Standing under a black flag of the Islamic State, eight men declare their loyalt...
COLOMBO - Standing under a black flag of the Islamic State, eight men declare their loyalty to the group’s leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
IS claims the men in the video, released late on Tuesday by its AMAQ news agency, carried out the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in Sri Lanka that killed more than 350 people in churches and luxury hotels, the deadliest such attack in South Asia’s history.Sri Lankan intelligence officials and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe believe that Zahran, a Tamil-speaking preacher from the east of the Indian Ocean island country, may have masterminded the attacks.
They said Zahran was a fringe figure with fewer than 200 followers, who began posting extremist videos on his Facebook page in 2016 that called for violence against non-Muslims.In one of the clips, shared with Reuters by R. Abdul Razziq, the general secretary of an Islamic group, Ceylon Thowheed Jamath, Zahran is seen threatening to attack civilians using explosive-laden vehicles.
Farhan Faris, the assistant manager of All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama , the apex body of Islamic scholars in Sri Lanka, said his group had been holding regular meetings with Sri Lankan defense officials for two years about militancy, at many of which Zahran was mentioned.
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