{"id":6085,"date":"2019-04-22T07:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2019-04-22T07:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:25:49","slug":"sri-lankas-state-intelligence-service-in-memo-dated-april-11th-warned-that-suicide-attacks-were-being-planned-by-mohomad-saharan-the-leader-of-nations-thawahid-jaman-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lankas-state-intelligence-service-in-memo-dated-april-11th-warned-that-suicide-attacks-were-being-planned-by-mohomad-saharan-the-leader-of-nations-thawahid-jaman-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s State Intelligence Service in Memo dated April 11th warned that suicide attacks were being planned by Mohomad Saharan the leader of \u201cNations Thawahid Jaman\u201d reveals Cabinet Minister Harin Fernando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Before the blasts in Colombo and other towns in Sri Lanka on Sunday, a memo warned of a potential attack and requested heightened security, a police source told CNN.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">State Intelligence service had said in the memo that information had been received regarding an alleged plan of suicidal attack by the leader of \u2018 Nations Thawahid Jaman\u201d Mohomad Saharan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The memo was dated April 11 and was signed by Sri Lanka\u2019s Deputy Inspector General of police. Priyalal Dissanayake<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lankan Minister of Telecommunication Harin Fernando tweeted a picture of the memo on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cSome 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 needs to be taken as to why this warning was ignored. I was in Badulla last night,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CNN obtained a copy of the memo. Here\u2019s what it says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>April 11, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Director\/ Ministerial Security Division<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Director\/ Judicial security division<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Director\/ Retired presidents security Division<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Acting Director\/ Diplomatic security Division<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Acting Director\/ Retired presidents security Division<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>INFORMATION OF AN ALLEGED PLAN ATTACK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Reference to the letter of the defence ministry with regard to the above and the statement of IGP dated 2019.04.09 ref : STAFF05\/IGP\/PS\/OUT\/2860\/19,<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify\" start=\"2\">\n<li>We would like to draw your special attention to the a page no 2 to 4 of the statement of the State Intelligence service stating that information has been received regarding an alleged plan of suicidal attack by the leader of \u2018 Nations Thawahid Jaman \u2018 Mohomad Saharan .<\/li>\n<li>According to information of that statement, would like you to give special attention and inform your staff to provide special security measures to the areas covered by your division.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Priyalal Dissanayake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Deputy Inspector General of Police<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Courtesy: NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the blasts in Colombo and other towns in Sri Lanka on Sunday, a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}