MIA accused of supporting terrorism by speaking out for Tamil Tigers

To her fans, MIA, or Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam, is rap's belle de jour who performed while nine months pregnant with hip-hop's hottest acts at the Grammys. Sheathed in a black net dress, MIA stepped out – bump first – to the strains of her single Paper Planes, which features on the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, before seguing into Jay-Z's Swagga Like Us.But for some, especially in her birth country of Sri Lanka, she is nothing less than a cheerleader for "terrorists" – se...

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