COLOMBO: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is one of the %u201Cmost dangerous and deadly extremist outfits in the world%u201D and the world should be concerned about the Tigers as they had %u201Cinspired%u201D networks worldwide, including the Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the United States%u2019 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has said.
In a January 10 report, posted on its website under the title %u201CTaming the Tigers,%u201D the FBI alleged that the LTTE had perfected the use of suicide bombers, invented the suicide belt, pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks, killed some 4,000 persons in the past two years alone and %u201Cassassinated two world leaders %u2014 the only terrorist organisation to do so.%u201D
%u201CNeedless to say, the Tamil Tigers are among the most dangerous and deadly extremists in the world. For more than three decades, the group has launched a campaign of violence and bloodshed in Sri Lanka, the island republic off the southern coast of India. Its ultimate goal: to seize control of the country from the Sinhalese ethnic majority and create an independent Tamil State,%u201D the report said.
