Courtesy Adaderana It is revealed that Zahran Hashim has attempted to bribe several lawyers for Rs 2 million, to solicit them to bail out the suspects arrested over vandalism of Buddhist statues in Mawanella and nearby areas. The National Thowheed Jama’ath leader has reportedly given the said amount of money to Maulvi Rashid Mohamed Ibrahim […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s security forces have arrested two individuals who believed to be close associates of terrorist leader Zahran Hashim, the ringleader of the Easter Sunday attackers. Police said that the suspects were arrested at Hingula in Mawanella during a secret operation jointly carried out by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) and the Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana One of the five suspects, who were arrested in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for allegedly having strong links to the terrorist group that carried out the coordinated attacks on Easter Sunday, is also in connection with the murders of two police constables at Vavunativu, the Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara said. He stated […]

Courtesy Adaderana Seventy-seven suspects involved in the Easter Sunday attacks are currently held in the custody of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), says Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara. He added that 25 others are being held in the custody of the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID).

මව්බිම දැන් බොදුබල සේනාවට සම්බන්ධ ලිපි ලේඛන සහ පසුගිය දිනවල ලංකාවේ සිදුවුණු බෝම්බ පිපිරීම් පිළිබඳව ජනතාව දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා යොදාගත් බවට විශ්වාස කළ හැකි මුද්‍රණ කඩදාසි ළඟ තබාගෙන සිටියේ යැයි කියන සිද්ධියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් චෝදනා ලැබ අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන රඳවාගෙන සිටි මවුලවිතුමකු 13 දක්වා රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කිරීමට මීගමුව ප්‍රධාන මහෙස්ත්‍රාත් රජින්ද්‍රා ජයසූරිය මහත්මිය පෙරේදා (12දා) නියෝග කළාය. […]

මව්බිම දැන් සමාජ ජාල ඔස්සේ නිරුවත් ඡායාරූප ප්‍රචාරය කරන බවට පවසමින් පෞද්ගලික අධ්‍යාපන ආයතනයක ඉගෙනුම ලබන සිංහල තරුණියන් බියගන්වා බෞද්ධ ආගමෙන් ඉස්ලාම් ආගමට හරවා ගන්නා ශ්‍රී  ලංකාවේ ප්‍රමුඛතම පෞද්ගලික අධ්‍යාපන ආයතනයක දේශකයකු පිළිබඳව තොරතුරු වාර්තා වේ. ඔහු මේ වනවිටත් සිංහල තරුණියන් දෙදෙනකු බෞද්ධ ආගමෙන් ඉස්ලාම් ආගමට හරවාගෙන ඇති අතර මුස්ලිම් ආගමට හරවා ගැනීමෙන් පසු ඔවුන් […]

Courtesy The New Indian Express A key member in the busted module was Facebook friend of Hashim and had been following his speeches online for the past two years. KOCHI/COIMBATORE: The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday registered a case against six alleged members of an Islamic State module, which was allegedly planning terrorist attacks in […]

Courtesy The Hindu One of the three cases, where the name of Zahran Hashim first emerged, was registered in October 2018, pertaining to a criminal conspiracy to kill some Hindu leaders of Coimbatore”, the NIA said. Zahran Hashim, the Sri Lankan mastermind of the April 21 Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, has emerged as a […]

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | LAKSHMI L LUND Meanwhile, a special NIA court in Kochi remanded the prime accused Mohammed Azharudden for 14 days. COIMBATORE: A case under sections 18, 38, 39 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 was registered against Mohammed Hussain and A. Shahjahan of Ukkadam and Sheik Safiullah of Karambakkudi at the D3 Podanur police […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Hisbullah at the PSC (pic by Jude Denzil Pathiraja) Former Governor of the Eastern province, M. L. A. M. Hisbullah, yesterday, told the parliamentary select committee (PSC) probing the Easter Sunday carnage that National Thowheed Jamaath leader Zahran Hashim, who masterminded the April 21 suicide bombings, had supported common […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Governor M. L.A.M. Hizbullah stated that he has no connection with Zahran Hashim – the alleged ringleader behind the Easter Sunday attacks – and that Zahran Hashim had only worked to ‘destroy’ him. Testifying before the Special Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to look into the Easter Sunday attacks he stated that he […]

Courtesy Adaderana Ada Derana has received a video of a secretive meeting held between Zahran Hashim and several members of the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), the alleged ringleader behind the Easter Sunday attacks. The conversation between the members of the meeting indicated that the meeting was held regarding a disagreement over a lecture made by […]

Courtesy Adaderana Secretary to the Ministry of Public Administration J.J. Rathnasiri says that he has not received any complaint or report stating that Muslim women were inconvenienced owing to the Circular issued on the dress code of public servants. The Circular in question had instructed the male public servants to wear the National dress or […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror All Ceylon Jammiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) head Mufthi Mohammed Rizwi who testified before the select committee looking into the Easter Sunday attacks yesterday said he had warned the defence authorities on the National Thawheed Jama’ath(NTJ) in November 2012. He also said he handed over some photographs to former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India raided seven locations in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore on Wednesday over a suspected link between an Islamic State (IS) module in the city and the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka that killed over 250 people, India Today reported. The NIA said that the officials are […]

අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ සතොස ආයතනයේ කීර්තිනාමයට හානි කළේ තමා ද එසේ නැතහොත් සතොස සිය පාලනය යටතේ තිබියදී එහි ගබඩා තුළින් කුඩු තොග හමුවන තත්වයකට පත් කළ රිෂාඞ් බදියුදීන් හිටපු ඇමතිවරයාදැයි ප්‍රශ්න කරන ජානිපෙ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා, තමාට පැවරූ නඩුවේදී රිෂාඞ්ගේ සියලු සතොස දූෂණ අක්‍රමිකතා පෙන්වා දෙන තෙක් එහි වාහන වහාබ්වාදී අන්තවාදීන් භාවිත කළ බව […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today India has provided Sri Lanka phone numbers of five Sri Lankans who were suspected to be linked to Islamic State (IS). The Indian Express reported that India has also shared call logs and details of some phone calls which happened between some Indians and two Sri Lankan families who were linked to […]

Courtesy Adaderana The committee set up in the Police Head Quarters to receive complaints against Rishad Bathiudeen and M.L.A.M. Hizbullah and Azath Salley has received 21 complaints by 3 pm this evening (12). Reportedly, 11 of these complaints are against the former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen. On June 4th, a three-member committee comprising of three senior […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Western Province Governor Azath Salley claims that terrorist leader Zahran Hashim’s group torched 120 houses belonging to traditional Muslims in Kattankudy in the Eastern Province in 2017, however the police did nothing regarding that. He said that the people living in the area took to the streets and protested demanding the arrest […]

Sri Lanka News International Terrorist Analyst Prof. Rohan Gunaratne says that three extremist terrorist groups were active in Sri Lanka. He made these comments addressing a seminar on ISIS terrorism in Colombo. He further said that suicide terrorists believe in five main objectives to become a suicide bomber. They are; 1. That they will be […]

By Ranmini Gunasekara and Thameenah Razeek Courtesy Ceylon Today The tussle between the Executive and the Parliament should come to a stop, as this can lead to another incident such as that of 21/4, said Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Professor G.L Peiris yesterday (10). He said this at a Media conference held […]

lanka C news දළදා මාලිගාවට ප්‍රහාරයක් එල්ල වේ යැයි අවිනිශ්චිතතාවයක් ඇති බව මල්වතු පාර්ශවයේ අනුනායක පූජ්‍ය නියංගොඩ විජිතසිරි හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. දළදා පෙරහරේ දී යමක් සිදු වේයැයි අවිනිශ්චිතතාවයක් පැහැදිලිව තිබෙන බවද උන්වහන්සේ පවසති. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කටයුතු කිරීමට මුහුණ දිය යුතු ආයතන ඇති බව ද මහජනතාවගේ සෝදිසි කණ්ඩායම් අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය බව ද අනුනාහිමියන් කීහ. ඒ ගැන කිසිදු […]

by Whitney Webb  Courtesy  mintpressnews.com New evidence suggests that the government of Saudi Arabia not only had foreknowledge of the brutal bombings (and did nothing to stop them) but may have played a more active and direct role in the bloodshed COLOMBO, SRI LANKA — A leaked Saudi diplomatic memo obtained by Lebanese outlet Alahed News claims that […]

Courtesy MiddleEast Online The fact a Christchurch-Colombo connection was made by a Sri Lankan government minister raises a terrible prospect. After the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, former CIA Director Michael Morell offered a dismal assessment of the state of the world. There are, he said, at least triple the number of Islamist extremists […]

SHAMILA CHAUDHARY Courtesy The American Prospect After the Easter attacks in Colombo, the U.S. must address the growing terrorism threat in South Asia. Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo Sri Lankan army soldiers patrol a muslim neighborhood during a cordon and search operation in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Security measures have been increased in the country after more than […]

Courtesy Adaderana CCTV footage of the Easter Province Governor M. L. A. M. Hizbullah meeting several persons who could be identified as Saudi Arabian nationals at a hotel in Pasikudah has been uncovered. The CCTV footage shows Governor Hizbullah arriving at the particular hotel on the 22nd April 2019, a day after the Easter Sunday […]

Courtesy Adaderana A person has been arrested in Dehiwala over assisting the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) organization, stated the Police Media Spokesperson. Accordingly, a 53-year-old Communications Engineer named Mohamed Zaheen Nasurdeen has been arrested in this manner. The arrest has been made at a house on Kawudana Road, Dehiwala, stated the Spokesperson. Reportedly, He has […]

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By: Brian M. Perkins Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 17 Issue: 11 Aside from a branch of fighters in the restive region of Jammu and Kashmir, India has largely been spared violence at the hands of fighters belonging to, or aligned with, Islamic State (IS). Similarly, many of the once potent terrorist groups operating in India have […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police have recovered the laptop computer suspected to have been used by Zahran Hashim, the alleged mastermind behind the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka. Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara said that the laptop was found in the Palamunai Lagoon in Akkaraipattu. Based on information received by the State Intelligence Service’s Ampara […]