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A court in the United States has sentenced a retired Indonesian general to thirty months in prison for conspiring to provide weapons to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels. The court said the former Marine Corps general, Erick Wotulo, 61, would be deported from the US after serving his sentence. Mr Wotulo and five others were arrested in an undercover operation by FBI officials posing as weapons dealers in 2006. The men were accused of attempting to purchase Surface to Air Missiles, Night Vision Devices, Machine Guns and State of the Art Firearms for Sri Lanka’s LTTE.
The US State Department designated the LTTE as a foreign terrorist organisation in 1997. “International arms brokers looking to equip terrorist organizations with advanced American weaponry will not be tolerated,” said James A. Dinkins, Special Agent in Charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Baltimore. Two others, an Indonesian, Haji Subandi, and a Sri Lankan, Thrinavukarasu Varatharasa have already been jailed in the same case. Haniffa Bin Osman, a citizen of the Republic of Singapore, who pleaded guilty to the conspiracy and money laundering is scheduled to be sentenced in August, 2008. | LOCAL LINKS  FBI 'to tame' LTTE in the US11 January, 2008 | Sandeshaya Indonesian ex-general pleads guilty 24 February, 2007 | Sandeshaya 'International terrorist' extradited to US11 January, 2007 | Sandeshaya Alleged Tamil tiger extradited to US10 January, 2007 | Sandeshaya EXTERNAL LINKS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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International arms brokers looking to equip terrorist organizations with advanced American weaponry will not be tolerated
