Terror Operations at University of Waterloo, Canada

Letter emailed to Registrar's office of the University of Waterloo, Canada on September 03, 2006

To: Registrar's office
General inquiry at registrar@admmail.uwaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo
Canada

Dear Registrar,

According to News articles on the Web, Canada's government has proscribed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) under the country’s anti-terrorist laws. Henceforth, anyone who knowingly provides financial support to the LTTE could be jailed for up to 10 years, while persons who fundraise or otherwise "facilitate" the work of the LTTE face 14 years’ imprisonment.

URL on the www.canada.com Web site: Tigers feted on campus describes how the members of the Tamil Tiger terrorists are openly collecting funds, conducting martyrdom celebrations that praise Tamil Tiger terrorist soldiers and suicide bombers, openly in the student centre of the University of Waterloo.

As a citizen on the United States, I would like to know why the University has done nothing to stop these activities that support global terrorism on campus while openly violating Canadian and international anti-terror laws.

I hope your University is not educating future terrorists.

Please forward this email to the appropriate Office at the University of Waterloo.

Sincerely,

Wick Gankanda
North Carolina, USA

CC:
RCMP
Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Reply from: Martin Van Nierop at vanierop@uwaterloo.ca
Subject: your letter
CC: lclaxton@uwaterloo.ca, klavigne@uwaterloo.ca

Dear Sir:

Re: your concerns about UW and its Tamil students. First, we are taking the matter of the arrests linked to the RCMP-FBI investigation very seriously and we are cooperating with authorities in all ways that are appropriate.
Second, the university itself is taking three steps to ensure that proper controls are in place: 1) a forensic audit by a national accounting firm of all accounts involving the Tamil students club; 2) a complete review of foreign job placements for our co-op system; and 3) a high-level task group assigned to oversee the audit and review. We will make findings public when they are complete.

Sincerely,
Martin Van Nierop
Director, CPA
Martin Van Nierop
Director, Communications & Public Affairs
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4881

Reference:
Tigers feted on campus, published at nationalpost at canada.com

I quote from the report:
"Suresh Sriskandarajah, a 26-year-old electrical engineering graduate among those arrested, completed a co-op term in Tiger-controlled areas of Sri Lanka ... Mr. Sriskandarajah was doing the co-op on behalf of a group that appears to have been created by Mr. Sriskandarajah himself."