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| Sunday, 11 December 2005 |
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Army restructures intelligence Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka told the Sunday Observer in an exclusive interview last Thursday that Army intelligence will be completely restructured. The objective of the restructuring is to develop a modern intelligence system that would enhance the content and quality of intelligence reports so that they will be factual, timely and effective, he said. At present field commanders do not receive adequate intelligence in time and very often it is received after incidents take place so that there is hardly any intelligence input in some operations, he confided. "We also have to find suitable new personnel to take over the positions held by leading intelligence officers and informants who were gunned down by the LTTE since the signing of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA), he added. He also stressed the need to provide intelligence personnel with adequate safety and logistics support to carry out their duties. The Sunday Observer in its weekly column 'Bulls Eye' called for a restructuring of the intelligence network a few weeks ago describing the new strategies used by the LTTE to fulfill their killing missions in Colombo and elsewhere. It forewarned the authorities about the possibility of underworld agents being used by the LTTE as accomplices and contract killers, a fact which was tragically confirmed by the death of Lt. Col. Medin at Kiribathgoda on October 30, 2005. He was the 17th Intelligence Officer to be gunned down after the CFA. It should also be recalled that most of these killings were a consequence of the tragic betrayal of intelligence officers and informants following the ill-conceived and treacherous raid on the Athurigiya Safe House by the Police in early December 2003. |
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