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The New York police arrested and produced before court yesterday (25) Karunakaran Kandasamy, believed to be the Director of the American branch of the LTTE. The LTTE is proscribed in the United States as a terrorist organization. The complaint filed before US District Court in Brooklyn states that Karunakaran has “covertly operated within the United States drawing on America’s financial resources and technological advances to further its war of terror in Sri Lanka and elsewhere”, overseen and directed LTTE’s activities in the United States, including fundraising and arranged meetings in LTTE-controlled territory in Sri Lanka between LTTE leaders and prominent LTTE supporters from the United States. “Karunakaran hasn’t merely supported the Tamil Tigers’ cause, he orchestrated U.S. support. We can no sooner allow terrorists to raise funds here than we would allow them to carry out acts of terrorism here”, said Mark J. Mershon, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office. The government’s investigation was conducted by the New
York and Newark Divisions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint
Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), with assistance provided by more than 20 of
the FBI’s Field Offices, including New Haven, CT, Buffalo, NY, Seattle,
WA, Baltimore, MD, Chicago, IL, San Jose, CA, and Los Angeles, CA; the
United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut; U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the U.S. Department of State;
and several foreign governments.
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