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India support to LTTE and TTP

LTTE, SriLanka & Struggle for controlling Indian Oc

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Brasstacks Policy Paper

India support to LTTE and TTP

LTTE, SriLanka & struggle for controlling Indian Ocean

When military operation by Sri Lanka entered a decisive phase inDecember 2008 there were reports that after getting wounded the

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo V. Prabhakaran crossed thePalk Straits into India to recover from wounds.

The Indian authorities were tight lipped at that time.

After the recent victory of Sri Lankan army over LTTE, Prabhakaran hadno choice but to flee to India with help of RAW the creator of LTTE.

Although Indian Intelligence Agency RAW is directly responsible to the

Prime Minister but ironically the agency has been working hands inglove with LTTE and sheltering militants as well as its chief Prabhakaran

even after India banned LTTE without the knowledge of the Indian

government.

Duplicity of India can be gauged from the fact that despite her

demand for handing over Prabhakaran for murder of Rajiv Gandhi,every time whenever Prabhakaran is trapped in Sri Lanka, it is non

other than India which facilitated his escape.

The recent attempt of saving Prabhakaran by India is in line with Indianpolicy to keep the LTTE leadership intact for future subversive activities

in Sri Lanka.



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The main route of his escape is Plak Straits and to facilitate the escape

Rameshwaram area of India is mostly used in the past too.Besides the LTTE militants have been using islets there to burry arms and

ammunition for transshipment and about 200 industrial units inCoimbatore area of India had been involved actively in illicit

production contraband bomb parts for LTTE.

On February 4, 2009 Sri Lanka army Chief Lt General Sarath Fonseka

told after capturing Mullaitivu that only the Sea Tigers and suicide

cadres can help Prabhakaran escape. As per media reports mostprobably once again the most demanded and dangerous terrorist

Prabhakara will go back to his master ―RAW‖.

Earlier finally LTTE got routed out when Sri

Lankan army ran over its last bastion andmain operation center, Mullaittivu

bringing an end to their decade-longdomination of the country's North. The Sri

Lankan army commander Lt. Gen. Sarath

Fonseka said the 25-year-old bloodyethnic separatist war was 95 percent over. It is a big reason for Sri

Lankans to be jubilant but on the other hand the restlessness of India

over this new development can be well understood primarily due toher own internal equation of ethnic politics.

Under pressure from Tamil political parties the Indian government lastweek officially expressed concern over plight of Tamil population and

operation against LTTE militants.

Political parties from Tamil Nadu have already started pressurising

Indian government to press Sri Lanka for halting operation against LTTEmilitants.

On Saturday (January 31st) Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu under the

banner of ‗Sri Lankan Tamils Protection Movement (STPM)‘ called for

massive protest in the state on February 4th.

The STMP includes all pro-LTTE characters including Nedumaran, MDMKChief, Vaiko, PMK‘s founder -leader, Dr. S. Ramadoss, Pandian,

Thirumavalavan, Tindivanam amamurthy whereas BJP has also joined

the protest.



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To understand the concerns of India, struggle for control of Indian

Ocean, presence of US and the new big game we need to recall thehistorical events intertwined with the strategic location of Sri Lanka.

Background/ strategic importance of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has always been a strategic place as far as the subcontinentgoes and the sub continent has both mythological as well as historical

relations with the place which was very much part of the subcontinent.

But in the history which we are living today it is strategic importancethat matters and Sri Lanka is strategically poised since it is right in the

middle of Indian ocean and the complete potent ial of marit imepossibilities and probabilities have not yet been exploited by the world

that is changing every second. Tamil/Sinahlese problem again is

historical and India took the lead to exploit it for making sure that

strategic gains were her but it did not happen the way India wanted itto happen and a hasty retreat had to be the option but India hadcreated a monster in form of LTTE.

Strategic importance of Indian Ocean:

"Whoever controls the Indian Ocean dominates Asia. This ocean is t he

key t o the seven seas in the twent y-first century, the dest iny of theworld will be decided in these waters," said US Rear Admiral Alfred

Thayer Mahan more than a century ago.

