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May 2, 2007
NEWS: Brit Media Goes Crazy Over LTTE Scam
It seems that all the major
newspapers in London (including the Telegraph
and the Times), along with the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), are giving
almost unlimited publicity to the supposed
enormous credit card scam cooked up by Sri
Lankan anti-government gang the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to fund terrorist
activities. And with good reason: the scope of
the scam ring in question is almost
unprecedented. Police say that the LTTE – whose
presence and activities are banned in Britain –
are alleged to have filched millions of pounds
of Britons’ money by doctoring gas station
credit and debit card reader machines to “skim”
card numbers, in the interest of cloning the
original cards and withdrawing funds from the
victims’ accounts.
The fact that the Times – which prides itself as
one of (if not the one) most reputable papers in
the capital – has picked up the story seems to,
in and of itself, lend credence to the
conspiracy theory. Police are now combing the
records of some two hundred gas stations in
Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Norfolk,
Peterborough, Bristol, and Nottingham. The
methods used in the latest British scams are
said to be eerily similar to those used by
confirmed LTTE fraud artists in Thailand. In
turn, those methods are thought to have been
originally perfected by Al Qaeda, the notorious
Islamic terrorists.
Sri Lanka is cooperating closely with the
British investigation, mostly to make a show of
the fact that they are mortified and troubled by
the separatists’ actions. The people of Sri
Lanka are anxious to prove that they do not at
all condone such activity, say representatives
of the Sri Lankan government, and are eager to
see the matter solved, with those responsible
brought to justice.
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