12 Replies to “Sri Lanka jihadis, swear fealty to IS leader, before murdering hundreds in Sri-Lanka”
I love the way they always make a big deal out of whether or not they’re affiliated with well-known Jihadist groups like ISIS, al Queda, and the Taliban as if that makes any difference at all and as if there is any difference between one or the other of those groups. Listen to these chanting bastards. Gee! They sure sound like radical Muslims to me as they chant “Takfir” and answer with, “Allahu Akbar”. The more we differentiate between one group and the other and ruminate over “motive” the more we play into their hands and diffuse the enemy. They’re all the same, folks, and they all have the same motive. They’re all Muslim fanatics intent on doing the will of Allah and killing every last one of us for the crime of being not them. Perfect bastards…
Chris, I couldn’t have said it better myself..You hit the Nail square on it’s head.
It just boggles the mind that those “Intelligence” Agencies are still making excuses and distinctions.
As if it matters which Jihadi Group does the atrocities.
It’s like saying that being killed by Lung-cancer is better than being killed by Brain-cancer.
Their Insanity is on a different level altogether.
“The more we differentiate between one group and the other and ruminate over “motive” the more we play into their hands and diffuse the enemy.
Too right, chris jones! This is why I so often yowl about the Proper Naming of Things. Call the spade a fucking spade and not a damned “manual excavation utensil”. In this particular case:
The problem is Islam. The problem always has been Islam.
You both miss the main point of Islam: Sura 9:5, the Sword Verse is the Islam CORE. believe like them, or you’re a kafir, an infidel to be killed. Then through taqiyya, to ‘lie to forward Islam’ Islam deceives all kafirs into believing that killers are not “real Muslims.” Zechariah 14 spells it out anyway. If the Word is with you, you’re okay.
“You both miss the main point of Islam:
Thank you for that blinding glimpse of the obvious. You can bet the farm that I’m right thankful to miss Islam’s “main point”—as it’s a sword point and I’m still typing these words.
@ Ibn Al-Malek
Great to finally have someone at Vlad Tepes who can translate from Arabic and this is the first site which gives the subtitles to this bitches-dance. Thank you.
I heard the guy in the middle was “the brains behind the attacks”. They were seriously talking about BRAINS !!! B R A I N S !!!!!! And what’s more one of these slime apparently has done “post graduate studies” in OZ. The mind (of those who have one) just has to boggle.
BINGO ! That is where I saw the euphemism of “Brains” for what these vermin have between the ears. I am an enthusiastic follower of AmyMek’s twitter account, a rich source of information, and recommend it.
“One of the suicide bombers in the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka studied in the UK and Australia, it emerged today.
The country’s Deputy Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene did not name the terrorist, or which university or college he attended.
But he did say the attackers were all middle or upper class, well educated, from financially stable families, and that many of them had higher education.
The revelation that one of the terrorists studied in Britain sparked fears that he could have been radicalised at a university here.
Eight British nationals died when suicide bombers targeted churches and hotels, and the number of confirmed dead had risen to 359.
Security expert Professor Anthony Glees also suggested MI5 will know the identity of the bomber with the British link.
The deputy defence minister today also revealed that there were nine suicide bombers – eight men pictured swearing allegiance to ISIS and one of their wives who blew herself up when police raided her home – and said eight have been identified.
They used two safehouses to mastermind the atrocity, he added.
Mr Wijewardene said: ‘We believe one of the suicide bombers studied in the UK and then later on did his postgraduate in Australia, before coming back to settle in Sri Lanka.’
He spoke out as came as Alaina Teplitz, America’s ambassador to Sri Lanka, said America believes there are ‘ongoing terrorist plots’ in the country while warning of attacks on ‘large gatherings [and] public spaces’.
Mr Wickremesinghe has previously warned that suspects armed with explosives were still at large, while Mr Wijewardene told people to ‘remain vigilant’.
‘The investigation is still being conducted by our intelligence agencies, we have made a significant amount of arrests,’ he said.
‘We have gathered a considerable amount of information about who was involved in these atrocities and about extremist elements within this country.
‘We will make further arrests over the coming days [and] we can firmly say that within the next couple of days we will have the situation under control.’
Mr Wijewardene said that, so far, 60 people have been arrested, all of whom are Sri Lankan nationals, 39 of whom are still in custody being questioned.
He added that all suspects have some link to the attackers – who he refused to formally identify.
Mr Wijewardene also accused top intelligence officials of deliberately hiding information on the attacks, and said top security officials did not take action.
It comes after reports that Indian officials warned of a specific threat against churches in the country two hours before the first bomb blast.
