{"id":63764,"date":"2019-04-27T03:27:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T07:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=63764"},"modified":"2019-04-27T03:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T07:29:40","slug":"suicide-bomber-abdul-lathief-jameel-mohamed-who-did-post-graduate-studies-in-technology-at-swinbourne-univesity-in-melbourne-from-2009-to-2013-had-been-investgated-by-australian-authorities-as-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=63764","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Bomber Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed Who Did Post-Graduate Studies in Technology at Swinbourne Univesity in Melbourne From 2009 to 2013 Had Been Investgated By Australian Authorities for Suspected Terrorism."},"content":{"rendered":"

By<\/p>\n

Paul Maley and Primrose Riordan<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sri Lankan suicide bomber who studied at a Melbourne university was one of the subjects of a \u00adterrorism investigation by Australian security authorities after \u00adintelligence emerged linking him to \u00adIslamic State operative Neil Prakash.<\/p>\n

The Australian can reveal that Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, one of nine suicide bombers \u00adresponsible for a string of attacks across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, was investigated by the Joint Counter Terrorism Team in 2014.<\/p>\n

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The investigation was triggered by intelligence that linked \u00adMohamed to several counter-terrorism targets, including Prakash.<\/p>\n

Sri Lankan authorities suspect Mohamed was one of the ringleaders of the attacks attributed to Islamist group National Thowheeth Jama\u2019ath and Islamic State, which have so far killed 250 people (revised down from the earlier toll of 359).<\/p>\n

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\nOne of Mohamed\u2019s sisters, Samsul Hidaya, last night revealed how he had become \u201cdeeply \u00adreligious\u201d in \u00adAustralia and returned to Sri Lanka a different man.<\/p>\n

Ms Hidaya said Mohamed had became increasingly withdrawn and intense as he descended into extremism.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy brother became deeply, deeply religious while he was in Australia,\u201d Ms Hidaya told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was normal when he went to study in Britain, and normal when he came back. But after he did his postgraduate in Australia, he came back to Sri Lanka a different man.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a long beard and had lost his sense of humour. He \u00adbecame serious and withdrawn and would not even smile at anyone he didn\u2019t know, let alone laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Hidaya said after returning from Australia, Mohamed would berate family members for \u00adreligious lapses and would not let his children listen to music.<\/p>\n

Another of Mohamed\u2019s sisters, Fathima Zeenia, told police in a statement seen by The Australian, that he had completed a \u201ccourse\u201d in Indian Kashmir, a hotbed of \u00adIslamic radicalism and militant training.<\/p>\n

Mohamed travelled to Syria and joined Islamic State before \u00adreturning to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The Australian understands he had contact with \u00adPrakash, who at the time was at the height of his \u00adinfluence as an online radicaliser and facilitator for terrorist violence across the West, \u00adincluding Australia.<\/p>\n

The full nature of that relationship is still being investigated but one source said that, at the very least, there was an \u201conline\u2019\u2019 link \u00adbetween Mohamed and Prakash.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Mohamed had studied at Melbourne\u2019s Swinburne University from 2009-2013, where he completed postgraduate studies in technology.<\/p>\n

His life in Australia was investigated by authorities once his links to Prakash and other counter-\u00adterrorism targets em\u00aderged, although the investigation produced no evidence suggesting he was a threat while in Australia.<\/p>\n

Nor did evidence emerge that he had associated with Islamist \u00adextremists while in Melbourne. However, in light of the Easter \u00adattacks, the Sri Lanka bomber\u2019s life in Australia is again under the microscope.<\/p>\n

Australian Federal Police and ASIO are re-examining his relationships in Australia, particularly the possibility he had links to the small community of \u00adIslamic State radicals who ran riot in Melbourne in the early stages of the Syrian civil war.<\/p>\n

Prakash, who is in jail in Turkey after he was caught fleeing Syria, left Melbourne in 2013. He had been a regular at the now defunct Al Furqan prayer hall where he met a community of Islamic State radicals. There is no evidence \u00adMohamed and Prakash knew each other while they were both in Melbourne. The Australian has been told it appears the pair communicated once Mohamed returned to Sri Lanka but before he travelled to Syria.<\/p>\n

Before coming to Australia he studied aeronautics in Britain, prompting speculation he might have been one of the group\u2019s bomb-makers.<\/p>\n

After failing to set off his bomb at the intended target last Sunday, Mohamed detonated it close to the New Tropical Inn guesthouse in the Dehiwala \u00addistrict to the south of the city centre, killing two people. His attack was the seventh of the day and caused the fewest \u00adfatalities.<\/p>\n

The AFP has flown officers to Sri Lanka to help authorities in what is now a major transnational investigation aimed at tracking down the bombers\u2019 overseas links.<\/p>\n

Scott Morrison said yesterday that one of the attackers had spent time in Australia.<\/p>\n

He did not name him but said the man had held a spouse and child visa at the time and did not return after leaving in 2013.<\/p>\n

Prakash was associated with a small team of English-speaking ISIS operatives who used the \u00adinternet to radicalise young \u00adMuslims and encourage them to launch attacks in their home towns. English pair Junaid Hussein and Sally Jones were also members of the group and it is understood Mohamed has been linked to them.<\/p>\n

While in Melbourne, Prakash had contact with 18-year-old Numan Haider, who was shot dead in 2014 after he stabbed two police officers in a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n

Eight out of the nine suicide bombers, including a pregnant mother of three, have been identified by police.<\/p>\n

Most were well \u00adeducated and all allegedly pledged allegiance to Islamic State.<\/p>\n

Australian diplomats indicated they were not told about the multiple warnings Sri Lanka had \u00adreceived about the attacks.<\/p>\n

The Sri Lankan government has publicly acknowledged it \u00adreceived as many as three warnings about the possibility of \u00adattacks from India, including \u00adspecific information about the likely targets.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s failure to act on the intelligence is now the \u00adsubject of a major scandal in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Australia \u00adupdated its travel advice to warn tourists that there could be further terror attacks in Sri Lanka following the Easter bombings.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s \u201cSmartraveller\u201d website now includes a warning relating to Sri Lanka: \u201cTerrorist groups may undertake further \u00adattacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australia had already made changes to its travel advice for Sri Lanka \u2014 for the first time since \u00adDecember \u2014 following Sunday\u2019s \u00adattack, altering the level of advice to \u201creconsider your need to \u00adtravel\u201d.<\/p>\n

Courtesy:The Australian<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Paul Maley and Primrose Riordan The Sri Lankan suicide bomber who studied at a Melbourne university was one of the subjects of a \u00adterrorism investigation by Australian security authorities after \u00adintelligence emerged linking him to \u00adIslamic State operative Neil Prakash. The Australian can reveal that Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, one of nine suicide bombers …<\/p>\n

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