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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (8301)	8/29/2006 1:32:52 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 9838

U.S. Rep. Danny Davis link to Sri Lanka Doubts surface about constituency elusive By John Biemer Tribune staff reporter Published August 28, 2006 chicagotribune.com Starts off: ..."Last week's disclosure that U.S. Rep. Danny Davis visited Sri Lanka in 2005 turned a local spotlight on the island nation's recent history of violence and raised questions about why exactly he went there. The man representing Illinois' 7th Congressional District said he went to the nation south of India to see how reconstruction and aid money was being distributed after the 2004 tsunami at the behest of his constituents. But the community that prompted that weeklong trip appears to be a small one."... Includes: ..."The Tamil Tigers paid $13,150 in laundered funds for the trip Davis and an aide took to Sri Lanka in 2005,"... "Davis, a Democrat, said he was not aware of that."..."he reported that the trip was paid for by a Tamil cultural organization, the Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America. Davis has not been accused of any wrongdoing."... Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America: ..."is based out of a residence in southwest suburban Hickory Hills, which is not in Davis' district."..."the owner of the home is Vanatha J. Babu,"..."Babu gave Davis a $500 contribution April 30, 2005,"... Davis' ..."two primary contacts among local Tamils were Francis Mutha and Namasivaya Viswanathan."... Namasivaya Viswanathan: ..."FBI searched a Glendale Heights home, in Illinois' 6th Congressional District, owned by a Namasivaya Viswanathan, "..."connected with an investigation that has resulted in 11 arrests on charges of conspiring to aid the Tamil Tigers through money laundering, arms procurement and bribery of U.S. officials."... Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy: ..."Among those arrested was Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, a London physician who met with Davis as recently as Aug. 19 to discuss Sri Lankan issues,"... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08/20/06: Terrorists Pay for Junket for Democrat mypetjawa.mu.nu mypetjawa writes: ..."Whoa. The Tamil Tigers are bad hombres. It looks like a Democrat in Congress actually took a trip paid for by this terrorist organization. When we joke about Buddhist terrorists being a bit of an oxymoron it's not that there aren't Buddhist terrorists, they are just hard to find---and the Tamil Tigers are those terrorists. While the suicide mission is nothing new to the world, it may be possible to trace the modern iteration to the Tamil Tigers. So, in one sense, the Tamil Tigers actually may have inspired some of the tactics used by Islamist terrorists. "... From the Chicago Tribune: ..."Chicago congressman Danny Davis and an aide took a trip to Sri Lanka last year that was paid for by the Tamil Tigers, a group that the U.S. government has designated as a terrorist organization for its use of suicide bombers and child soldiers, law-enforcement sources said. Davis’ seven-day trip came under scrutiny this week following the arrests of 11 supporters of the organization on charges of participating in a broad conspiracy to aid the terrorist group through money laundering, arms procurement and bribery of U.S. officials."... mypetjawa writes: ...."It gets worse. Much worse. Davis admits that he knew that the group funding the trip was associated with the terrorists."... See: Terrorists Funded Democrat’s Trip texasrainmaker.com ..."Davis said he believed that the trip, from March 30 to April 5, 2005, was paid for by the Tamil federation, which in accordance with congressional ethics rules sent him a written statement of the travel expenses, more than $7,000 each for Davis and his aide, Daniel Cantrell. Davis said he knew that the group was “associated” with the Tamil Tigers but did not realize that the trip’s costs were covered with funds controlled by the rebel group."… ..."Davis said he always assumed that the organization had a connection with the Tamil Tigers. “I knew that they were associated with the Tamil Tigers, yes,” he said."... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Danny K. Davis : 7th Congressional District of Illinois house.gov ...7th District is wholly within Cook County and bordered on the east by Lake Michigan and extends to the western border of Cook County. The district is generally south of Armitage Avenue and has one arm which extends as far south as 57th Street.... Map of 7th Congressional District of Illinois nationalatlas.gov Since 1997, the State Department has included the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on its list of foreign terrorist organizations. travel.state.gov