Saturday, April 27, 2019

UPDATE: Easter Sunday bomber radicalised in Australia, Sri Lanka PM suggests

Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, 36, blew himself up in guesthouse while trying to fix suicide device after botched hotel attack

Sri Lanka’s prime minister says investigators of Easter Sunday’s deadly string of suicide bombings are aware of “some militancy going on in Australia” and believe one of the attackers may have been radicalised while studying in the country.

Ranil Wickremesinghe told Guardian Australia that Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, who undertook a postgraduate degree at Melbourne’s Swinburne University in 2009 and left the country in 2013, appeared to have been influenced by extremist ideas during that period.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2PyQ7bO

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