US Ambassador in Colombo Patricia Butenis in her cable January 22, 2010 said that if then Opposition Leader Sarath Fonseka won the election ‘US could expect that his new government would be interested in moving forward more quickly than the Rajapaksa government’, the WikiLeaks revealed.
Information coming out of a secret State Department cable dated June 19, 2009 released by WikiLeaks indicates that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) T has established a facilitation centre in Sri Lanka and was looking at setting up a base of operations in Kerala and Tamil Nadu
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