(MENAFN - Colombo Gazette)
Sri Lanka and the US Justice Department had talks on the charges against three Sri Lankan ISIS supporters linked to the Easter Sunday attacks.
The three accused, all of whom pledged allegiance to ISIS, are Mohamed Naufar, the second emir for the group of ISIS supporters that called itself ISIS in Sri Lanka , Mohamed Anwar Mohamed Riskan, who allegedly helped manufacture the IEDs used in the Easter Attacks and Ahamed Milhan Hayathu Moahmed, who allegedly executed a police officer in order to obtain the officer s firearm, shot a suspected informant, and scouted a location for a separate terrorist attack.
A Cyber Cooperation Agenda With The US
Prof. Rohan Samarajiva
Opportunities for effective policy intervention are described as policy windows. Some are unpredictable, like an epidemic or some scandal. But some policy windows are predictable, especially in countries which hold elections based on a regular schedule. It is well known that the assumption of duties by a new President in the United States is a policy window. When the new President’s positions and approach are fundamentally different from his predecessor’s, the opportunities afforded by the policy window are even richer.
Everyone who has an interest in influencing the actions of the US government knows this. Therefore, every incoming administration is inundated with policy briefs and notes. The challenge is to get one’s voice heard. For the government of a small and distant country such as Sri Lanka this is tough. In these circumstances, various parties, including some hucksters, make their pitches for our
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Posted on January 9th, 2021
Courtesy
The Associated Press
Three Sri Lankan men have
been charged in California with aiding a terrorist group blamed for 2019 Easter
attacks that killed 268 people in Sri Lanka, including five U.S. citizens
• LOS ANGELES Three Sri Lankan men have been charged in California with aiding a terrorist group blamed for 2019 Easter attacks that killed 268 people in Sri Lanka, including five U.S. citizens, and injured hundreds, it was announced Friday.
Mohamed
Naufar, Mohamed Anwar Mohamed Riskan and Ahamed Milhan Hayathu Moahmed were
charged last month in federal court in Los Angeles with conspiracy and
providing and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist