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| Sri Lanka Seize Explosives from Local Islamist Radicals |
| 2019-01-19 |
| [AnNahar] Sri Lanka's police seized a haul of high explosives stashed near a wildlife sanctuary following the arrest of four men from a newly formed radical Moslem group, officials said Friday. Elite police commandos and detectives stumbled on the explosives which included some 100 detonators from a make-shift warehouse near the Wilpattu national park, police said. "Following information received by the CID (Criminal Investigations Department), they found 100 kilos (220 pounds) of high explosives and 100 detonators," police said in a statement. Official sources said the discovery was made during investigations into recent hate attacks against Buddha statues elsewhere in the country in an apparent attempt to spark tensions between majority Buddhists and minority Moslems. "The information we have at the moment is that a radicalised local group of Moslems are behind the explosives seized on Thursday," an official said asking not to be named. "We are trying to see if they had any links with Death Eaters abroad." There have been no attacks in Sri Lanka linked to foreign Islamist groups despite local media reports that a 37-year-old Sri Lankan had been killed in Syria in 2015 while fighting for Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group. The latest discovery of explosives in the north-west of the island on Thursday is one of the biggest finds since the country ended its decades-long war against Tamil separatists in 2009. There has been sporadic violence against minority Moslems, and several Buddhist monks and their followers have been jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for instigating inter-communal violence. In Sri Lanka Moslems are considered an ethnic group. Almost all Buddhists in Sri Lanka are from the majority Sinhalese community. Sri Lanka declared a 12-day nation-wide state of emergency in May last year following inter-communal riots led by Sinhalese mobs in the central district of Kandy where three people were killed and hundreds of shops and homes were destroyed. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Only took them 30 or so years to crush the Tamil tigers. Guess they figure they got time. |
| Posted by: Chris 2019-01-19 20:39 |
| #1 "Youse guys didn't learn from the crushing of the Tamil Tigers, did you?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-01-19 05:44 |