{"id":99561,"date":"2020-03-03T18:19:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T01:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99561"},"modified":"2020-03-03T18:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T01:19:41","slug":"islamic-terrorists-attack-satp-south-asia-intelligence-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/03\/islamic-terrorists-attack-satp-south-asia-intelligence-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic terrorist attack &#8212;SATP &#8211; SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Giriraj Bhattacharjee Research Associate,\u00a0Institute for Conflict Management <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>On February 22, 2020, in response to reports of an attempted terror attack,\nthe Maldives Police raided three houses on the Naifaru island of Lhaviyani\nAtoll. According to the Police, the residences were of three individuals\naccused of planning to set off an explosive device on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 13, 2020, the Maldives Police arrested an Islamist extremist\nfrom an undisclosed location for his suspected role in a February 4, 2020,\nstabbing incident. Earlier, on February 6, 2020, six extremists were arrested\nin the same case from an undisclosed locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Significantly, on February 4, 2020, Islamist extremists, suspected to be\ninspired by the Islamic State (IS, <em>aka<\/em> Daesh), stabbed and injured three\nforeign nationals \u2013 two Chinese and one German \u2013 near Hulhumale Redbull Park\nFutsal Ground in the Hulhumale city of Kaffu Atoll. In a video posted on <em>Telegram<\/em>\nchannel <em>Al-Mustaqim Media<\/em>,some people speaking in <em>Dhivehi<\/em>\n(the native language of the Maldives), claimed responsibility for the attack.\nThey alleged that the Maldivian Government was being run by infidels and warned\nof more attacks in the future. Police are probing the authenticity of the\nvideo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last attack by Islamist radicals was reported in December 2019 (date not\navailable), when a Turkish national was stabbed in Hulhumale city. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giriraj Bhattacharjee Research Associate,\u00a0Institute for Conflict Management On February 22, 2020, in response to reports of an attempted terror attack, the Maldives Police raided three houses on the Naifaru island of Lhaviyani Atoll. According to the Police, the residences were of three individuals accused of planning to set off an explosive device on the island. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99561","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=99561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}