There are reports that the LTTE met Taliban members and discussed the " Sharjah network ", which existed in the Sharjah emirate of the United Arab Emirates.

In January 2011, Swiss authorities arrested several LTTE members on money laundering.

In 2007, Norwegian authorities sentenced 6 LTTE members for skimming more than 5. 3 million Norwegian kroner in a similar credit card scam.

It was eventually determined the bombers had come from Jaffna, in the north of the country and were LTTE members.

Its members were so successful in assassinating key LTTE figures that many LTTE leaders refused to come out of their jungle bunkers before the 2002 ceasefire was implemented.

On 29 November 2007, more than 25 civilians were killed and more than 50 were injured when a bomb believed to be planted by members of the LTTE terrorist group exploded outside a clothing store at a traffic junction near Nugegoda.

Madras witnessed further political violence due to the civil war in Sri Lanka, with 33 people killed by a bomb planted by the Tamil Eelam Army at the airport in 1984, and assassination of thirteen members of the EPRLF and two Indian civilians by the rival LTTE in 1991.

LTTE had given many speeches in Tamil Nadu led by Velupillai Prabhakaran, Tamilselvan, and other Eelam members.

Once the IPKF withdrew, the military strength of these groups melted away, with most of their members surrendering to the LTTE in fear of reprisals.

Being aware of the purchase of 35, 000 mortar bombs, the LTTE made a bid to the manufacturer through a numbered company and arranged a vessel of their own to pick up the load.

Beginning on 23 July 1983, there was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers ), a separatist militant organisation which fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island.

The Sri Lankan military launched an offensive, called " Operation Liberation " or Vadamarachchi Operation, during May – June 1987, to regain control of the territory in the Jaffna peninsula from the LTTE.

The use of the explosive belt or vest originated with, and was perfected by the Tamil separatists of Sri Lanka called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ).

The agreement made with Rajapaksa included provisions which called for a revision of the ceasefire agreement to give the military broader powers against the LTTE, as well as ruling out of any devolution of power to the Tamil people.

The government of Sri Lanka then adopted a policy of military engagement with the Tigers, with government forces liberating Jaffna from LTTE control by mid-1996 and moving against LTTE positions in the northern part of the country called the Vanni.

LTTE is also involved in credit card fraud, in the United Kingdom.

LTTE had cloned credit cards using PIN and card numbers obtained from unsuspecting card holders in the United Kingdom, and funds were transferred out of their accounts later.

The United States and the United Kingdom proscribed the LTTE on 8 October 1997 and 28 February 2001 respectively, thereby depriving that organization of a primary source of funding.

WikiLeaks made public of secret US cables ( Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak ( Sri Lanka )) from 2009 – 10, stating that American diplomats including Patricia Butenis believed that Mahinda Rajapaksa was responsible for the massacres of Tamil civilians and captured LTTE fighters at the end of the war with the LTTE.

* 2005 – Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.

A controversial figure, Thackeray has attracted significant attention by making statements expressing admiration for Hitler as an artist and demagogue, while condemning the Holocaust, inciting violence against Muslims, expressing support for the LTTE, and taking strong stances on the aspects of popular culture, including fervent opposition to the celebration of Valentine's Day.

* 1987 – First instance of the LTTE using suicide attacks on Sri Lankan Army.

Jordanian vessel MV Farah III, hijacked and towed into Mullaitivu shores by LTTE in December 2006.

It is suspected that the vessel was hijacked by the LTTE and is now being used as a phantom vessel.

Once the bombs were loaded into the ship, the LTTE changed the name and registration of their ship.

In 2002, Prabhakaran appointed Castro as the international chief of LTTE.

Most of the smuggling of Tamil people to western countries was carried out by LTTE.

The prices charged by LTTE to go to countries such as Canada was extremely higher than the normal cost to travel.

In addition, money had to be paid to obtain " exit visas " to leave LTTE controlled areas.

A cost of LKR 4 million per immigrant was " enforced " by LTTE operatives.

LTTE had coerced Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora and Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka to give it money, by threatening the safety of their relatives or property in areas under its control.

LTTE was involved in several money laundering cases in western countries.

