"Retired Sri Lankan air force wing commander C.A.O Direckze said that to maintain a handful of light aircraft, the LTTE must possess an efficient engineering facility, a limited training facility and an improvised explosive devices producing facility." SRI LANKA: 'Flying Tiger' Raids Pose Hard Questions - Analysis by Kalinga Seneviratne - END/2007 - [6]பரணிடப்பட்டது 2008-04-08 at the வந்தவழி இயந்திரம்
rediff.com
"Reports have suggested that the LTTE, which has a naval wing called the Sea Tigers, is building a mini-submarine as part of its new arsenal." LTTE trying to acquire submarine?March 29, 2007 19:52 IST [3]
"And, according to Gunaratna, among insurgency groups, it pioneered the battlefield use of off-the-shelf civilian technologies -- for example, in learning how to accurately target projectiles with Global Positioning Satellite signals. The group's leaders use satellite telephones to link up with their combatants in the field, with their overseas cadres, and with a fleet of deep-sea freighters that maintain a flow of explosives, arms and ammunition.": LTTE & modern technology By: Thomas Homer-Dixon February 01, 2001 [5]பரணிடப்பட்டது 2007-10-07 at the வந்தவழி இயந்திரம்
tamilnation.org
"Arular, with his Kannady farm barely 20 miles from Pirabaharan's hideout, met the LTTE leader several times beginning September 1976. With his degree in engineering and newly-acquired knowledge in Lebanon, Arular passed on to Pirabaharan ideas about making explosives. In turn, Pirabaharan agreed to provide incendiary chemicals to Arular." Narayan Swamy, M. R. (2002) Tigers of Lanka: from Boys to Guerrillas, Konark Publishers; 3rd ed. ISBN 8122006310[8]
"Technology is something that resides within people’s heads; it is to do with acquired human abilities, knowledge. Information Technology, for example, is not something that
is contained on microelectronic chips and inside rectangular boxes called computers; it is contained in the heads of people who know how to design and fabricate these chips and program these computers. If you have the people but not the hardware, they will acquire it from somewhere, or improvise, or put together a rudimentary program that runs even on a discarded old 8-bit Apple. Then they will rapidly sophisticate their crude
contraptions because they know how to do so. Know is the all-important word. Knowledge is the supreme form of capital and somewhere I found the quotation: "Learning is the only sustainable competitive advantage". Learning in the environment of today’s knowledge explosion requires global access. Obviously, the LTTE’s deep links with the Tamil diaspora ensures funding, but it provides something far more important, access to skills and technology." Human-capital in knowledge-based societies Technology and the LTTE by Kumar David Sunday Island 1 April 2007. [7]
telegraph.co.uk
"The Tigers invented and developed the suicide jacket - a bomb kit worn as a waistcoat next to the skin with detonator and plastic explosives secreted in the pockets." The terrorists who taught the world - Telegraph, UK, 26/01/2002 [1][தொடர்பிழந்த இணைப்பு]
tothecenter.com
"The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is fast developing a mini submarine for gun running and drug smuggling, Sri Lankan and Indian intelligence services believe." - TAMIL TIGERS ARE DEVELOPING A MINI SUBMARINE FOR GUN RUNNING, DRUG SMUGGLING AND PIRACY - By Walter Jayawardhana [2]
tribuneindia.com
"In 1992, Indian security agencies seized a submarine assembled by Shankar, a key LTTE politburo member, who was once an aeronautical engineer in Canada. It's still not known whether the submarine had ever been pressed into action. The LTTE submarine portends alarming security threats given the fact that the Tigers are master frogmen trained by Norwegian mercenaries." Extracts from "Beyond The Tigers: Tracking Rajiv Gandhi's Assassination" by Rajeev Sharma [4]
web.archive.org
"And, according to Gunaratna, among insurgency groups, it pioneered the battlefield use of off-the-shelf civilian technologies -- for example, in learning how to accurately target projectiles with Global Positioning Satellite signals. The group's leaders use satellite telephones to link up with their combatants in the field, with their overseas cadres, and with a fleet of deep-sea freighters that maintain a flow of explosives, arms and ammunition.": LTTE & modern technology By: Thomas Homer-Dixon February 01, 2001 [5]பரணிடப்பட்டது 2007-10-07 at the வந்தவழி இயந்திரம்
"Retired Sri Lankan air force wing commander C.A.O Direckze said that to maintain a handful of light aircraft, the LTTE must possess an efficient engineering facility, a limited training facility and an improvised explosive devices producing facility." SRI LANKA: 'Flying Tiger' Raids Pose Hard Questions - Analysis by Kalinga Seneviratne - END/2007 - [6]பரணிடப்பட்டது 2008-04-08 at the வந்தவழி இயந்திரம்
"The Tigers invented and developed the suicide jacket - a bomb kit worn as a waistcoat next to the skin with detonator and plastic explosives secreted in the pockets." The terrorists who taught the world - Telegraph, UK, 26/01/2002 [1][தொடர்பிழந்த இணைப்பு]
