-- OTTAWA -- "It is now clear that it is a Tamil Tiger owned and operated ship," said Gunaratna, who heads Singapore's International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research.Oh man... if only we could have seen that coming.
The Sri Lankan native has authored several books on the country's civil war that ended in May, with government troops finally defeating the LTTE.
"Certainly, not all ships that are transporting people are managed by terrorists, but in the case of the Ocean Lady, it is a Tamil Tiger ship that had been used in the past to smuggle weapons from North Korea to Sri Lanka," said Gunaratna.
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