Sri Lankan intelligence has named the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday attacks as Moulvi Zahran Hashim, an extremist local cleric who incited his followers to violence with fiery sermons on his social media channels.
The revelation comes after senior government officials accused the National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) a little-known group promoting Islamist terrorist ideology, as the perpetrators of the horrific suicide bombings which have now killed 310 people, including eight British citizens.
I see the news is now stating that ISIS have claimed responsibility...………….
ISIS would claim responsibility if Juju farted or if Zuma opens his mouth.
Whenever something bad happens, they tend to claim responsibility.
The irony is Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was once one of the most peaceful outposts of the British Empire where the peasants grew rice, the tea planters produced the best tea in the world and there were rubber plantations. I knew an old tea planter there that told me there he never felt safer and although he was never wealthy the life was pleasant.
It's being reported that there were nine suicide bombers, all of them had good academic qualifications, two brothers had a billionaire father, clearly, education has no influence on the loonies.
I find this surprising...
Authorities also ignored warnings from the country's Muslim leaders in January, about an extremist cleric who is believed to have planned the Easter Sunday attacks.
The one guy strokes a little girl on the head not long before he proceeds to blow himself up
The other footage shows the people sitting down for breakfast in the one hotel and the suicide bomber walks in and very.... very... nervously walks around before detonating
All of them were wealthy individuals, and some studied in the UK and Australia
The one guys had a mansion, and when the police got to his mansion, his pregnant wife detonated a bomb.... killing her, the kids, and 3 policeman
Sick people indeed......