{"id":103806,"date":"2020-06-22T14:27:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103806"},"modified":"2020-06-22T14:27:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T21:27:30","slug":"former-minister-rauf-hakeem-attended-the-wedding-of-ibrahim-ilham-one-of-the-easter-sunday-suicide-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/22\/former-minister-rauf-hakeem-attended-the-wedding-of-ibrahim-ilham-one-of-the-easter-sunday-suicide-bombers\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Minister Rauf Hakeem attended the wedding of Ibrahim Ilham one of the Easter Sunday suicide  bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> It was revealed today at the Presidential Commission probing into the Easter Sunday Attacks, that two ministers had attended the wedding of Ibrahim Ilham, a suicide bomber on Easter Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This was through a statement from Fatima Jeffery the mother in law of Ibrahim Ilham. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d89\u0dbd\u0dca\u0dc4\u0dcf\u0db8\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dda \u0db1\u0dd0\u0db1\u0dca\u0daf\u0dab\u0dd2\u0dba \u0da2\u0db1\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2 \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0db8\u0da7 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i5KQ2LrgUvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> She testified before the commission that her youngest daughter, Fatima Jifri, married Ibrahim Ilham, a well-known businessman in Dematagoda in 2012. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> She said that she remembers that the then Minister Rauf Hakeem and another Minister had come to the wedding ceremony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nHowever, she said that she could not recall who the other minister was and that she could check with her children if specific information is required.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News It was revealed today at the Presidential Commission probing into the Easter Sunday Attacks, that two ministers had attended the wedding of Ibrahim Ilham, a suicide bomber on Easter Sunday. This was through a statement from Fatima Jeffery the mother in law of Ibrahim Ilham. She testified before the commission that her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}