Waterloo Suresh had plans to make submarines and warships for LTTE

LTTE front man Suresh Sriskandarajah, also known as Waterloo Suresh, conspired to purchase about US$ 22,000 worth of submarine and warship design software from a British company, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has revealed.

The FBI said that according to this company's website, it was incorporated "under an initiative from UK Central Government and the UK Ministry of Defence" and its "primary purpose was to enhance and make commercially available a (60 million Sterling Pound) MoD (Ministry of Defence) development of Warship and Submarine design and analysis software."

Based on the purchase order attached to an e-mail sent by Sriskandarajah who lives in Canada, the FBI said what he had arranged to purchase included a "Solid Modeller" that, according to the company's website "enables the designer to create a solid model of a marine vehicle." This, according to the FBI is a programme that "allows the designer to assess the stability of a submarine" and other programmes that enable a designer to

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