The Indian Ocean covering 2,850,000 sq miles is the third largest in theworld with several important islands and about 47 countries around.It has Indian subcontinent in the North; Malaysia, Indonesia and

Australia in the East; Antartica in the South; and East Africa in the West.

The Indian Ocean covering Red Sea moves towards Suez Canal, andoil-rich Gulf, the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Malacca, which

is a major sea route between the West and the Far East.

In the South of Indian Ocean we have Diego Garcia where US has

naval and air base.



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China has a base in the Coco Island which is near Myanmar and Indiais already there with its Navy covering about 1200 miles. We can also

see Andaman Islands, Maldives, Madagascar and Gwadar in Pakistanand Kawar, the first naval base of India.

It clearly shows the presence of world and some emerging powers inthe Indian Ocean. Besides Indian Ocean is a critical waterway with

heavy trafficking.

Indian Intervention and rise of LTTE

Besides strategically poised in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is ideally

located to hit at Southern India. USA has air and naval bases in the

Indian Ocean, India wanted to be present in Sri Lanka and with aconsiderable Tamil speaking population there in the island (which is

also called as the emerald island) India took the first step but inretrospective it was a half measure. The aim was to stop USA having an

influence in the Indian Ocean but the methodology and strategy used

by India was wrong. In a nut shell it backed the wrong horse LTTE!

Many powers centuries back had tried to keep Indian Ocean under

their tab. India right from the 1954 started showing interests in theIndian Ocean especially when the US started gaining firm strategic

footing around Sri Lanka.

India feared US control over Trincomalee which in other words was a

sure uncontrollable damage to Indian interests in case US had controlover airstrips and naval power. Besides worrying over US Diago Garcia

base in Indian Ocean, India was also alarmed when US announced to



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move aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to Bay of Bengal in support for

Pakistan during 71 war.

It was after that India started thinking on formation of terroristorganization LTTE. Formed in 1976 LTTE began its armed conflict with

the Sri Lankan government in 1983 and relies on a guerrilla warfarestrategy that includes the use of terrorist tactics. After the 1983 riotsIndia started supporting the Tamil militants and in 1987 it had come up

with another idea to have a role in Sri Lanka which could give India

leverage for having strategic hold in the Indian Ocean.

India signed an accord with Sri Lanka in July 1987 for deploying IndianPeace Keeping Force (IPKF). Though apparently the aim was to find a

solution to the Tamil ethnic/separatist problem but it was clearly a

strategic move by India.

Indian duplicity in dealing with the LTTE

Though after signing the accord India had sent its

forces for peace keeping in Sri Lanka butunfortunately Indian soldiers end up sacrificing

their lives for deceptive game of their

government, not knowing that it was their owngovernment that was sacrificing the innocent

soldiers for polit ical mileage.It was reported by media that even when Indian

soldiers were fighting LTTE, India was facilitatingLTTE terrorists. Tamil Nadu was facilitating LTTEcadres for reinforcement and regrouping.

In 1997 a report appearing in Indian Express said ―Soldiers are t he only

innocents in politics. So it seems from the tale of a distraught father

looking for his Army-officer son, evacuat ed with a head wound. The

father walked into a hospital room only t o be t old by the nurse that ,``These four injured are cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE), and your son is in the next room''.

This was in November 1987, the injured Army officer served in the IndianPeace Keeping Force, and the mistaken hospital room was in Chennai,

India! In the truest sense of non-alignment, the Government of India

and its state government in Tamil Nadu were simultaneously treating



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the LTTE cadres injured by the IPKF; and the IPKF personnel injured by

the LTTE.‖

Manvendra Singh wrote in the repor t ―Even while Indian soldiers were

dying in the jungles of north and east ern Sri Lanka, New Delhi was st ill

engaging the LTTE in t alks, and Chennai was allowing the militants torest, recoup and refit in Tamil Nadu. And some intelligence agentswere ambushed in the company of LTTE by t he IPKF, unaware that

New Delhi's operatives were even there and, above all, moving with

the militant s. He further accused RAW of orchestrat ing ambushesagainst Sri Lankan Army which even the IPKF was unaware of.”

