LTTE most dangerous extremist outfit: FBI

New York: Describing the LTTE as the ‘most dangerous and deadly extremist’ outfit in the world, the FBI has asked donors to be careful about charities established as front organisations by the rebel group to raise funds to finance its terrorist activities.
The group, FBI said, has placed operatives right in the United States to discreetly raise money to purchase weapons and explosives and to fund its ‘terrorist campaign’ in Sri Lanka.
LTTE has ‘quite a resume’ as a terrorist group, which is credited with perfecting the use of suicide bombers, inventing suicide belts and pioneering the use of women in suicide attacks, the top investigating agency said.
The rebel group's "ruthless tactics" has inspired terrorist networks worldwide, including al-Qaeda in Iraq, it added.
Stating that LTTE has killed some 4,000 people in its campaign of "violence and bloodshed" in the last two years, FBI said its operatives have assassinated two world leaders, "the only terrorist organisation to do so."