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Shangri-La suicide bomber identified

The police today informed Colombo Chef Magistrate’s Court that the suicide bomber of the Shangri-La hotel had been identified as Insan Seelavan and owned a factory in Avissawella- Wellampitiya road.

Nine employees of the said factory were arrested by the Wellampitiya Police and were remanded till May 6 after being produced in the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court.

The Police also informed the court that the suicide bomber was suspected to have links with other suicide killers died in the Dematagoda blast.

Source: http://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news ... 108-165730

Suicide bomber previously arrested for vandalism: Kabir

One of the suicide bombers who blew himself up in an attack last Sunday had been a suspect who was arrested a few months ago in connection with an incident in Mawanella in which Buddha statues were damaged, Highways Minister Kabir Hashim said at a press conference held today.

“One of my security officers was attacked in the incident. A few suspects were arrested and some of them were released later. It was found that one of them had been the suicide bomber of an attack that took place last Sunday. I am in the process of receiving more information on this,” he said.

Minister Harin Fernando today tweeted the image of an internal memo and report by the police intelligence of a terror attack to be carried out by an organisation called National Thawheed Jamath.

“Some intelligence officers were aware of this incidence. Therefore there was a delay in action. What my father heard was also from an intelligence officer. Serious action need to be taken as to why this warning was ignored. I was in Badulla last night,” the minister tweeted.

The letter signed by the DIG and dated on April 11 was addressed to a number of key officials in the security services including the Directors of the Ministerial Security Division (MSD), Former Presidents’ Security Division and the Ambassadors Security Division.

The letter titled “Information of an alleged plan attack” said the state intelligence services had received information from a foreign intelligence service to the effect that National Thowheed Jamath Leader Mohammed Zahran was about to launch a suicide bomb attack in Sri Lanka targeting famous catholic churches and the Indian High Commission.

In the letter, the DIG requested the concerned authorities to pay attention to the information and to beef up the security provided to VIP personnel and to the locations.

EAGLEMUT wrote:I'm calling dibs on @easterworsher9

Mr_Bramboy wrote:

Imagine this headline for a change. Christianity is the most persecuted religion worldwide measured by the corpses (the ultimate measurement of religious persecution). Islamaphobia is a myth and a drop in the bucket compared to deaths of people who were killed because they believed Christ was their lord and savior. There is currently an attempt to destroy western civilization by corrupt leaders in various countries and leftist media. Western civilization was built on the values of Christianity and for the most part by White Europeans. That's why there is nonstop hate for white people and Christianity. They are trying to dehumanize these people. They can't even say the word Christian or Catholic. They do this on purpose. MAGA!

Mr_Bramboy wrote:Should we start calling Muslims Ramadan worshippers in the meantime?

fightinfrenchman wrote:Disgusting! The state run media that is controlled by the notoriously pro-Muslim Trump administration is doing it too!

Dolan wrote:Good find.

However, it's not the same as when the same politicians have a different attitude to different kinds of worshippers (as I've shown with Obama and H Clinton). That's simply hypocrisy. They built their careers on commiserating with every minority of the world and they find it awkward to commiserate with Christians, for some reason. They feel the need to call them "Eastern worshippers". It's really telling. It's like they find it embarrassing for them to commiserate with people of their own majority culture. They're almost ashamed to do that.

"How could I do that? I'm not getting any brownie points from the media if I do that!" - is what they think.

n0el wrote:
i find that ridiculous considering they are both Christians.

Dolan wrote:Good find.

However, it's not the same as when the same politicians have a different attitude to different kinds of worshippers (as I've shown with Obama and H Clinton). That's simply hypocrisy. They built their careers on commiserating with every minority of the world and they find it awkward to commiserate with Christians, for some reason. They feel the need to call them "Eastern worshippers". It's really telling. It's like they find it embarrassing for them to commiserate with people of their own majority culture. They're almost ashamed to do that.

"How could I do that? I'm not getting any brownie points from the media if I do that!" - is what they think.

Jam wrote:Of these only one is expressing sympathy for an attack.

Clinton has no tweets using the word christian, but has many mentioning the word muslim: https://twitter.com/search?q=muslim%20f ... n&src=typd

Of there only one is expressing sympathy for an attack. The rest are all from the 2016 election campaign and are a response to Trump's anti-muslim rhetoric. Nothing wrong with that.