―Similarly, the intelligence agencies even organised an ambush in

Amparai by the Indian-raised Tamil National Army on a Sri Lankan Army

brigade commander without the knowledge of the IPKF leadership.

There is even t he case of detailed maps made available to theint elligence agencies, but locked away in dust y cupboards, while theIPKF casualt ies mount ed because of insufficient information.

While a senior int elligence official was arrested for passing information

to a West ern country, officials closely involved with the crisis declaredunequivocally t hat each agency was pursuing its own agenda in Sri

Lanka and each kept the government informed, but only from itsparochial perspective‖, Manvendra Sing claimed in his report.

It was also reported that in clear disregard for sacrifices of Indiansoldier during fighting with LTTE, Indian government was still engage in

talks with LTTE. During the same period Indian Prime Minister RajivGandhi held a meeting with a senior LTTE leader Kasi Anandan at his 10Janpath residence.

Why India provides radars to Sri Lanka instead of weapons?

In the past whenever Sri Lanka asked India for sale of weapons to fightLTTE, India refused to sell necessary military hardware terming it

offensive weapons. However India did provide radars and technical

assistance to Sri Lanka.

When two Indian radar operators were injured in air strikes by LTTEplanes on Sri Lankan Air Force base in Vavuniya, Indians were boasting

about their role in fight against LTTE however they never elaborated

actual reasons for Indian assistance with regard to radars operation.



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There are few reasons for Indian assistance:

1. Safeguarding airspace of Tamil Nadu against any air-strike by

LTTE is of paramount importance because of India's fast -breeder reactor complex at Kalpakam near Chennai, the Russian-aided

Koodankulam nuclear power reactor complex in southern TamilNadu and India's space establishments in Kerala.

2. To block sale of Chinese radars to Sri Lanka because in case of

Indian refusal Sri Lanka will procure these from China and thelater will provide technical assistance as well which India fears

will expose her to direct Chinese monitoring specially of its Southcoast.

India caught between the devil and the sea

It is believed that South India plays a major part in economic boom of

India besides role being played by hardliners from Tamil Nadu in the

Indian political equation gives immense weight to South India. For thelast many years no political party has been able to get a

parliamentary majority to form the single party government; Congress

as well as BJP had been in government in coalition with regionalpolitical parties from Tamil Nadu. Hence Tamil political parties are

becoming like lifesaving drugs for these two major political parties.These regional Tamil politicians have been supporting LTTE and its

agenda since long and had been pressurising successive Indiangovernments not to provide necessary weapons to Sri Lanka.

If India provides such weapons it fears to face widespread protests

from Tamils in South and in that case the ruling party is going to losesupport from Tamil political parties. Besides it would be difficult for

Indian central government to keep a tab on Tamil separatism withinIndia. The scariest scenario for India would be uncontrollable suicide

bombing in case if LTTE turns its screws on India considering its Southern

part as potential separate homeland for Tamil nation.

On one hand it is question of safeguarding Indian integration while onthe other stopping other countries especially Pakistan and China from

getting influence in Sri Lanka. I f India sides with Sri Lanka against LTTE or

if it doesn‘t in both the cases India seems to be landing in the troubledwaters.



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Pakistan’s Role

The solid assurance by Pakistan about two months back pledging to

send one shipload of the wherewithal every 10 days in coming monthsfor bolster Sri Lankan efforts against LTTE prompted Sri Lankan Defence

Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to publicly state that Kilinochchi, theheadquarters of the LTTE, would be liberated by the end of December,2008.

