Troops take Thampanai
Troops yesterday took full control of Thampanai
town on the Madhu road in the Vavuniya - Mannar sector as Tiger
cadres in the area withdrew amid heavy resistance from advancing
troops, Military sources told the Daily News yesterday.
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British police launch probe into pro-LTTE rally
A rally organised by supporters of the banned
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in London last month and attended
by two Asian Labour MPs, Keith Vaz and Virendra Sharma, has become
the subject of a police investigation following protests from the
Sri Lankan High Commission over the presence of ruling party MPs.
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Tigers get weapons from eight sources - expert
A terrorism expert recently listed eight sources
of arms procurement for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Peter
Leitner, president of the Higgins Counterterrorism Research Center
and professor at the National Center for Biodefense at George Mason
University, said clandestine arms dealers in Tamil Nadu, Bulgaria,
Ukraine, Cyprus, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma and Croatia supply
explosives, weapons and other supplies to the group.
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