An LTTE supporter alleged in abetting terrorism in US seized in
Indonesia
"The Indonesian police arrested a Sri Lankan wanted in
the United States for allegedly smuggling arms for use in terrorist
attacks in New York, on Thursday the 3rd of January", many international
media repots said.
Pratheepan Thavarajah, 32, was arrested on Thursday at
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta just as he was boarding
a flight to Kuala Lumpur, national police spokesman Anton Bahrul Alam
told reporters.
"He is in our custody and we are investigating him for
seven days before he is sent to the United States," Alam said.
"Indonesia and America has no extradition treaty but
... in this case we will extradite him based on the good relations of
both governments," he added. Anton said Interpol in Washington issued a
warrant for his arrest on August 20, 2006.
A court in New York has issued an order for the arrest
of Thavarajah on arms smuggling conviction. If found guilty in arms
smugglind and abetting terrorism the suspect could face 15 years in
Prison according to the US laws.
However, the Indoniaisn police revealed that it had
not set a date to extradite the suspect to the United States, to which
Indonesia has no extradition treaty
It has been further revealed that the suspect has been
the main arms dealer for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or the
LTTE, one of the worlds most ruthless terrorist organization. Although,
not categorized as an International terror outfit, the growing evidence
shows that the LTTE has become the main hub for arms smuggling, money
laundering, drugs trafficking and other fund raising activities for the
whole network of terror outfits across the globe.
Through its vast network of propaganda machinery and
its hired hands in the international humanitarian organizations', INGOs
and news agencies; the LTTE has successfully mislead the international
community that some countries still hesitate to accept it as a terror
outfit.
Unfortunately, this has given the LTTE a sort of
immunity to operate freely across the globe and flourish its links with
the other terror outfits that are not so privileged.
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