Terror in America: Connect the Dots

Let's connect the dots on the recent Islamic terror busts in the UK and  USA. The terror arrests made the other day in the UK and Wednesday in NY are linked to the Al-Muhajiroun. Al-Muhajiroun members  move on up to al-Qaeda. Al-Muhajiroun is the mouthpiece, the propaganda voice for Al Qaeda. And many Al-Muhajiroun members have become Al Qaeda operatives. And  it was the motley remains of al Mujahiroun who protested in London today.

LTTE also known as The Tamil Tigers is linked to Al Qaeda.  Al Qaeda is linked to LTTE aka Tamil Tigers. The guy who was arrested in Queens on Wednesday was the North American head of LTTE aka Tamil Tigers. Tamil moves in N orthAmerica cause concern -ISN News

Tamil Tigers rep arrested in NYC FOX News 

NEW YORK -- The top U.S. representative of the Tamil Tigers, a rebel group designated as a foreign terrorist organization, orchestrated a covert campaign to finance its escalating conflict with military forces in Sri Lanka, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.    

Karunakaran Kandasamy, 50, was ordered held without bail in New York on charges of providing material support to terrorists. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison. Read it all.

The Justice Department's report on the bust is here. Mohammed Junaid Babar from Queens is one of those al qaeda members.

Read this for more on the Tamil Tigers.

Tamil moves in N America cause concern  

Experts say Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers' recent attempts to buy weapons in New York either show the group's desperation or a possible precursor to international terrorist attacks.

Russian Mafia, Tamil Tigers and Al-Qaeda ‘Another channel for al Qaeda to attack US, courtesy LTTE’

These are the facts. Two major terrorist recruiters and or supporters of terrorism lived virtually next door to each other for over 3 years on Cedarcroft Rd in Queens NY.

Mohammed Junaid Babar was a major recruiter for al-Muhajiroun and he evolved into an Al-Qaeda operative linked to numerous bomb plots in the USA and the UK.  Babar was arrested In Queens in April of 2004  and charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and was involved in fund raising for al-Muhajiroun.

Karunakaran Kandasamy the suspected head of the U.S. branch of Sri Lankan rebel group the Tamil Tigers aka LITE was arrested in Queens New York on Wednesday 4/25/2007 and charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.  As the director of the U.S. branch of the Tamil Tigers, which is based in Queens, New York, Kandasamy oversaw the organization's activities, including its fund-raising, prosecutors said.

In its early days, experts say, the LTTE trained with the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the group may still come into contact with other terrorist organizations through the illegal arms trade.

Al-Qaeda follows LTTE text book on terror faithfully 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 global terrorism.

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.

There are distinct similarties is style.

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 blowing ships 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 attacked 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.  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 public civilian transport in the 7/7 attack's on London transport.

UPDATE: More ties: Tigers sold Norwegian passports to al-Qaeda

TORONTO: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have stolen Norwegian passports and sold them to the al-Qaeda organisation to earn money, Norwegians Against Terrorism Organisation chief spokesman Falk Rovik said.

And from the Sunday Times: Possible links between LTTE and al-Qaeda;

For the second year running a prestigious international institute has highlighted possible links between the LTTE and al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation allegedly responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the United States and other bombings.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the London-based think tank has referred to links between the two organisations both of which are banned as terrorist organisations in several countries.

In its latest issue of the Military Balance 2007 which analyses important world developments and the military hardware of state and non-state actors, IISS however talks of possible commercial links between the LTTE and al-Qaeda and makes no reference to any military connections between them.

IISS was the first international think-tank to publicly announce LTTE’s acquisition of air power. Three years ago the IISS in its Military Balance reported that the LTTE had acquired light aircraft and helicopters.
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“It is possible that the LTTE is using its merchant ships to help transport weapons from al-Qaeda to its cells or support groups in other countries,” one analyst told The Sunday Times.

UPDATE: Keith in India (a country fighting the jihad) adds, "don't forget to mention that the LTTE terror group also murdered the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. India too has suffered from the scourge of these killers."

Comments

[Tracy]

Fact six: The LTTE is anti-Muslim.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GE24Df02.html

"Analysts are warning that the specter of Islamic extremism could be used by the LTTE to convince countries such as India and the United States, which have branded it as terrorist and are intensely worried about radical Islamists, that the Tigers could serve as an important buffer against the rise of radical Islamist groups in the East."

Just thought I'd mention it.

[Josef K]

Pamela, why aren't you working for the CIA?

Great job. We need you!!

[Razdan]

Pamela, I love your blog site and listen in on your blogtalk shows and VLOGs regularly & thoroughly enjoy them. Your intuitions are normally right on the dot, but I do believe that your attempt at connecting LTTE with Islamic terrorism is way off the mark. Yes, LTTE is a terrorist organization (and, unfortunately started the whole idea of suicide bombings) but unlike Islamic terrorism it (i.e. LTTE) is driven purely by a political not religious ideology. And while both the Tamil Tigers and the Islamists use the tactic of suicide bombings there is little love between the two. The LTTE does regularly fight with the muslims in Sri Lanka. This is partly the reason why I find Bush's use of the term "War on terror" as being far too nebulous. Are we fighting the LTTE terrorists? No, since the LTTE does not threaten us in any way... their demands are limited to within the geographic boundaries of Sri Lanka. In contrast, the Islamists aim to subjugate the whole World to Islam.. and are thus a real and tangible threat to the USA. I wish Bush and others would use the term "War on Islamic radicals" or "War on Islamists or even "War on Islam" rather than the vague and way too imprecise term "War on terror". OK I'm off my soap-box.

[Peace]

Don't under estimate the LTTE and don't discountthem just because their terror has not come to USA. To believe that their war is within the boundaries of Sri Lanka is "WRONG" because they are involved in the drug trade, own submarienes, work closely with Alqaida groups and are not interested in any particular cause -- not even the Tamils. They are only interested in terrorism and criminal activity, murder and suicide bombing. The Tamils have suffered more under their brutality in Sri Lanka although the diaspora support the LTTE financially. The LTTE purposely uses the diaspora so that they have a regular flow of funding.

With all the networks in the world, don't underestimate the LTTE. They will take on the work of AlQaida in a heart beat for money and in exchange for their criminal activities. The leader of the LTTE is only interested in being a dictator and he murders anyone who doesn't follow his orders even if it means orders to kill, or die as a wired suicide bomb. He demands children from Tamil families and if they don't let their kids go, he murders the parents. These are the orders given to his highly brainwashed criminal gangs. Don't for a moment think that they are against Muslims and will not join AlQaida. They have no principals. They invented some of the tactics that are followed by ALQaida. Soon it will be the LTTE creating problems in western nations not AlQaida. While authorities watch AlQaida, Ltte will be used to do their dirty work.