The LTTE is included in the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list published for the year by the US. A total of approx 44 groups hold the distinguished position, which makes them legitimate targets for US military action.
Released by the U.S. State Department, the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations has been prepared by the Washington-based Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT) which continually monitors the activities of terrorist groups active around the world to identify potential targets.
The list also includes Al Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf Group, Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA), Hamas, Palestine Liberation Front, Palestine Islamic Jihad and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The LTTE and its operatives this year began a covert operation to support and fund the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in the aftermath of a much publicized failure to bribe their way out of the terror group listing. A well planned and executed FBI sting operation netted teh LTTE operatives who attempted to bribe Federal officers to de-list the LTTE and also provide them with sophisticated arms to fight the Sri Lankan Defence Forces.
The Clinton campaign, which is suspected to have at least one prominant Tamil Tiger terror supporter amongst its ranks, decided to drop the funding from the group since they are 'currently listed as a terrorist group in the US'. Clinton is known to have made statements sympathetic towards the Tamil Tigers who have so far slaughtered over 70,000 people in Sri Lanka, assasinated Rajiv Gandhi and many others in India and continue to carry out a multitude of illegal and terrorist operations across the world. The LTTE has provided sophisticated weaponry and training to Al Quaida and other middle eastern terror groups, and continues to hold a contingent of child combatants in defiance of UN appeals for their release.
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