By Joanna Slater and Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow Amantha Perera April 24 at 3:15 AM COLOMBO — Nine suicide bombers, including a married couple, carried out the devastating Easter attacks in Sri Lanka which killed 359 people, authorities said on Wednesday, revealing new details about the network behind the string of bombings.
Ruwan Wijewardene, the state minister for defense, told reporters that the bombers used two safe houses in Colombo and Negombo. They came from middle-class and upper-class backgrounds, he said, and some were “quite well-educated people.” One of them had studied in Britain and Australia. Wijewardene said the bombers had splintered off from the National Thowheed Jamaath, an obscure Islamist extremist group based in the eastern part of the country. The leader of the splinter group carried out the suicide attack on Colombo’s Shangri-La hotel, he said.
Spoiler: they're Muslims...shocker!...ikr...
If you rule out Bin Laden's being pegged a patsy for Cheney's ruse to provide a pathway into the ME (where the oil is ... remember, getting the oil is the long-term goal), Bin Laden was from a respectable family, affluent, genius IQ. Only the stupid and poor can be terrorists?
WAPO you forgot to mention... They are all radical ISLAMIST with ties to ISIS.
The perpetrators were Muslims*