Information About Incident 42027-80782-201480 in Kandy Sri Lanka

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The two convicts, both Canadian Tamils, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in an undercover sting operation when they attempted to purchase Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs), missile launchers, and hundreds of AK-47 automatic rifles at Long Island in New York on August 19, 2006.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Long Island New York
• Matched District: Kandy
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI )
• Subject: The two convicts , both Canadian Tamils ,

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Colombo Page reports that a federal court in the United States on January 22 sentenced two persons, identified as Sathajhan Sarachandran (30), and Nadarasa Yogarasa (55), to 26 and 14 years of imprisonment respectively, in connection with their efforts to purchase USD one million worth of high-powered weaponry for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a designated foreign terrorist organization in the US. The two convicts, both Canadian Tamils, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in an undercover sting operation when they attempted to purchase Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs), missile launchers, and hundreds of AK-47 automatic rifles at Long Island in New York on August 19, 2006.

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