Ms Teplitz said that American intelligence services were not aware of any threat beforehand, but that the FBI is now on the ground providing assistance.
Teplitz also said ‘clearly there was some failure in the system’ for Sri Lanka prior to Easter bombings.
The Prime Minister on Wednesday asked for the resignation of the country’s defence minister and chief of police over the blunders.
Security sources in India told CNN that they arrested a member of ISIS who claimed to have trained the plot mastermind, who he named as Zahran Hashim.
Mr Wijewardene said the death toll from the attacks rose to 359 overnight, 39 of whom were foreign nationals.
Of the dead foreigners, 17 have been identified and their remains handed over to their families.
Mr Wijewardene said the group used to be part of National Thowheed Jamath, who have previously been blamed for the atrocity, but splintered off as their views became more extreme.
Wijewardene described the bombers as middle to upper class men whose families were financially stable and said many of them held degrees.
The group were united in their belief that Islam should be the only religion in Sri Lanka, and that was what motivated their attack on Sunday.
He said that while the attack may have been in the making for some time, it is the belief of the security services that the Christchurch mosque attacks steered them towards attacking churches on Easter Sunday.
He also confirmed that the leader of the terror cell was among the dead, having blown himself up at the Shangri-La hotel. However, he refused to name the man.
The ringleader has previously been named by the country’s Prime Minister as Moulvi Zahran Hashim, and extremist preacher known to security services for speeches he gave online calling for all non-Muslims to be ‘eradicated’.
Mr Wijewardene also today confirmed that an explosion in Colombo earlier was a controlled blast on a motorbike near the Savoy hotel.
Mr Glees, the director the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Buckingham University, suggested the terrorist is likely to have studied at a London based university, and possibly could have completed studies in engineering or IT.
Mr Glees told MailOnline: ‘I have no doubt whatsoever that the identity of this person will very soon uncovered. Everybody leaves a trail.
‘MI5 know who this person is. They will be checking out where they studied, who they came into contact with, and crucially, who else was in their network.
‘There are a stream of Islamist terrorists who come from higher education in the UK that are graduates, who are over represented in terrorist ranks.
‘This gives you an indication of the sort of people they are, they are not homeless refugees, or unemployed, they are well educated, highly motivated, ideological fanatics, that are highly dangerous.
‘This is a very significant development. It is very likely that this person would have been radicalised in the UK, or Australia.
‘He may have had no personal contact with the fighting in ISIS in Syria or Iraq.
‘Massive warning lights have to flash here. We can’t assume this person was a jihadist from the battlefields.’
Mr Glees suggested he would have become radicalised after coming into contact with a radical preacher ‘a band of brothers or sisters’ that would have taken the form of ‘campus associations.’
He added: ‘We are likely looking at someone in the London area. This is most likely to be a London student.
‘If you are in London you are close to a radical preacher. We are not talking about a quiet backwater university here.
‘In my experience, the study of IT and engineering, are areas which traditionally attract the interest of people that have gone on to be Islamist terrorists.
‘If you want to be a jihadist, what better education could you acquire than an IT or engineering education, to make bombs?’
Mr Glees also suggested the video showing one of the terrorist walking into a church, wearing a backpack, moments before he blew himself up, did not appear to be a hardened ISIS fighter, but a student.
He said: ‘The horrific video of the man with the backpack making his way into a church to carry out a suicide bombing was a diminutive, scrawny figure, he looks like a student.
‘He is a not an IS jihadist who fought in the battlefield. He looked introverted, obsessive. But he would have been radicalised with the ISIS message.’
It has been claimed that two sons of a wealthy spice trader carried out the suicide blasts.
The Muslim brothers, Ilham Ibrahim and Inshaf , blew themselves up as guests queued for breakfast at the Shangri-La and Cinnamon Grand hotels in the capital.
They were in their late twenties and operated their own ‘family cell’, an investigation officer said yesterday as Sri Lankan police continue to probe the bombings.
The brothers had been involved in their father, Yoonus Ibrahim’s lucrative Colombo spice export business, investigators said.
A focus of the inquiry will be to find out whether there was a foreign influence in their radicalisation and how the children of such a wealthy family had become involved, an official source said.
The pair were key members of the Islamist National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) group, the official added.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the government has blamed the NTJ.
A minister said Tuesday the bombers may have struck in revenge for attacks on two New Zealand mosques last month which left 50 dead.
Investigators said it was not known whether the brothers were in contact with the other bombers.
The first wave of attacks struck during busy Easter services at churches in the cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa.
More bombs ripped through three luxury hotels in the capital city of Colombo: the Kingsbury, the Shangri La, and the Cinnamon Grand.
