NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 4/21-MONDAY 4/22/2019
(EDITING, UPDATES ETC. ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MONDAY MORNING)
Eight churches and hotels were targets of bombing attacks in Sri Lanka Easter Sunday with 290 reported dead and about 500 wounded. The acts of terrorism involved suicide bombers.
Foreign nationals are among the casualties including several Americans who are reported dead.
Police have taken 24 suspects into custody .
The Agence France Presse news agency reported that an intelligence warning was sent to top Sri Lankan police officials 10 days ago warning of suicide bombing attacks by the militant Muslim group NTJ on churches and the Indian diplomatic mission in the island nation just off the southeast coast of India.
The warning came from Sri Lanka's police chief Pujith Jayasundra.
Link to story...….NDTV INDIA POST OF AFP STORY
The Saudi owned Al-Arabiya news channel based in the United Arab Emirates says a group called Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Watania is responsible for the terrorist attacks.
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said there will be an investigation into how the security forces acted in response to the warning information they had.
The BBC is running a blog on the story.....BBC BLOG SRI LANKA
The election results in Ukraine confirm the exit polls showing a landslide victory for Volodymr Zelensky, actor and comedian. Zelensky receiving than 70 percent of the vote against incumbent president Petro Poroshenko.
Poroshenko has admitted defeat with Zelensky saying:
"I will never let you down"
The leader of Turkey's political opposition attacked at a soldiers funeral.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People's Party CHP was moved to safety by security.
The FBI has arrested a man said to be part of a militia group that was detaining people who entered the United States illegally.
Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, is reported to have been accused of being a felon in possession of a weapon.
Video emerged in the media several days ago of a group called "United Constitutional Patriots" detaining a group that entered the United States that they eventually turned over to the Border Patrol.
New Mexico's Attorney General Hector Balderas said in part that:
"the rule of law should be in the hands of trained law enforcement officials, not armed vigilantes"
From the war in Libya eastern Libyan forces of General Khalifa Haftar staged airstrikes on military positions of the Government of National Accord in Tripoli early Sunday.
Precision guided missiles used in the airstrikes leading to speculation that a foreign power is helping to stage the attacks. There are reports of United Arab Emirates military aircraft stationed in the eastern Libyan territory controlled by General Haftar.
In the aftermath of the removal of Omar al-Bashir from power in Sudan, the United Arab Emriates and Saudi Arabia have pledged 3 billion dollars of support. 500 million dollars will be deposited directly into Sudan's central bank.
But the leaders of the crowds of protesters on the streets of Sudan say they are breaking off contact with the currently ruling military council because it contains elements of the old Bashir regime.
They intend to escalate their level of protest.
Thousands protested in Morocco's capital Rabat Sunday. The "march of the Moroccan people" calling for the release of 42 activists who were jailed for protesting against corruption in the country.
A court recently upheld prison sentences for the activists.
France's Yellow Vests protests continued by and large peaceful on Saturday, Week 23.
101,125 demonstrators estimated by the Yellow Vests themselves with the government's estimate just 27,900.
But in Paris the confrontation at the Place of the Republic (Place de la Republique) was in front of the media and cameras as anarchists sought a fight with police hurling projectiles and in some cases "suicide" comments were offered up. 29 police suicides reported in France this year.
Police ended up using tear gas and water cannon.
Much media coverage and outrage from political leaders over the situation, The First Deputy Mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Gregoire, says:
Two defeats for Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in special elections for seats in the lower house of Japan's parliament Sunday. His Liberal Democratic Party losing in Osaka to a business executive who ran as the "Japan Innovation Party" candidate and on Okinawa an Independent candidate opposed to the US military presence on the island defeated the LDP candidate.
The elections considered a run-up to the upper house elections in Japan this summer.
And also from Japan, another indictment of former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn on a new charge of "aggravated breach of trust". The filing of a new charge justifies continued detention of Ghosn who has already been arrested four times as new charges slightly different from previous ones as the case against him has developed.
Lawyers for Ghosn are attempting to get him released on bail and Ghosn says he is being framed by hostile Nissan executives.
And that's the way it really is on this Monday morning April 22nd, 2019.
But the leaders of the crowds of protesters on the streets of Sudan say they are breaking off contact with the currently ruling military council because it contains elements of the old Bashir regime.
They intend to escalate their level of protest.
Thousands protested in Morocco's capital Rabat Sunday. The "march of the Moroccan people" calling for the release of 42 activists who were jailed for protesting against corruption in the country.
A court recently upheld prison sentences for the activists.
France's Yellow Vests protests continued by and large peaceful on Saturday, Week 23.
101,125 demonstrators estimated by the Yellow Vests themselves with the government's estimate just 27,900.
But in Paris the confrontation at the Place of the Republic (Place de la Republique) was in front of the media and cameras as anarchists sought a fight with police hurling projectiles and in some cases "suicide" comments were offered up. 29 police suicides reported in France this year.
Police ended up using tear gas and water cannon.
Much media coverage and outrage from political leaders over the situation, The First Deputy Mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Gregoire, says:
"the situation is not satisfactory"
when it comes to security measures and they will need to be reviewed.
Two defeats for Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in special elections for seats in the lower house of Japan's parliament Sunday. His Liberal Democratic Party losing in Osaka to a business executive who ran as the "Japan Innovation Party" candidate and on Okinawa an Independent candidate opposed to the US military presence on the island defeated the LDP candidate.
The elections considered a run-up to the upper house elections in Japan this summer.
And also from Japan, another indictment of former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn on a new charge of "aggravated breach of trust". The filing of a new charge justifies continued detention of Ghosn who has already been arrested four times as new charges slightly different from previous ones as the case against him has developed.
Lawyers for Ghosn are attempting to get him released on bail and Ghosn says he is being framed by hostile Nissan executives.
And that's the way it really is on this Monday morning April 22nd, 2019.
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