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Day 10: Sri Lanka Suspends Police Chief over Easter Attacks, Over 150 Arrested
Intelligence warnings from abroad alerting to possible attacks by Islamist Chief of police Pujith Jayasundara had refused to quit to clear the way for a shake-up of the 85,000-strong force, prompting President Maithripala Sirisena to suspend him on Monday. Senior Deputy Inspector-General Chandana Wickramaratne was appointed acting police chief in his place, Sirisena's office said in a statement. Separately Sirisena appointed on Monday a former head of the army, Shantha Kottegoda, as the country's top defence official. His predecessor at the ministry of defence and law and order, Hemasiri Fernando, stepped down on Thursday in the wake of the attacks, which were claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. General Kottegoda, 69, was forced to retire as head of the army in December 2005, by then-president Mahinda Rajapakse. Sirisena said an intelligence agency from a neighbouring country had provided precise details of the impending attack 17 days in advance, but local authorities had failed to take counter measures. Official sources said the president was referring to information provided by India's Research and Analysis Wing which apparently gleaned details of the Easter attacks from a jihadist suspect in Indian custody. Security forces searched a Moslem burial ground in Colombo Monday following information that explosives had been hidden there, but the troops did not find any, officials said. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... cordon and search searches were carried out across the country and 13 foreign nationals overstaying their visas were jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! , police said. It was not clear if the foreigners -- 10 Nigerians and one each from India, Iran and Thailand -- were linked to religious Over 150 people have been arrested since April 21 and more than 15 people killed in raids.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... had been going to religious organizations. "Saudi Arabia or the Middle East has been the source of many of those funds and some of it has gone into these extreme organizations," Wickremesinghe told the AP on Thursday. "These are what we are investigating." The Saudi government did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
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