{"id":110537,"date":"2021-01-09T16:49:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110537"},"modified":"2021-01-09T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T23:49:38","slug":"3-charged-in-california-with-aiding-deadly-sri-lanka-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/09\/3-charged-in-california-with-aiding-deadly-sri-lanka-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"3 charged in California with aiding deadly Sri Lanka attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Associated Press<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Three Sri Lankan men have\nbeen charged in California with aiding a terrorist group blamed for 2019 Easter\nattacks that killed 268 people in Sri Lanka, including five U.S. citizens<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022\u00a0LOS ANGELES — Three Sri Lankan men have been charged in California with aiding a terrorist group blamed for 2019\u00a0Easter<\/a>\u00a0attacks that killed 268 people in Sri Lanka, including five U.S. citizens, and injured hundreds, it was announced Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohamed\nNaufar, Mohamed Anwar Mohamed Riskan and Ahamed Milhan Hayathu Moahmed were\ncharged last month in federal court in Los Angeles with conspiracy and\nproviding and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist\norganization, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmen have no California connection, but the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force\nthat headed the investigation is based in Los Angeles, according to the U.S.\nattorney’s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nthree men were linked to a group in Sri Lanka that supported Islamic State and\nwhich is blamed for April 21, 2019, suicide bombings at Christian churches and\nhotels in three Sri Lankan cities, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naufar\nis accused of leading propaganda efforts for the group that called itself ISIS\nin Sri Lanka,\u201d recruited others to join the group and led military-type\ntraining, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riskan\nis accused of helping make explosive devices used in the attacks and Moahmed\nallegedly killed a police officer in Sri Lanka to obtain a weapon, shot a\nsuspected informant and scouted a location for a separate terrorist attack,\nprosecutors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nmen were being held in Sri Lanka and it wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether they\nhad attorneys who could speak for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\ncase clearly demonstrates that the United States will take decisive action to ensure\nterrorists face justice when they target Americans anywhere in the world,\u201d Nick\nHanna, U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said in the\nstatement. This complaint makes clear that we stand ready with these charges\nin the event the defendants attempt to evade justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Associated Press Three Sri Lankan men have been charged in California with aiding a terrorist group blamed for 2019 Easter attacks that killed 268 people in Sri Lanka, including five U.S. citizens \u2022\u00a0LOS ANGELES — Three Sri Lankan men have been charged in California with aiding a terrorist group blamed for 2019\u00a0Easter\u00a0attacks that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110537","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=110537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}