Plots to assassinate VIPs:

LTTE kingpins spill the beans

Ranil Wijayapala

The Criminal Investigations Department, the Terrorist Investigation Division and intelligence sleuths investigating suicide blasts by the LTTE targeting politicians and other VIPs, which remained a mystery for years, are in the process of completing the investigations with revelations by Tiger cadres arrested after the defeat of the LTTE three months back.

CID and TID sources confirmed that the assassination attempt on the former Army Commander and the present Chief of Defence General Sarath Fonseka has already been completed as vital information regarding the internal link to the LTTE from the Army Headquarters, has been divulged by a senior Tiger cadre who had been arrested when mingling with civilians in the IDP camps.

According to the sources, it has been revealed that a cook who was serving at the Commander’s residence within the Army Headquarters and from the days Fonseka was serving as the Security Forces Commander Jaffna, had helped the LTTE to have free access to the Army Headquarters and send a female suicide cadre into the Army Headquarters.

The LTTE had made use of the passes given to the cook’s wife when he was undergoing treatment at the Army Hospital after a road accident, to have free access to the Army Headquarters and the hospital.

It has been confirmed that it was the cook who had made the final phone call to the female suicide cadre who was awaiting the motorcade of the Army Commander opposite the Army Hospital to pass the information that the Army Commander had left the Army Headquarters to reach his residence for lunch.

The CID and the TID have been able to expose these vital links after the arrest of the handler of many suicide cadres, recently within the Colombo city.

The names of those Tiger cadres cannot be divulged as it would hamper investigations.

Sources said it has been revealed that Superintendent of Police Lakshman Cooray who was arrested by the TID recently, had helped the LTTE to carry out many suicide assassination in Colombo and in the South.

Investigations have revealed that the SP had earned billions of rupees from the LTTE for taking suicide cadre’s safely to the location.

Investigations have revealed that attempts to assassinate President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Godapitiya suicide blast, Jeyaraj Fernandopulle assassination, the suicide attempts on Minister Maitripala Sirisena at Boralesgamuwa and in Polonnaruwa and Digampatana suicide blast have been supported by SP Cooray.

Following revelations made by SP Cooray and Tiger cadres who were operating in Colombo and from welfare camps had helped them completing the investigations of many other assassinations by the LTTE. These also include the assassinations of former President Ranasinghe Premadasa, former Minister Gamini Dissanayake, Major General Janaka Perera and several others.

Many investigations on the assassinations committed by the LTTE are expected to be completed within the next few weeks with the arrest of many other terror links in the South, the sources added.