Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Serbia shuts down LTTE broadcast

After nine days of broadcasting, the Serbian government pulled the plug on a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam radio transmission.

Officials say a license granted to retransmit a broadcast from a Serbian-owned satellite to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East has been exposed as being linked to LTTE , an organization in Sri Lanka listed by the United States and most Western countries as a terrorist group, the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defense reported.

The discovery that the broadcast called the Voice of Tigers was linked to LTTE led to the immediate shutdown after nine days of transmission on a Serbian satellite. "LTTE, though influential contacts in the Middle East, obtained the services of EU TELSAT in Serbia for the transmission," the release said.

Sri Lankan officials say LTTE radio and television transmissions also have been removed recently from the U.S. INTELSAT-12 satellite and the AsiaSat, a satellite for Hong Kong.

Extracted from,
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats

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