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By @BREAKING_PTV
April 21
Report: Multiple explosions hit #Colombo, other parts of Sri Lanka
By @PressTV
April 21
VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!

Report: Explosions hit two Sri Lankan churches, two #Colombo hotels
By @PressTV
April 21
UPDATE
Report: At least 80 injured in Sri Lanka church blasts

#Colombo
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1) Hundreds killed and hundreds more wounded in Easter blasts at #SriLanka churches. While no group has yet claimed responsibility, targeting Christians is a staple of #ISIS attack directives (not to mention past attacks in places like Egypt).
2) To that point, #ISIS supporters are already celebrating the attacks as revenge for the military campaign against the group: “Just like the massacre of mosques, it is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” ent.siteintelgroup.com/Chatter/is-sup…
3) While #SriLanka has indeed been mentioned within #ISIS chatter—along with members from Sri Lanka touted as being within the group’s ranks—the country has never been a prominent staple of incitements and recruitment to the like of other nations.
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1/6
Latest #SriLankaBlast update:
-A lot of Twitter chatter about possible link to #NationalThowheethJamaath. Here's a story relaying the substance, next tweets provides some analysis.
hindustantimes.com/world-news/sri…
2/6
Argument in favor of #NationalThowheethJamaath culpability for #SriLankaBlasts:
-According to @AFP, #SriLanka police sent out a warning on April 11 that #NTJ was planning suicide attacks on churches. If report is accurate, suggests there's actual intel rather than just rumor.
3/6
Argument against ##NationalThowheethJamaath being (sole) culprit for #SriLankaAttacks:
-#NTJ has never conducted operations remotely like this: They've largely limited themselves to vandalism. Have not demonstrated anything like the organizational capacity for major ops.
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BREAKING - Reports from Sri Lanka confirm blasts at churches in Batticaloa, Negombo and Colombo and in hotels in Colombo including the Shangri La and the Kingsbury #lka #Tamil
Breaking: 10 confirmed dead in Batticaloa, 25 in Colombo as Easter Sunday bomb blasts rock #SriLanka #lka #Tamil tamilguardian.com/content/breaki…
Breaking .- Photographs from St Anthony's Church in Kochchikade show the extent of the damage in the aftermath of the explosions. #SriLanka #lka
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