Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Four guilty of Tamil Tiger terror charges

Stewart Bell and Adrian Humphreys,

National Post Published: Wednesday, June 10, 2009

RCMP Aided Bust; Support network operated in U. S. and Canada

Four men arrested for their involvement in a Tamil Tigers support network that operated in the United States and Canada pleaded guilty to terrorism charges yesterday.

Karunakaran Kandasamy, Pratheepan Thavaraja, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy and Vijayshanthar Patpanathan face maximum sentences of 15 to 20 years after entering their pleas in a Brooklyn courtroom.

Mr. Kandasamy was the leader of the U. S. branch of the Tamil Tigers, the separatist guerrillas defeated by Sri Lankan government forces last month following more than 25 years of civil war, the U. S. Justice Department said.

Mr. Thavaraja was a senior Tamil Tigers procurement agent who had relied on supporters in the United States and Canada "to assist him in researching and obtaining military technology," according to the indictment.

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