{"id":105657,"date":"2020-08-19T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105657"},"modified":"2020-08-19T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T23:48:49","slug":"no-foreign-intelligence-alert-conveyed-to-fmr-president-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/19\/no-foreign-intelligence-alert-conveyed-to-fmr-president-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"No foreign intelligence alert conveyed to Fmr. President: Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former President Maithripala Sirisena was not informed about the foreign intelligence information with regard to possible terror attack by National Thowheed Jama&#8217;at (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim and his associates, former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director SDIG Nilantha Jayawardena today informed the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SDIG Jayawardena made this statement while responding to a question raised by a commissioner. He was also questioned about the threat assessment report prepared by the SIS prior to President Sirisena&#8217;s visit to Batticaloa on April 12, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The threat assessment report did not refer to a foreign intelligence agency on April 4, 2019 which mentioned that a group including the National Thowheed Jama&#8217;at (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim and his followers could launch a terror attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, he said that it was not mentioned in the report, as it was not something relevant to former President&#8217;s visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SDIG Jayawardena added that the SIS regularly received information with regard to certain security threats to various VVIPs served in the previous &#8216;Yahapalana&#8217; government, but most of them did not pay attention to those intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Maithripala Sirisena was not informed about the foreign intelligence information with regard to possible terror attack by National Thowheed Jama&#8217;at (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim and his associates, former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director SDIG Nilantha Jayawardena today informed the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105657","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=105657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}