On January 19 in a meeting between Pakistani Defence Secretary LtGen (retired) Syed Athar Ali and his visiting Sri Lankan counterpart

Gotabhaya Rajapakse in Rawalpindi, the two countries agreed toenhance cooperation in military training, exercises and intelligence

sharing regarding terrorism. According to some unconfirmed reports

pilots from Pakistan air force participated in air strikes against bases of

Tamil Tigers in August 2008, besides Pakistan has been providingadvance weapons to Sri Lanka for fighting LTTE at a time when Indiarefused to help.

It is not the first time that Pakistan is helping Sri Lanka militarily to fightLTTE terrorists. Back in year 2000 when LTTE offensive code-named



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Operation Oyatha Alaikal (Operation Ceaseless Waves) overran Sri

Lankan military positions in the north and captured the Elephant PassBase and entered Jaffna; it was feared that LTTE would run down

thousands of Sri Lankan troops stationed in Jaffna, Sri Lanka soughtMBRLs from Pakistan. According to Jane's Intelligence Digest, weapons

and ammunition, including artillery shells and multi-barrel rocketlaunchers, were airlifted in an emergency operation from Karachi toColombo in May.

In 2006 as well Sri Lanka sought multi-barrel rocket launchers (MBRLs)and other advanced weapons from Pakistan when Sri Lankan

President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited Pakistan in March-April 2006along with an 80-member delegation that included military officials.

India was never happy with Sri Lanka over purchase of weapons from

Pakistan.

New players: China, Iran and Saudi Arabia:

The vacuum created by absence of active Indian support to Sri Lanka

against LTTE is being filled by new players including China, Iran andSaudi Arabia which again is a great cause of concern for India other

than worrying about Pak-Sri Lanka military ties.

China has also been supplying necessary arms and weapons to Sri

Lanka to fight the war against the Tamil Tigers. According to recentreports ―Sri Lanka has signed a US $ 37.6 million deal with the Beijing-

based Poly Technologies for a wide variety of arms, ammunition,mortars and bombs. Sri Lanka is also getting some Chinese Jian-7fight ers, JY 11-3D air surveillance radars, armoured personnel carriers, T-

56 assault rifles, machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, rocket -propelled

grenade launchers and missiles."

Besides China is also constructing a modern port at Hambantota in thesouth with an estimated cost of one billion US dollars which will be

completed in 15 years. The port work on which was started in 2007 can

be converted into a naval base in future.

Recently Iran has also agreed to provide assistance to Sri Lankaincluding training a team of Sri Lankan army and intelligence officers in

Iran, besides providing low-interest loan to enable it to purchase

defence-related equipment from China and Pakistan. Iran will alsoinvest US $ 1.5 billion in energy-related projects in Sri Lanka.



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Similarly Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka recently have agreed to

cooperate in areas of mutual interests in the field of oil supply,explorat ion and investments.

US interests:

Keeping in view long term strategic interests in the region US hadalready made its presence felt with constructing Air Force base on

Diego Garcia, a coral atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a

submarine base and a Navy harbor for propositioning equipment andsupplies, in 21 fully-loaded ships at moorings, and in warehouses, for

U.S. military operations in the Arabian Gulf, the Middle East, South Asia,and East Africa.

Diego Garcia is the permanent US outpost nearest the subcontinent as

it lies approximately 2500 nautical miles from Islamabad. The base isapproximately the same distance from Kashmir and 2200 naut ical milesfrom New Delhi.

The presence of American intelligence agencies in Sri Lanka sincedecades is to monitor US interests viz a viz developments taking place

in the neighboring countries around India Ocean also is not a secret.

The central position of the island between the Straits of Malacca andHormuz further gives reasons for US interests in Sri Lanka besides it eyes

Trincomalee harbour. Since centuries Trincomalee harbour has been acentral strategic point for many powers right from Portuguese, Dutch

to Brit ishers. The harbour has played a significant role in WWII .

The presence of all these important countries gives Sri Lanka geo-

political importance keeping in view the bigger game for power in the

Indian Ocean.

