Mahathir confirms asking Muhyiddin to drop LTTE from terror list

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Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has confirmed writing a letter to then-home minister Muhyiddin Yassin asking for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to no longer be classified as a terrorist group. However, he denied that the letter, which surfaced over the weekend, meant he supported the LTTE. "I don't support the LTTE [...] The problem occurred because of Sri Lanka, not us. There is no need for us to take action like that (blacklisting) unless they do bad things in Malaysia. "Maybe they collected funds, but they did that before too," he said at a press conference in Putrajaya. In the letter to Muhyididn penned on Feb 12, Mahathir said he did not see any reason for the LTTE to remain classified as a terrorist organisation when Sri Lanka no longer did so. Last year 12 people including two DAP assemblypersons were detained for alleged links to th…