{"id":125304,"date":"2022-05-14T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125304"},"modified":"2022-05-14T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T22:04:07","slug":"sl-denies-indian-intel-claims-of-ltte-regrouping-to-launch-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/14\/sl-denies-indian-intel-claims-of-ltte-regrouping-to-launch-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"SL denies Indian intel claims of \u2018LTTE regrouping to launch attacks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Defence on Saturday denied reports of ex-LTTE cadre regrouping to launch attacks\u201d in Sri Lanka, as reported by The Hindu, citing sources in Indian intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article is completely baseless. We have received no intelligence warning of such a security threat,\u201d a Ministry spokesman said. The report, citing Indian intelligence reports, was picked up by Sri Lankan media and widely shared on social media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lankan political leaders, too, strongly reacted to the Indian security establishment\u2019s claims. Tamil Progressive Alliance Leader and Opposition legislator from Colombo Mano Ganesan said The Hindu report on #LTTE regrouping\u201d is very disturbing in today\u2019s social context of Sri Lanka where race relations are improving\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How authentic is this news? What\u2019s the intelligence source? Is it Indian\/Foreign? #Indian Media &amp; Authorities are requested give more explanations,\u201d he said.<strong>(The Hindu)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Defence on Saturday denied reports of ex-LTTE cadre regrouping to launch attacks\u201d in Sri Lanka, as reported by The Hindu, citing sources in Indian intelligence. The article is completely baseless. We have received no intelligence warning of such a security threat,\u201d a Ministry spokesman said. The report, [&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-125304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125304","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=125304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}