{"id":6915,"date":"2019-07-25T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6915"},"modified":"2019-07-25T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:09:54","slug":"most-stf-commandos-in-colombo-protecting-three-vvips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/most-stf-commandos-in-colombo-protecting-three-vvips\/","title":{"rendered":"Most STF commandos in Colombo protecting three VVIPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Most Special Task Force commandos based in Colombo have been deployed to protect three VVIPs, it was revealed at the Parliament Select Committee hearing on the Easter Sunday attacks today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Responding to a questioned posed by former Army Commander, Parliamentarian Sarath Fonseka, Commandant of the Special Task Force (STF) Senior DIG M.R. Latiff said that there are 3137 STF commandos operating in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Of that, he said that 2245 STF commandos have been deployed to protect VVIPs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Asked if most of the 2245 STF commandos have been assigned to protect three VVIPs, DIG M.R. Latiff said yes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fonseka then questioned the use of several top commandos to protect just three VVIPs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Special Task Force commandos based in Colombo have been deployed to protect three&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6916,"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-6915","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\/6915","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=6915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}