{"id":115918,"date":"2019-10-24T02:47:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/24\/sri-lanka-spy-chief-blamed-for-failures-over-easter-bombings\/"},"modified":"2019-10-24T02:47:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:47:50","slug":"sri-lanka-spy-chief-blamed-for-failures-over-easter-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=115918","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka spy chief blamed for failures over Easter bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentary report says Nilantha Jayawardena had information on attacks 17 days before they happenedA Sri Lankan parliamentary committee that investigated the Easter suicide bombings has concluded the country\u2019s spy chief was primarily responsible for the intelligence failure that led to the deaths of 269 people in the attacks.In a report released on Wednesday the committee said Nilantha Jayawardena received information on possible attacks as early as 4 April \u2013 17 days before the suicide bombings took place \u2013 but there were delays on his part in sharing the intelligence with other agencies. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/24\/sri-lanka-spy-chief-blamed-for-failures-over-easter-bombings\" target=\"_blank\">Sri Lanka spy chief blamed for failures over Easter bombings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentary report says Nilantha Jayawardena had information on attacks 17 days before they happenedA Sri Lankan parliamentary committee that investigated the Easter suicide bombings has concluded the country\u2019s spy chief was primarily responsible for the intelligence failure that led to the deaths of 269 people in the attacks.In a report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}