Sri Lanka Terrorists Believed ‘Islam Can Be the Only Religion’, Most Were Highly Educated

Randolph Jason

Sri Lanka Terrorists Believed ‘Islam Can Be the Only Religion’, Most Were Highly Educated from CBN News

GNN Note – And we are suppose to invite these people to our shores; to hold positions in the highest offices of our government? Seriously? Not sure about that.

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This image posted by the Islamic State group’s Aamaq news agency on Tuesday, April 23, 2019,
purports to show Mohammed Zahran, a.k.a. Zahran Hashmi, center, the man Sri Lanka
says led the Easter attack that killed over 300 people (AP Photo)
Many of the suicide bombers who killed more than 350 people in a series of coordinated Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka were highly educated and came from well-off families, the junior defense minister said Wednesday.

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The bombers were breakaway members of a pair of obscure extremist Muslim groups, he said. Officials had earlier blamed one extremist group for the bombings, though they say the attackers may have had support from foreign militants.

“Their thinking is that Islam can be the only religion in this country,” Ruwan Wijewardene told reporters. “They are quite well-educated people,” he said, adding that at least one had a law degree and some may have studied in the UK and Australia.

The news came as leaders vowed to overhaul the country’s security apparatus after acknowledging that some intelligence units were aware of possible attacks before the Easter bombings.

U.S. Ambassador Alaina Teplitz told reporters that “clearly there was some failure in the system,” but said the U.S. had no prior knowledge of a threat before the attacks, the worst violence in the South Asian island nation since its civil war ended a decade ago.

Teplitz called that breakdown in communication “incredibly tragic.”

Government statements about the attacks have been confused and sometimes contradictory, with police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara telling reporters Wednesday that there were nine suicide bombers – two more than officials said one day earlier.

One of the additional suicide bombers was the wife of another bomber, Gunasekara said. The woman, two children and three policemen died in an explosion as authorities closed in on her late Sunday, hours after attacks were launched against three churches and three hotels. The ninth suicide bomber has not been identified, though two more suspects were killed in a later explosion on the outskirts of Colombo.

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