In this scheme of things India seems to be at the receiving endalthough the recent warming up of its relations with US might have

decreased concerns about US influence in Sri Lanka which India

always considered a threat to her in the past. But given the history of

US relations with its allies especially Pakistan in the region, Americansare not considered reliable. Above all US doesn‘t tolerate potentialregional powers that challenge or tend to challenge her hegemony in

the future and undercut crit ical US st rategic interests in Asia and India is

no exception as well.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/diego-garcia.htm

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/diego-garcia.htm



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Proximity between Indian support to LTTE and Baitullah Mehsud:

A sharp similarity between Indian active support to LTTE and pulling out

its chief Prabhakaran and militant Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and pullingits chief Baitullah Mehsud with help of CIA is stunning.

To understand the methodology in both the cases we need to have aclose comparison of Indian support to LTTE and TTP.

Sometimes back an Indian army Gen openly accepted that India hasits assets in FATA the tribal areas of Pakistan.

The communication equipment and weapons used by terrorists in FATA

are only used by US or Indian armed forces which even are not

available with Pakistani army.

The following report appeared in Pakistan Observer Newspaper onDecember 30th, 2008

Indian intelligence - RAW network in Afghanistan is the main cause ofdestabilization in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD — According to informed sources Indian intelligenceofficials working in the disguise of diplomats in Embassy and Consulates

in Afghanistan have set up a vast covert operation network to

destabilise FATA, Northern Areas and Baluchistan engaging dozens of

Afghan, Indians, the drug dealers and other Afghan warlords.According to sources several agents hired by the RAW were capturedrecently in FATA, Waziristan and Southern Eastern areas. They have

provided loads of details claiming that the Indian had managed to

penetrate deeply inside Pakistan in collaboration with Indian paidagents in the region.

According to one spy who was recently killed by Taliban happened tobe Indian intelligence official named as C.R. Garg working as Attaché

and Personal Secretary to Indian Ambassador in Kabul who was found

offering as much as US$2000-3200 per one foreigner killed in Pakistan.The spy was given a telephone number for urgent contacts

Another Indian senior official named as Malkit Chand supposedly

working as Third Secretary of Education & Director of Indian Cultural

Centre is found engaged in human trafficking of Pakistani Baluchstudents from Afghanistan to India for their special training. Baluchi

students particularly the children of Baluch nomads are being offered



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a sum of about US$200-300 per month when they are inducted to

proceed to India.

Chandra Mohan Mishra a Third Secretary at Indian Embassy in Kabul

and a person named J. Baby working as an Attaché (Technical) are

alleged to have held several meetings with Baluch militants duringmid-2008. These Indian intelligence officials are also engaged infinancing Pakistani youths and sending them from tribal areas to

several other Central Asian states. Recently two spies were hauled up

and arrested in tribal areas carrying ‗Thuraya‘ satellite phone numbers00-873-763095858, 00-873-763095867 and 0700501385 which belonged

to Indian intelligence officials inside Afghanistan. From the record ofcalls made they were traced down in contacts with Consulate

General of India, posted at Mazar-i-Sharif named Dinesh Behari and

Vice Consul D. N. Dutta.

‗Thuraya Satellite telephone‘ is product made of a dynamic

technology which gives freedom of movement and the ability to stayconnected in more than 110 countries in Europe, North, Central Africa

and large parts of Southern Africa, the Middle East, Central and SouthAsia. This means total coverage whether you are in a village, on a

mountain or by the coast. The GSM/Satellite Phones also are the

handheld phones combine three powerful technologies: satellite, GSMand GPS allowing users the flexibility to avail seamless connectivity

outside terrestrial network and utilise global positioning overview.

Thuraya also has the World‘s Smallest Satellite Phones designed to bethe smallest and lightest phone in the satellite industry, the Thuraya SO-2510, weighs a mere 130gm and is ideal for heavy users who require

only satellite service in areas with limited telecom connectivity like

Afghanistan and Pakistan tribal area. The SG-2520 is the only satellitesmart phone in existence; offering satellite service along with the full

range of advanced features.

