Easter Sunday Sri Lanka Church and Hotel bombings.

[Pickman's model]

Foreign intelligence warned the Sri Lankan authorities of a possible attack. However the police had been slow or failed to decipher the unverifiable details of targets, where and when, claimed to have been furnished by the international intelligence sources; and in a slumber of relative peace and tranquillity, did not expect anything of this scale. It is a coordinated attack incredible even in Sri Lanka. It is a proxy attack instigated by an international terror network that have been active in other parts of the world; because a small Sri Lankan homegrown jihadi group has no motive or objective to carry out this attack.

and you should certainly have read the articles linked to

 

[Pickman's model]

I did.

good

 

[Baronage-Phase]

good

 

[teqniq]

Sri Lanka Muslims Had Warned Officials About Group Behind Attack

...Wickremesinghe, who returned to power in December after President Maithripala Sirisena fired him last year amid government infighting, said authorities had received warnings but “not enough attention had been paid” to them. The two leaders, from different parties, rule as part of a fractious coalition.

The premier’s comments amount to a "barbed reference" to Sirisena’s control of the police and military, which fall under the office of the president, according to Jehan Perera, executive director at National Peace Council of Sri Lanka. He noted the Tamil Tigers were never able to mount such a coordinated attack in the capital, Colombo.

“The prime minister is making a barbed reference to the president, and what he’s been up to, because his people -- the police and military -- have not been following up on leads,” Perera said. “The fact that this group was able to come in and do something in such a large scale way means that there must have been a breakdown of intelligence networks.”

 

[AnandLeo]

Wrt to the intelligence and who told who this has been reworded since I last saw it and goes some way to explaining what went wrong:
So internal rivalries/infighting led to the information not being shared which led to a lot of people getting killed.
From here

I know of internal rivalries or conflicts of ethos of work place, not in terrorism, cause disruption, unnecessary chaos and frustration at work.

 

[Ranbay]

“Muslim Council of Sri Lanka warned govt about an Islamist hate preacher it believes was behind the group blamed for bombings. His videos still up on YouTube and Facebook”


Apparently it’s in response to Christchurch attack’s.

 

[RainbowTown]

No, it is beyond my understanding of human nature.

I simply haven't experienced people who hate others as much as would be needed to carry out attacks like these. And how are the suicide bombers motivated?

Not definitive by any means, but here's an interesting article that does attempt to at least explain the actions and motivations of such people:

www.jmvh.org/article/motivation-of-suicide-attackers/


More so, there's a book by Riaz Hassan called Life As A Weapon - The Global Rise of Suicide Bombings (2010) which is well worth a read, though contentious at times. Whether it's still in print I'm not sure.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

“Muslim Council of Sri Lanka warned govt about an Islamist hate preacher it believes was behind the group blamed for bombings. His videos still up on YouTube and Facebook”


Apparently it’s in response to Christchurch attack’s.

Just read that too.
“The preliminary investigations have revealed that what happened in Sri Lanka was in retaliation for the attack against Muslims in Christchurch,” state minister of defence Ruwan Wijewardene told parliament."

TheJournal.ie - Sri Lanka minister: Easter bomb attacks were 'in retaliation' for Christchurch mosque shootings


Video footage of one of the suicide bombers entering one church has been posted by an Indian news station.
It's in the link to the article below....

► VIDEO: Video shows suspected suicide bomber entering Sri Lanka church

What this shows is how quickly these terrorists were able to mobilise and organise.

 

[planetgeli]

Scale of Sri Lankan attack suggests Isis 'sub-contracted' bombings

IS claim responsibility.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Death toll is at 359.

Sri Lanka admits 'major' lapse over deadly bombings

 

[Baronage-Phase]

15 killed during police operation in Sri Lanka

"Police in Sri Lanka say 15 people, including six children, have died during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces as three cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot dead."

15 killed during police operation in Sri Lanka

 

[planetgeli]

Death toll is at 359.

Sri Lanka admits 'major' lapse over deadly bombings

Death toll is at 'about 253'. Dead bodies can be hard to count.

Sri Lanka toll revised down by 'about 100'

 

[likesfish]

multiple body parts can be hard to count

 

[Baronage-Phase]

multiple body parts can be hard to count

 

[extra dry]

Not mentally ill or poor desperate fighters battleing a last stand, but some wealthly middle class adults who got brainwashed.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Not mentally ill or poor desperate fighters battleing a last stand, but some wealthly middle class adults who got brainwashed.

Mentally ill and wealthy are not mutually exclusive categories, of course, but I get your point. Simple explanations won't get us anywhere, whether they be from a left-wing or right-wing perspective.

The combination of ideological possession, mental illness, religious fanaticism, ethnic prejudice by and upon the atrackers, societal alienation, and any number of other things, makes this problem almost intractable.

 

[petee]

Not mentally ill or poor desperate fighters battleing a last stand, but some wealthly middle class adults who got brainwashed.

as with the 9/11 bunch.