This is an "enemy of my enemy" kind of thing.
Not at all... they are an anti-Buddhist group, an anti_India group- "Hindu-minority" in name only marxist pirate drug-smuggling bunch with ties to alQaeda.
1980s : () Also, while allied with the Pakistani government in the late 1980s and early 1990s the LTTE smuggled weapons from Pakistan-based Islamists to their counterparts in the Philippines. (excerpt) ----LTTE & al-Qaeda: An Assessment By Aaron Mannes Link march 2007 5 posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 1:17:21 AM by earmarksrus | To 3
1993 : () : () the LTTE provided forged passports for Ramzi Yousef (specialists close to the WTC 1 trials dispute this assertion). ----LTTE & al-Qaeda: An Assessment By Aaron Mannes Link march 2007 5 posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 1:17:21 AM by earmarksrus | To 3