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Two Super-Rich Families Ended

artappraiser — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 21:11:13 +0000

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Two Super-Rich Families Ended Up on Opposite Sides of Easter Attacks
Two well-known, wildly successful, close-knit business families from different ends of the world intersected on Easter Sunday. In an instant, five of their children were blown to pieces in the Sri Lanka bombings, one family slaughtered by the other.

By Jeffrey Gettleman, Kai Schultz, Mujib Mashal and Russell Goldman, from Colombo, Sri Lanka

@ NYTimes.com, 3h ago

Sri Lanka: at least 15 killed

artappraiser — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 08:58:54 +0000

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Sri Lanka: at least 15 killed as police raid suspected bomber hideout

Children and suicide bombers among the dead, say authorities, following fierce gun battle in east coast town

Agence France Presse & Reuters @ TheGuardian.com, Sat 27 Apr 2019 07.21 BST

Saudi syndrome allover again?

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 02:58:14 +0000

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Saudi syndrome allover again?

NYT - Suicide Bombers Included Two Sons of Sri Lanka Spice Tycoon https://t.co/q72Z4BY08G
— Small Wars Journal (@smallwars) April 25, 2019

After #SriLankaTerrorAttack

artappraiser — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 04:20:29 +0000

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After #SriLankaTerrorAttack shops are displaying "No Entry for burga" in many public places. pic.twitter.com/kjO1SxV4b0
— Subash (@swamisaranamm) April 23, 2019

Robin Wright @ NewYorker.com:

artappraiser — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 02:27:51 +0000

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Robin Wright @ NewYorker.com: ISIS Still Has Global Reach, Despite the Caliphate’s Collapse April 23, 8:50 pm

The scope of the attacks in Sri Lanka reflects the ongoing danger from extremist movements, whether isis, Al Qaeda, their offshoots, or their wannabes.

Exactly a month after losing its final piece of territory, the Islamic State is giving notice that it can still surprise the world [....]

“The perpetrators of the attack that targeted nationals of the coalition states and Christians in Sri Lanka were from the ranks of the fighters of the Islamic State,” the isis news agency, Amaq, claimed in its chat rooms on Telegram, a social-media app. “Coalition” refers to an international alliance of more than seventy countries that ousted isis from its territory in the Middle East. A second isis communique included a video of eight men standing in front of the black-and-white isis flag, seven with their faces covered by black-and-white kaffiyehs, as they pledged bayat, or allegiance, to the Islamic State. The communique identified each man who targeted each site on an “infidel holiday.”

Evidence beyond the claim is far from definitive. But Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said, at a press conference, that government officials had early suspicions about ties between isis and two local Muslim extremist groups. So did U.S. counterterrorism officials. “Everyone believes there was some kind of external link because of the sophistication of the attack,” a U.S. official told me.

The scope of the attacks in Sri Lanka reflects the ongoing danger from extremist movements, whether isis, Al Qaeda, their offshoots, or their wannabes. The routing of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, in 2001, and the death of Osama bin Laden, a decade later, did not eliminate Al Qaeda. Today, the group has active branches in the Arabian peninsula and North Africa, and it controls a strategic Syrian province on the border with Turkey. In the past two years, isishas lost territory the size of Britain inside Syria and Iraq, but it still has eight official branches and more than two dozen networks regularly conducting terrorist and insurgent operations across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, according to the U.S. National Strategy for Counterterrorism [....]

Pitiful and tragic counter

artappraiser — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:01:30 +0000

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Pitiful and tragic "red flag" counter-ops in South Carolina. This is exactly the kind of tribal reaction that original Bin Laden terrorism theory hoped for (and Russian chaos plans imitated). Fox News is, of course, stoking it:

While Islamic Extremists do go around vandalizing and bombing Churches, I have a strong feeling that this one in particular was not done by Muslims. What kind of Muslim would leave out the ‘(PBUH)’ or ‘(SAWW)’ after writing the name of ‘Prophet Mohammad’!? https://t.co/NGAwLw5h4y
— Imam Mohamad Tawhidi (@Imamofpeace) April 23, 2019

Also, fundamentalists/Islamists that believe in pressuring others into Islam generally refrain from using the word “God” and refer to ‘the creator’ as “Allah.”

And after the word ‘Allah’, comes ‘(SWT)’.
— Imam Mohamad Tawhidi (@Imamofpeace) April 23, 2019

'Why Islamic terrorists

artappraiser — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:31:25 +0000

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'Why Islamic terrorists slaughtered Christians in Sri Lanka' https://t.co/4sYc3WymYA
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) April 23, 2019

Yeah, but it worries me. I

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:54:24 +0000

In reply to Yes, but after that the

Yeah, but it worries me. I see the social media angle elsewhere, but here the government did nothing, and yet fires off a response in the wrong direction once caught in a horrid embarrassment?

Yes, but after that the

ocean-kat — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 06:12:05 +0000

In reply to I dont see why this is such a

Yes, but after that the government shut down social media. Ten years ago there would have been an outcry against that censorship. Today a significant number of those who would have raged against that censorship are wondering if it might just be ok. That's a pretty interesting part of the story too.

I dont see why this is such a

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 05:26:58 +0000

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I dont see why this is such a social media thing - a hate group pulled off a coordinated attack and the government ignored warnings. It's a security failure, seems to me.