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V7 Intelligence Report (London Unit)

Using the LTTE as a case study to show that UK banning legislation is an appalling failure in its current format.

Background:

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was banned in the UK on February 28th 2001.

The annual publication of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) London "Military Balance 2005/2006" referred to emerging links between the LTTE and the Al-Qaeda movement. It was later revealed confidentially by the editors to diplomatic sources that these links were in terms of commercial transactions including trafficking for financial gain and acquisition of technology rather than any ideological linkage. Experts are studying with interest links between the LTTE and Al-Qaeda in its financial, commercial and arms dealings. It is also believed that such links also exist in maritime transactions.

The LTTE, better known as the Tamil Tigers, which is engaged in an armed confrontation with the Sri Lankan Government, was the first terrorist organisation to use suicide bombers against civilian and military targets. It has in the last 23 years assassinated the political leadership in Sri Lanka, killed a former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and been involved in the loss of nearly 60,000 lives of mostly innocent civilians.

On August 21, 2006 a British NHS GP at Forest Primary Care Centre, Hertford Road in Edmonton, Dr Murugesu Vineyagamoorthy and his wife Dr Pushpam were arrested in New York by the FBI for attempting to bribe a US Justice Dept official with $1 million to try to get the LTTE off the list of banned terrorist organisations in the USA. He was further charged with facilitating the purchase of American made missiles and British submarine technology for the LTTE. This arrest according to many observers was an eye-opener to the huge volume of money that is raised through extortion and intimidation from the Tamil Diaspora in the UK that is either smuggled into Sri Lanka through human carriers or in the form of weapons purchased in third countries.