{"id":6610,"date":"2019-06-15T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T09:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2019-06-15T09:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T09:23:45","slug":"sri-lanka-insists-isis-not-directly-linked-to-easter-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-insists-isis-not-directly-linked-to-easter-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka insists ISIS not directly linked to Easter attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka has insisted that the Islamic State (IS) or ISIS were not directly involved in the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A Sri Lanka intelligence officer who wished to remain anonymous, told local journalists that investigations had confirmed that the Easter Sunday attacks were carried out purely by a local group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The officer said that the video sent to IS on the Sri Lankan bombers which was later released to the media by IS, was sent via Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">IS leader Al Baghdadi had later claimed responsibility for the multiple suicide attacks in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However the intelligence officer insisted that the local network was not led by Al Baghdadi but may have had some form of contacts with some IS members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThey are not pure ISIS members,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The National Thowheeth Jama\u2019ath (NTJ) was accused of being involved in the deadly attacks on Easter Sunday targeting hotels and churches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">NTJ leader Zahran Hashim was among the bombers killed in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hashim had promoted the ISIS ideology through videos and other propaganda material.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has insisted that the Islamic State (IS) or ISIS were not directly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","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=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}