The group also planned another attack at a fourth hotel, but the suicide bomber either failed to detonate his device or decided against doing so, official sources said.
Police are also currently on the hunt for a van and a lorry that are believed to be carrying explosives, reports News 1st. They are also on the look out for three motorbikes, a cab and a van.
At least 39 foreign nationals were killed in the attack and over 500 wounded.
Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency and launched a desperate hunt to head off more attacks…”
Was Sri Lanka suicide bomber radicalised in BRITAIN?
Stupid question: Look, squirrel!
Wherever Pakis congregate, you’ve got radicalization. The UK, Saudi, Italy, Malaysia, the US of A.
“Pakistan” has to be understood as a collective: stitched-together tribes without boundaries that includes much of Afghanistan, parts of India and Iran. [Throw in ‘East Pakistan’, today’s Bangladesh]. Ethnic Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Baluchi, Kashmiri, [Bengali] etc. Infinite sub-groups, intensely jealous of their micro-identity, internecine warring for millennia.
At least since the Soviet invasion, Pakistan has served as magnet and hub of global, organized terrorism. However variegated, every active terrorist organization has ties to the nation’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). With some, for example the Taliban, it’s all in the family. Other tiny splinters of crazy are sure to find a congenial cave with a hole.
Bandit, pirate, this “Land of the Pure” is anything but. Yet it manages to function as a coherent entity: other nations treat it as a partner in its diplomatic, trade, and military dimensions. The ISI has operatives as professional as any in the world, notwithstanding fraternal relationships with a host of terrorist organizations.
Aspiring jihadis from all over the world (like Potus-44) used to go Pakistan to “find themselves” – soak up some charismatic imam’s aura, get tactical training, establish links with fellow-travelers back home. Nowadays, all they need to do is tap into the Paki diaspora.
Besides the familiar al-Qaeda/ISIS, search these:
Jamaat ul-Fuqra (Muslims of the Americas), Tablighi Jamaat (Kyrgyzstan), Lashkar-e-Taeba (Mumbai), Jamaat-e-Islami (MB-front, tied to Kashmir, Bangladesh, and [ woe! ] Canada).
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I love the way they always make a big deal out of whether or not they’re affiliated with well-known Jihadist groups like ISIS, al Queda, and the Taliban as if that makes any difference at all and as if there is any difference between one or the other of those groups. Listen to these chanting bastards. Gee! They sure sound like radical Muslims to me as they chant “Takfir” and answer with, “Allahu Akbar”. The more we differentiate between one group and the other and ruminate over “motive” the more we play into their hands and diffuse the enemy. They’re all the same, folks, and they all have the same motive. They’re all Muslim fanatics intent on doing the will of Allah and killing every last one of us for the crime of being not them. Perfect bastards…
Chris, I couldn’t have said it better myself..You hit the Nail square on it’s head.
It just boggles the mind that those “Intelligence” Agencies are still making excuses and distinctions.
As if it matters which Jihadi Group does the atrocities.
It’s like saying that being killed by Lung-cancer is better than being killed by Brain-cancer.
Their Insanity is on a different level altogether.
“The more we differentiate between one group and the other and ruminate over “motive” the more we play into their hands and diffuse the enemy.
Too right, chris jones! This is why I so often yowl about the Proper Naming of Things. Call the spade a fucking spade and not a damned “manual excavation utensil”. In this particular case:
The problem is Islam. The problem always has been Islam.
You both miss the main point of Islam: Sura 9:5, the Sword Verse is the Islam CORE. believe like them, or you’re a kafir, an infidel to be killed. Then through taqiyya, to ‘lie to forward Islam’ Islam deceives all kafirs into believing that killers are not “real Muslims.” Zechariah 14 spells it out anyway. If the Word is with you, you’re okay.
“You both miss the main point of Islam:
Thank you for that blinding glimpse of the obvious. You can bet the farm that I’m right thankful to miss Islam’s “main point”—as it’s a sword point and I’m still typing these words.
@ Ibn Al-Malek
Great to finally have someone at Vlad Tepes who can translate from Arabic and this is the first site which gives the subtitles to this bitches-dance. Thank you.
I heard the guy in the middle was “the brains behind the attacks”. They were seriously talking about BRAINS !!! B R A I N S !!!!!! And what’s more one of these slime apparently has done “post graduate studies” in OZ. The mind (of those who have one) just has to boggle.
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1120916229630431234
BINGO ! That is where I saw the euphemism of “Brains” for what these vermin have between the ears. I am an enthusiastic follower of AmyMek’s twitter account, a rich source of information, and recommend it.
