Spot the difference Al Qaeda Vs LTTE

Spot the Difference …(if you can)

Spot the Difference …

• Slain leader of Al Qaeda (death: May 1, 2011)

• Terrorises USA and other Western countries (for almost a decade)

• Responsible for 9/11 and other terrorist attacks

• Slain leader of LTTE (death: May 18, 2009)

• Terrorises Sri Lanka (for almost 3 decades)

• Responsible for all the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka (masterminds Rajeev Gandhi’s bomb attack which killed the Indian Premier)

Osama Bin Laden Velupillai Prabakaran


• Gave leadership to the most ruthless terrorist organisation that the Western world has ever seen

• Adopted suicide bombings as a means of bringing destruction to many innocent civilians in Afganistan, Pakistan etc.

• Gave leadership to the most ruthless terrorist organisation in South Asia

• Introduced the suicide bombing mode as a means bring destruction to many innocent civilians in Sri Lanka

Osama Bin Laden Velupillai Prabakaran


Al Qaeda’s Child Soldiers LTTE’s Child Soldiers


Al Qaeda’s infliction of Suffering on human life

LTTE’s infliction of suffering on human life


• US Navy Seals carry out a special operation and successfully kills Osama Bin Laden in assassination style

• They are Heroes !!!

• Sri Lankan Army carries out its final offensive against the LTTE terrorists and Prabakaran is killed with the rest of his men

• They are War Criminals ... eh ???


• The Sri Lankan Army round up and Prabhakaran is killed during the final stage of the offensive against the LTTE terrorists

• Prabakaran’s face is badly disfigured

• The US Special forces track down and kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan where he was hiding (in assassination style)

• Osama’s face is badly disfigured (some news reports later claimed that this was not the face of Bin Laden)

Osama Bin Laden’s death Velupillai Prabakaran’s death


American citizens celebrate the news of the death of Bin Laden

Sri Lankan citizens celebrate the news of the death of Prabhakaran


• He provides leadership to track down and kill Osama Bin Laden (in typical assassination style)

• The Western world (including the UN) applauds his (US) efforts

• He is a Hero !!!

• He provides leadership to wipe out the LTTE terrorists ,and with it V. Prabakaran as well

• The Western world (lead by the UN) calls for war crimes investigations against him and SL military

• He is a War Criminal ... eh ???

US PresidentBarack Obama

Sri Lankan PresidentMahinda Rajapakse


• Mark Owen the Navy Seal who supposedly killed Bin Laden writes a book titled “No Easy Day” (becomes an instant best seller; celebrations galore; applauded by US and the West)

• Owen is a Hero !!!

• C.A. Chandraprema writes a book titled “Gota’s War” about Gotabhayas Rajapakse’s leadership in defeating the LTTE as the Sri Lankan Defence Secretary (accused of commercialising ‘war’)

• Rajapakse is a War Criminal ... eh ???

Defence SecretaryGotabhaya Rajapkse

Navy SealMark Owen

Why the double standard …

… UNHRC, Ms. Pillay, Mr. Moon and USA ???

First Created: May 3, 2011

Updated: March 23, 2013

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Spot the difference Al Qaeda Vs LTTE