maps, ethnic and religious

Posted by RD 2006-09-01 20:55|| 2006-09-01 20:55|| Front Page Top

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