Was Sri Lanka suicide bomber radicalised in BRITAIN? Authorities reveal terrorist studied in UK and how the ‘middle-class’ jihadists were ‘well-educated and financially independent’ (dailymail, Apr 24, 2019)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6953737/Sri-Lanka-suicide-bombers-studied-UK-says-countrys-defence-minister.html
“One of the suicide bombers in the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka studied in the UK and Australia, it emerged today.
The country’s Deputy Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene did not name the terrorist, or which university or college he attended.
But he did say the attackers were all middle or upper class, well educated, from financially stable families, and that many of them had higher education.
The revelation that one of the terrorists studied in Britain sparked fears that he could have been radicalised at a university here.
Eight British nationals died when suicide bombers targeted churches and hotels, and the number of confirmed dead had risen to 359.
Security expert Professor Anthony Glees also suggested MI5 will know the identity of the bomber with the British link.
The deputy defence minister today also revealed that there were nine suicide bombers – eight men pictured swearing allegiance to ISIS and one of their wives who blew herself up when police raided her home – and said eight have been identified.
They used two safehouses to mastermind the atrocity, he added.
Mr Wijewardene said: ‘We believe one of the suicide bombers studied in the UK and then later on did his postgraduate in Australia, before coming back to settle in Sri Lanka.’
He spoke out as came as Alaina Teplitz, America’s ambassador to Sri Lanka, said America believes there are ‘ongoing terrorist plots’ in the country while warning of attacks on ‘large gatherings [and] public spaces’.
Mr Wickremesinghe has previously warned that suspects armed with explosives were still at large, while Mr Wijewardene told people to ‘remain vigilant’.
‘The investigation is still being conducted by our intelligence agencies, we have made a significant amount of arrests,’ he said.
‘We have gathered a considerable amount of information about who was involved in these atrocities and about extremist elements within this country.
‘We will make further arrests over the coming days [and] we can firmly say that within the next couple of days we will have the situation under control.’
Mr Wijewardene said that, so far, 60 people have been arrested, all of whom are Sri Lankan nationals, 39 of whom are still in custody being questioned.
He added that all suspects have some link to the attackers – who he refused to formally identify.
Mr Wijewardene also accused top intelligence officials of deliberately hiding information on the attacks, and said top security officials did not take action.
It comes after reports that Indian officials warned of a specific threat against churches in the country two hours before the first bomb blast.
Ms Teplitz said that American intelligence services were not aware of any threat beforehand, but that the FBI is now on the ground providing assistance.
Teplitz also said ‘clearly there was some failure in the system’ for Sri Lanka prior to Easter bombings.
The Prime Minister on Wednesday asked for the resignation of the country’s defence minister and chief of police over the blunders.
Security sources in India told CNN that they arrested a member of ISIS who claimed to have trained the plot mastermind, who he named as Zahran Hashim.
Mr Wijewardene said the death toll from the attacks rose to 359 overnight, 39 of whom were foreign nationals.
Of the dead foreigners, 17 have been identified and their remains handed over to their families.
Mr Wijewardene said the group used to be part of National Thowheed Jamath, who have previously been blamed for the atrocity, but splintered off as their views became more extreme.
Wijewardene described the bombers as middle to upper class men whose families were financially stable and said many of them held degrees.
The group were united in their belief that Islam should be the only religion in Sri Lanka, and that was what motivated their attack on Sunday.
He said that while the attack may have been in the making for some time, it is the belief of the security services that the Christchurch mosque attacks steered them towards attacking churches on Easter Sunday.
He also confirmed that the leader of the terror cell was among the dead, having blown himself up at the Shangri-La hotel. However, he refused to name the man.
The ringleader has previously been named by the country’s Prime Minister as Moulvi Zahran Hashim, and extremist preacher known to security services for speeches he gave online calling for all non-Muslims to be ‘eradicated’.
Mr Wijewardene also today confirmed that an explosion in Colombo earlier was a controlled blast on a motorbike near the Savoy hotel.
Mr Glees, the director the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Buckingham University, suggested the terrorist is likely to have studied at a London based university, and possibly could have completed studies in engineering or IT.
Mr Glees told MailOnline: ‘I have no doubt whatsoever that the identity of this person will very soon uncovered. Everybody leaves a trail.
‘MI5 know who this person is. They will be checking out where they studied, who they came into contact with, and crucially, who else was in their network.
‘There are a stream of Islamist terrorists who come from higher education in the UK that are graduates, who are over represented in terrorist ranks.
‘This gives you an indication of the sort of people they are, they are not homeless refugees, or unemployed, they are well educated, highly motivated, ideological fanatics, that are highly dangerous.
