India, Sri Lanka begin joint probe into Easter bombings

[Cobra Arbok]

Ghastly terror attack in Sri Lanka
India, Sri Lanka begin joint probe into Easter bombings
1 min read . Updated: 30 May 2019, 11:32 AM IST Shaswati Das

• NIA’s operations against the Coimbatore module of the Islamic State will also be of key interest
• Earlier, IS had claimed responsibility for the attacks in Sri Lanka

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A little over a month after Sri Lanka was rocked by a series of eight coordinated blasts that killed at least 253 people, India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has begun aiding the island nation in the probe into the bombings.

A person familiar with the development said the NIA was “likely to share and discuss with Sri Lankan authorities all details of its probe in India against various IS (Islamic State) modules, including evidence collected from searches in Kerala, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu. This could include pamphlets, documents, hard drives, laptops and CDs that were recovered by the agency."

At the same time, NIA’s operations against the Coimbatore module of the Islamic State (IS) will also be of key interest.

On 26 February, after months of investigation, the NIA chargesheeted six IS recruits –Mohamed Ashiq, Ismail S., Samsudeen, Mohammed Salauddin S., Jafar Shadik Ali and Shahul Hameed— in India after it was found that the arrested accused “had got radicalized on the violent extremist ideology of the proscribed terrorist organization--ISIS/Da’esh--and they had been propagating the same ideology over social media."

While the IS had claimed responsibility for the attacks in Sri Lanka, prior investigations by the NIA had revealed that the Coimbatore group had gone through videos of the National Thowheed Jamaat leader Zahran Hashim, who had been calling for the establishment of Islamic law in Sri Lanka, following which on 26 February India had passed on the intelligence to Sri Lankan authorities.

The development comes after the Kerala coast was put on high alert, late last week, following intelligence reports that boats carrying nearly 15 IS terrorists had set sail from Sri Lanka to India’s Lakshadweep slands.

There has been significant and growing movement of Islamic State cells and workers in pockets of Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Kerala and any suspicious movements are being closely monitored, according to intelligence units
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Ghastly terror attack in Sri Lanka
India, Sri Lanka begin joint probe into Easter bombings
1 min read . Updated: 30 May 2019, 11:32 AM IST Shaswati Das

• NIA’s operations against the Coimbatore module of the Islamic State will also be of key interest
• Earlier, IS had claimed responsibility for the attacks in Sri Lanka

Topics
Sri LankaSri Lanka terror attack


A little over a month after Sri Lanka was rocked by a series of eight coordinated blasts that killed at least 253 people, India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has begun aiding the island nation in the probe into the bombings.

A person familiar with the development said the NIA was “likely to share and discuss with Sri Lankan authorities all details of its probe in India against various IS (Islamic State) modules, including evidence collected from searches in Kerala, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu. This could include pamphlets, documents, hard drives, laptops and CDs that were recovered by the agency."

At the same time, NIA’s operations against the Coimbatore module of the Islamic State (IS) will also be of key interest.

On 26 February, after months of investigation, the NIA chargesheeted six IS recruits –Mohamed Ashiq, Ismail S., Samsudeen, Mohammed Salauddin S., Jafar Shadik Ali and Shahul Hameed— in India after it was found that the arrested accused “had got radicalized on the violent extremist ideology of the proscribed terrorist organization--ISIS/Da’esh--and they had been propagating the same ideology over social media."

While the IS had claimed responsibility for the attacks in Sri Lanka, prior investigations by the NIA had revealed that the Coimbatore group had gone through videos of the National Thowheed Jamaat leader Zahran Hashim, who had been calling for the establishment of Islamic law in Sri Lanka, following which on 26 February India had passed on the intelligence to Sri Lankan authorities.

The development comes after the Kerala coast was put on high alert, late last week, following intelligence reports that boats carrying nearly 15 IS terrorists had set sail from Sri Lanka to India’s Lakshadweep slands.

There has been significant and growing movement of Islamic State cells and workers in pockets of Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Kerala and any suspicious movements are being closely monitored, according to intelligence units
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@SrNair @koolzberg @Khatri_pune @Axomiya_lora @ajpirzada @SrNair @Smarana Mitra @mastaan @Sekhon Rafiqui @Aryan0395 @HydNizam @God Parshuram @mastaan @Jugger @Syed Hammad Ahmed @surya kiran @Chowkidar placemat @nahtanbob @Godman @Buddhistforlife @pothead

I believe India should get involved with Sri Lanka in investing the bombings because the NTJ terrorist group who carried out the blasts was a sub section of a terrorist group based in Kerala. This is a very serious issue for India.

 

[Cobra Arbok]

I believe India should get involved with Sri Lanka in investing the bombings because the NTJ terrorist group who carried out the blasts was a sub section of a terrorist group based in Kerala. This is a very serious issue for India.

The NTJ is mainly a political group in India that advocates for Tamil Muslims. The Indian NTJ has denied any responsibility for the attack. But it is true that ISIS has a growing presence in South India, with several youths in Kerala and TN already having been arrested. All Muslim groups in the region with any connection whatsoever to the bombings need to be shut down and their leadership arrested.