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Sri Lanka Bombings Live Updates: Police Arrest 24 as Death Toll Nears 300
NY Times ^ | Apr. 22, 2019 | NY Times

Posted on 04/21/2019 10:05:53 PM PDT by Innovative

The Sri Lankan police have arrested 24 people in connection with a series of devastating suicide bombings at hotels and churches on Easter Sunday that left nearly 300 people dead and more than 500 injured.

• No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but a police officer alerted security officials in an advisory 10 days ago about a threat to churches from a radical Islamist group, National Thowheeth Jama’ath. The authorities, however, failed to act on the information, government officials said.

• A nationwide curfew was lifted on Monday morning, but major social media and messaging services, including Facebook and WhatsApp, remained blocked by the government to curb the spread of misinformation.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: braking; srilanka; terrorattack; terrorists
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Horrible.

But good that they got at least some of the terrorists.

1 posted on 04/21/2019 10:05:53 PM PDT by Innovative
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2 posted on 04/21/2019 10:08:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Innovative

Just some people who did something on a stroll on Easter Weekend in Sri Lanka. At this point what difference does it make anyway? No sense in getting all wee-wee’d up about it? Sometimes people disrespectful of the prophet need to shut up and eat their peas and get to the back of the bus.


3 posted on 04/21/2019 10:11:38 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: Innovative

Never heard of this group before.

It’s a smart tactic, having lots of “groups”.

Then muslim leaders can say it wasn’t muslims in general but this or that “group”.

We should look at each “group” as we looked at German divisions, part of the whole.

And needing to die.


4 posted on 04/21/2019 10:12:59 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Innovative

Too bad they didn’t catch wind of all those attacks going to happen.


5 posted on 04/21/2019 10:16:17 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Innovative

Ah, our resident terrorist in Congress already knows who, “some people did something”. Now, let’s move along. /s


6 posted on 04/21/2019 10:17:20 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: dp0622

Islam is Islam. They might claim it was a subset of Muslims but at the end of the day, they are all the same. No one is safe is any member of the Islamic cult amongst us.


7 posted on 04/21/2019 10:18:44 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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Has she condemned the Christians or Jews yet?


8 posted on 04/21/2019 10:20:00 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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Exactly.

But suckers fall for it.

“there’s only 259 members of that group. There are 1.6 billion muslims!!”

It’s the lie that many fall prey to.

Even bushie, I think, said something like most of Islam is peaceful or something to that effect, way back when.


9 posted on 04/21/2019 10:22:39 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Innovative
It's hug a Muslim day.


10 posted on 04/21/2019 10:27:52 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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Well, Some Grand Ayatollah in Iran is telling the world that “Allah is happy with all of this killing!” Personally, I’d like to wake up tomorrow to read that this a$$hole has been rendered dead via one of our sniper’s long-range kill shots!


11 posted on 04/21/2019 10:30:32 PM PDT by vette6387
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It's hug a Muslim day.

Hopefully it will change to "hunt a muslim day" when good people wake up.

12 posted on 04/21/2019 10:31:54 PM PDT by roadcat
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These guys just need to die.

Young Iranians rose up when we had a muslim loving garbage president.

How about NOW, while we have a president that will support them!

I’d be willing to wager maybe 15 percent of muzzies would like to forget the word “Islam” if they wouldn’t get killed for suggesting such a thing.

It’s not a YUGE percentage, but it’s something to work with.

Arm. Train. Set loose.


13 posted on 04/21/2019 10:33:06 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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Can we please stop this?

We have a major attack from this Jihadi freaks, families in mourning. Frankly, I think these dead Christians deserve a little more than snarky sarcasm.

Yes, something should be done about these apologists for islamic murderers. But constantly giving them air-time on our networks isn’t one of the solutions.

jimjoh - OUT.


14 posted on 04/21/2019 10:38:05 PM PDT by jimjohn (2nd American Civil War: ongoing since January 20, 2017.)
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Too clean.

Need to go Luca Brazi on them.

15 posted on 04/21/2019 10:43:13 PM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: roadcat
Well, obviously this strategy ain't working.

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16 posted on 04/21/2019 10:57:50 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Innovative

Muslim fanatics in Sri Lanka. Muslim loving fanatics at the NYT


17 posted on 04/21/2019 11:01:00 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Karl Spooner

A pic is worth a thousand words they say. That pic is worth just about every word ever written or uttered. How dare that commie, white anter of a pope kiss that islamic war manual. He might as well go and kiss Mein Kampf whilst he is at it. He kisses Das Kapital every chance he gets too. Disgusting


18 posted on 04/21/2019 11:07:01 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They were alerted 10 days ago of attacks on Christian churches, but did not act.


19 posted on 04/21/2019 11:13:45 PM PDT by healy61
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Yes, renounce Islam or die. They are a threat to the rest of the world. 1.6 billion people bent on killing “infidels”, cheering each death.


20 posted on 04/21/2019 11:14:40 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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