The LET, along with theHarkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM), both of them of the Afghan war vintage, was also inthe forefront in organising assistance for the Muslim separatists of SouthernPhilippines, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Dagestan. Since the early 1990s,both the organisations had been collecting funds for the Muslim separatists inthese areas, smuggling to them arms and ammunition and had even sent their owncadres to fight for the separatists.