‘This is a very significant development. It is very likely that this person would have been radicalised in the UK, or Australia.
‘He may have had no personal contact with the fighting in ISIS in Syria or Iraq.
‘Massive warning lights have to flash here. We can’t assume this person was a jihadist from the battlefields.’
Mr Glees suggested he would have become radicalised after coming into contact with a radical preacher ‘a band of brothers or sisters’ that would have taken the form of ‘campus associations.’
He added: ‘We are likely looking at someone in the London area. This is most likely to be a London student.
‘If you are in London you are close to a radical preacher. We are not talking about a quiet backwater university here.
‘In my experience, the study of IT and engineering, are areas which traditionally attract the interest of people that have gone on to be Islamist terrorists.
‘If you want to be a jihadist, what better education could you acquire than an IT or engineering education, to make bombs?’
Mr Glees also suggested the video showing one of the terrorist walking into a church, wearing a backpack, moments before he blew himself up, did not appear to be a hardened ISIS fighter, but a student.
He said: ‘The horrific video of the man with the backpack making his way into a church to carry out a suicide bombing was a diminutive, scrawny figure, he looks like a student.
‘He is a not an IS jihadist who fought in the battlefield. He looked introverted, obsessive. But he would have been radicalised with the ISIS message.’
It has been claimed that two sons of a wealthy spice trader carried out the suicide blasts.
The Muslim brothers, Ilham Ibrahim and Inshaf , blew themselves up as guests queued for breakfast at the Shangri-La and Cinnamon Grand hotels in the capital.
They were in their late twenties and operated their own ‘family cell’, an investigation officer said yesterday as Sri Lankan police continue to probe the bombings.
The brothers had been involved in their father, Yoonus Ibrahim’s lucrative Colombo spice export business, investigators said.
A focus of the inquiry will be to find out whether there was a foreign influence in their radicalisation and how the children of such a wealthy family had become involved, an official source said.
The pair were key members of the Islamist National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) group, the official added.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the government has blamed the NTJ.
A minister said Tuesday the bombers may have struck in revenge for attacks on two New Zealand mosques last month which left 50 dead.
Investigators said it was not known whether the brothers were in contact with the other bombers.
The first wave of attacks struck during busy Easter services at churches in the cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa.
More bombs ripped through three luxury hotels in the capital city of Colombo: the Kingsbury, the Shangri La, and the Cinnamon Grand.
The group also planned another attack at a fourth hotel, but the suicide bomber either failed to detonate his device or decided against doing so, official sources said.
Police are also currently on the hunt for a van and a lorry that are believed to be carrying explosives, reports News 1st. They are also on the look out for three motorbikes, a cab and a van.
At least 39 foreign nationals were killed in the attack and over 500 wounded.
Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency and launched a desperate hunt to head off more attacks…”
Was Sri Lanka suicide bomber radicalised in BRITAIN?
Stupid question: Look, squirrel!
Wherever Pakis congregate, you’ve got radicalization. The UK, Saudi, Italy, Malaysia, the US of A.
“Pakistan” has to be understood as a collective: stitched-together tribes without boundaries that includes much of Afghanistan, parts of India and Iran. [Throw in ‘East Pakistan’, today’s Bangladesh]. Ethnic Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Baluchi, Kashmiri, [Bengali] etc. Infinite sub-groups, intensely jealous of their micro-identity, internecine warring for millennia.
At least since the Soviet invasion, Pakistan has served as magnet and hub of global, organized terrorism. However variegated, every active terrorist organization has ties to the nation’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). With some, for example the Taliban, it’s all in the family. Other tiny splinters of crazy are sure to find a congenial cave with a hole.
Bandit, pirate, this “Land of the Pure” is anything but. Yet it manages to function as a coherent entity: other nations treat it as a partner in its diplomatic, trade, and military dimensions. The ISI has operatives as professional as any in the world, notwithstanding fraternal relationships with a host of terrorist organizations.
Aspiring jihadis from all over the world (like Potus-44) used to go Pakistan to “find themselves” – soak up some charismatic imam’s aura, get tactical training, establish links with fellow-travelers back home. Nowadays, all they need to do is tap into the Paki diaspora.
Besides the familiar al-Qaeda/ISIS, search these:
Jamaat ul-Fuqra (Muslims of the Americas), Tablighi Jamaat (Kyrgyzstan), Lashkar-e-Taeba (Mumbai), Jamaat-e-Islami (MB-front, tied to Kashmir, Bangladesh, and
[ woe! ]Canada).Welcome back, we missed you.
Thank you for your post it tells what is happening in the real world.
Thank-you!
I missed you, and the VTB gang!
Feels good to be here, at home.