| When customs agents questioned a carload of Sri Lankan immigrants entering the United States at the Canadian border in the summer of 2006, the men claimed they were headed to a bachelor party in Buffalo. There was no party, or even a groom. Two of the men pleaded guilty Monday.pU.S. authorities say the men were part of a secret mission to help militants locked in the bloody civil war in their homeland by buying and smuggling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of surface-to-air missiles. According to court papers, the men also wanted guns — but not just any guns./ppWe need AK-47s, but only if you have Russian-made or American-made, prosecutors allege one defendant said during a meeting with an undercover agent posing as a crooked arms dealer. Not the Chinese./ppThe videotaped sting is central to an unusual case against four alleged agents of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers — a Sri Lankan rebel force the State Department calls a terrorist organization./p |
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