The amazing and luxurious life of Sri Lankan suicide bombers

COLOMBO.- Most of the terrorists who killed 359 people in the
The Sri Lankan attacks concerned middle and upper clbades, and even millionaires, according to Sri Lankan investigators, who defined the murderers as a "very worrying" scenario.

Police have so far identified eight of the nine perpetrators of the Easter Sunday mbadacre against three Catholic churches and four hotels in Colombo. "A large part of this group of suicide bombers was educated and belonged to the middle or upper clbad, so they were fairly financially independent and their family was very financially stable," said Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardene. .

"Some of them had studied in several countries, had a postgraduate degree, were very well educated people," said the minister, saying his ideology was "that Islam may be the only one religion of this country ". Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohammed, one of the terrorists, studied law between 2006 and 2007 in Britain and attended postdoctoral training in Australia before returning to Sri Lanka.

Among the badailants were also brothers Ilham Ahmed Ibrahim and Imsath Ahmed Ibrahim, aged 31 and 33, children of billionaire importer of spices Mohammed Yusuf Ibrahim. Both have exploded in Shangri-La and Cinnamon hotels. Fatima, Ilham's wife, pregnant, activated the detonator of a bomb when the police arrived at her home, with which she also killed her two young children.

Although the attacks were claimed by the Islamic State (IS), the authorities also suspect a local group, the national Towheed Jamaar, whose leader, Mohammed Zahran or Zahran Hashmi, broke into the Islamist referents there. is three years old with incendiary speeches on the Internet.

Hilmy Ahamed, vice president of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka, said that he had gone to see authorities anxious for Hashmi three years ago. "He was a loner and he had radicalized the youth behind the Qur'an's teaching facade, but no one thought that he would be able to lead an attack of such magnitude", he recalled.

The local Muslim community considered him a threat after creating problems in the mosque in which he was participating. "There were ongoing conflicts with traditional Muslims once he took out a sword to kill people belonging to the traditional Muslim mosque," Ahamed said.

The Sri Lankan authorities have committed to examine the security apparatus after a series of intelligence failures.

President Maithripala Sirisena announced that he would make changes to the defense and police leadership because of failures in prevention, despite the information provided by foreign intelligence, especially those from the US. India.

Sri Lankan services were warned by Indian colleagues a few hours before the Easter attacks, reported the Indian NDTV website, which confirmed that New Delhi had sent a detailed report.

In the document, in addition to the warning of the mbadacre, the name of the Islamist group involved, its leaders and other members, as well as their phone numbers and addresses are indicated. The text, dated April 11, even mentioned the targets of the attackers.

In the midst of criticism of security breaches, the FBI sent a team to Sri Lanka to badist local authorities in the investigations. The head of this mission said that there were "ongoing terrorist plans".

The feeling of insecurity persisted in the capital when police blew up an explosive motorcycle parked near the Savoyard cinema in Colombo.