Another Indian agents Sanjay Asthana working as Vice Consul at

Habibabad,, in Jallalabad was traced being in touch with above

arrested spies called ‗assets‘ using phone/fax number of 0797638744.An Indian official based in Herat, named Manohar Gangesh is working

as Consul in Indian Consulate. He is known to remain in close contactwith local agents who organize secret meetings and trainings for

Islamic militants. A militant leader has claimed that he discovered the

telephone number of a senior Indian intelligence official RajuBalakrishnan working as a diplomat and Vice Consul in Herat his



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telephone 0799427738 retrieved from the possession of a recently

captured spy after his detailed interrogation.

According to a reliable sources early this year Indian agents

disguised as Muslim militant leaders by the name of Yasin Khan

(Original Indian name Amat Verma) and ―Nasir‖ identified as―Santosh‖ were operating a massive network of terrorists in Jallalabadwhile another so-called ―Islamic militant leader (original name Sudesh )

also operates in Khost. Local Afghan commanders, drug dealers and

military commanders of US- NATO forces are well aware of their activities but they overlook these activities of covert operations against

Pakistan for sake of their own clandestine businesses and nature ofoperation.

Suicide bombing, LTTE and Baitullah Mehsud:

LTTE has said to be the inventor of suicide bombing. FBI in a January 10

report, posted on its website under the title ―Taming the Tigers,‖alleged that the LTTE had perfected the use of suicide bombers,

invented the suicide belt, killed some 4,000 persons in the past twoyears alone and ―assassinated two world leaders — the only terrorist

organisation to do so.‖

On the other hand the militants from TTP terrorist organisation of

Baitullah Mehsud are also using the same methodology of suicide

bombing and haved also been involved in killing of high profile

Pakistani government officials including Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

In an April 2008 report, the U.S. State Department also accuses the LTTEof engaging in abductions and extortion. Similarly the same tactic is

used by Tehrik-e-Taliban for generating money for their terroristactivities.

‘Al-Qaeda follows LTTE text book on terror’

FBI further said in its report that terrorist groups around the world are

following LTTE.

―The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is one of the ―mostdangerous and deadly extremist outfits in the world‖ and the world

should be concerned about the Tigers as they had ―inspired‖ networks

worldwide, including the Al-Qaeda in Iraq‖, Federal Bureau ofInvest igation (FBI) said.

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2007/103709.htm

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2007/103709.htm



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London, 12 February, (Asiantribune.com):

Glen Jenvey a specialist on international terrorism has drawn the

copycat terror tactics of Al Qaeda borrowed from the textbooks of

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – a banned terrorist organization

by the international community.

In an analysis of the lead given by the LTTE for other terrorists

organizations to follow, he has highlighted LTTE as the mastermind that

sets the pattern for organization like Al Qaeda to pursue globalterrorism.

He has drawn the pattern of terror tactics followed by Al Qaeda after the example was set by the LTTE.

Glen Jenvey focuses on the following acts of terror followed by Al

Qaeda after the LTTE has set the examples.

Fact one: The LTTE invented the modern suicide bomber and deployed

it into all their rank's against both political, military and civilian targets.

You now see Islamic groups copy the LTTE with suicide attack's.

Fact two The LTTE attack shipping off the coast of Sri Lanka blowingships or piracy. We then saw attacks on the USS Cole off Yemen and

then you see piracy off the coast of Somalia a strong hold for Al-

Qaeda followers.

Fact three The LTTE attack the World Trade Centre in Sri Lanka you then

see attack's by Al-Qaeda on the World Trade Centre in New York,America.

Fact four The LTTE has a women's section deployed into it's rank's. Yousee Al-Qaeda and Chechen terrorist's who took over the Russian

theatre, use black widow women suicide bombers.

Fact five : Attack's on civilians in bus and trains in Sri Lanka where

innocent passengers were killed, Al-Qaeda in London bombed publiccivilian transport in the 7/7 attack's on London transport.

Now if we have an in-depth analysis of the structure and patron ofTehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan it comes to fore that the terrorist organisation is

an extension of Al-Qaeda and uses the same tactics of LTTE.

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