BEYOND HEADLINES – In 1991 Victor Ostrovsky, author of By Way of Deception, told Indian Abroad news service that Mossad brought many Tamils to Israel for training in 1984 and 1985. “These groups kept coming and going. When I was in Mossad, it was part of our routine job to take them to training camps and make sure they got training worth what they paid for, no more and no less. The Singhalese paid in cash.”
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Στις 26 Απριλίου συμπληρώνονται 32 (33) χρόνια από το μεγαλύτερο πυρηνικό ατύχημα που γνώρισε ο πλανήτης, όταν τη νύχτα της 25ης προς 26η Απριλίου του 1986 και τοπική ώρα 1.23 πρωινή, ο 4ος αντιδραστήρας του πυρηνικού εργοστασίου του Τσερνομπίλ (που βρισκόταν 14,5 χιλιόμετρα βόρεια της ομώνυμης κωμόπολης των 1200 κατοίκων και απέχει μόλις 40 χιλιόμετρα βόρεια του Κιέβου, πρωτεύουσας της Ουκρανίας, τότε πόλης της πρώην Σοβιετικής Ένωσης) εξερράγη, εκκλείοντας κατά αντικειμενικές εκτιμήσεις ραδιενεργά ραδιονουκλεΐδια δυνάμεως 200 εκατομμυρίων Κιουρί.
By Gearóid Ó Colmáin – In 1983, the Tamil Tigers for the Liberation of Elaam (TTLE), started a civil war in Sri Lanka in order to gain independence. The Sinhalese government brought in 50 Mossad officers to train the military in counter-insurgency. In 1984 and 1985, the Israelis trained both sides in the civil war in military bases near Tel-Aviv. The Mossad used Indian intelligence, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) as an intermediary. The money was laundered through the infamous BCCI Bank – a major source of financing for international terrorism. The international drug trade was a key source of financing for a civil war in a developing country organised by world powers.