Sri Lanka’s president orders two top national security officials to step down after the Easter attacks that killed 359

By Joanna Slater and Joanna Slater Foreign correspondent covering South Asia Email Bio Follow Amantha Perera April 24 at 6:06 AM BREAKING: President Maithripala Sirisena has asked for the resignations of the country’s police chief and defense secretary as furor grows over the government’s handling of advance intelligence related to the 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 split 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.

Inside help? Warnings ignored question military guy in middle with guilty look just sayin

I thought Isis was defeated?

Is it hard for WP fake news to say this is Islamic terrorism 🤔 You are evil and disgusting.

Jihadi was trying to take over the Country. If another set of bombs went off they would of had a chance.

This news upsets the Washington Post... Aloha Snackbar

The perpetrators were Muslim*

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Sri Lanka reveals identities of suicide bombers behind Easter massacresThe perpetrators of the attacks were well educated and from affluent homes, say officials. The perpetrators were Muslims* WAPO you forgot to mention... They are all radical ISLAMIST with ties to ISIS. 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?
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