In 1990, Canadian authorities uncovered a passport forgery scheme run by LTTE.

In December 2010, Spanish and Thai police uncovered another passport forgery scheme attributed to LTTE.

A number of intelligence agencies have accused that LTTE is involved in drug trafficking.

In 2010, citing Royal Canadian Mounted Police sources, the Jane's Intelligence Review said the LTTE controls a portion of the one billion dollar drug market in the Canadian city of Montreal.

US Department of Justice states that LTTE has historically served as the drug couriers moving narcotics into Europe.

Indian authorities accused LTTE operatives used to bring narcotics to Mumbai from Mandsaur District of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab border.

Congressional members have tried repeatedly to relocate the Congress back to Santiago, where it operated until the Chilean Coup of 1973, but have not been successful.

The CCC operated an entirely separate division for members of federally recognized Indian tribes: the Indian Emergency Conservation Work, IECW, or CCC-ID.

The medieval guild was established by charters or letters patent or similar authority by the city or the ruler and normally held a monopoly on trade in its craft within the city in which it operated: handicraft workers were forbidden by law to run any business if they were not members of a guild, and only masters were allowed to be members of a guild.

The Freedom Assembly, which operated in Sydney during the tumultuous period of 1891-93, had as members well-known Australian labor movement people such as William Lane, Ernie Lane, WG Spence, Arthur Rae and George Black.

There were three successive incarnations of the organization, the " first generation " which consisted of Baader and his associates, the " second generation " RAF, which operated in the mid to late 1970s after several former members of the Socialist Patients ' Collective joined, and the " third generation " RAF, which existed in the 1980s and 1990s.

Many members of the RAF operated through a single contact or only knew others by their codenames.

) Led from within Thailand from the office of the regent Pridi, it operated freely, often with support from members of the Royal family such as Prince Chula Chakrabongse, and members of the government.

The Commercial Crew Development ( CCDev ) program was initiated in 2010 with the purpose of creating commercially operated manned spacecraft capable of delivering at least four crew members to the ISS, staying docked for 180 days and then returning them back to Earth.

The Witenagemot ( Old English witena gemōt " meeting of wise men "), also known as the Witan ( more properly the title of its members ) was a political institution in Anglo-Saxon England which operated from before the 7th century until the 11th century.

In the 1960s, experimental monastic groups were formed in which both men and women were members of the same house and also were permitted to be married and have children — these were operated on a communal form.

However, the Supreme Court ruled that non-profits operated for the benefit of their members ' commercial activities are subject to FTC regulation and consequently also COPPA.

Sometimes those four members of the band operated under their their pseudonyms: Dachauer, Keller, Saliger and Eber.

Its members operated in air-tight cells of four or more men and women.

In 2000, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ( ABC-TV ) international affairs program " Foreign Correspondent " broadcast a special report " Sierra Leone: Soldiers of Fortune ", focusing on former 32BN and Recce members who operated in Sierra Leone while serving for SANDF.

The FTP was open to non-communists, but it operated under communist control, with its members predominantly engaged in acts of sabotage and guerrilla warfare.

CJSW is a member of the National Campus and Community Radio Association and the University of Calgary Tri-Media Alliance in partnership with NUTV ( the campus television station ) and The Gauntlet ( the campus newspaper ). CJSW is a non-profit society maintained and operated by a group of four staff members and over 200 volunteers drawn from both the University of Calgary student body and the wider city of Calgary population.

The university is primarily for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, however, it is not owned or operated by the church, nor does it have any official affiliation with the church.

During its early years, the foundation operated in Michigan under the leadership of Ford family members and their associates, and supported the Henry Ford Hospital and the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, among other organizations.

The team started out in 1929 as members of the Southern League and operated until the Second World War.

Today it is operated as a museum and had been carefully preserved by generations of historical society members.

* On 23 July 1968, El Al Flight 426 operated by a Boeing 707-358C on route from London to Tel Aviv via Rome, was hijacked by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine shortly after take-off from Rome-Fiumicino airport and forcibly diverted to Algiers.

For example: British Airways flight BA4552 is actually the same flight as CX118 operated by Cathay Pacific ( CX )— both are members of the Oneworld airline alliance.