Sri Lanka bombings: Security services had extensive knowledge about deadly attacks.

The Independent: Sri Lanka bombings: Security services had extensive knowledge about deadly attacks.

The security services and police force in Sri Lanka had extensive knowledge about a plot to carry out attacks on churches, according to a number of international intelligence officials, before the Easter massacre claiming more than 300 lives.

The detailed information, including names and addresses of suspects, was instrumental in carrying out over 40 arrests in the past few days, with more than two dozen picked up in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. But the apparent failure of authorities to act before the suicide bombers struck- - -is likely to be a key issue in the investigation announced by the Sri Lankan government.
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The Indian foreign intelligence service Raw (Research and Analysis Wing) passed on a warning about the threat of attack to churches and the Indian High Commission in Colombo in the first week of April, say Indian, Sri Lankan and western sources, and the severity of the threat was reiterated to the Sri Lankans separately by US intelligence officials.
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According to officials, it was initially thought the weaponry belonged to Tamil separatists trying to establish themselves but it quickly became clear that extremist Islamists had ownership.
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Isis has claimed credit for the killings, as it routinely does after Islamist terrorist attacks, but there is no evidence to support this at the moment.
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...the deputy inspector general of police, on 11 April, and seen by The Independent, shows the warning was sent to officers at the highest level – Director/Ministerial Security Division: Director/judicial Security Division: Director/ Retired Presidents Security Division: Acting Director/Diplomatic Security Division: Acting Director /Retired Presidents Security Division.
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No warnings were given to church authorities or the hotels or foreign embassies. As well as Sri Lanka’s internal investigations, outside powers will also demand answers. And the country’s tourist industry, meanwhile, is likely to find that its strenuous attempts to attract visitors after the long civil war with Tamil separatists have suffered a massive setback.

The reasons, speculation and theories why the advance warnings were ignored, disregarded and not communicated to those targeted by the attacks cannot be contained.

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