FBI assisting Sri Lanka authorities with probe of bomb attacks: FBI

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A coffin of a victim is carried, two days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Negombo, Sri Lanka April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

WASHINGTON - The FBI is assisting Sri Lankan authorities with their investigation of the bomb attacks over the Easter weekend on three churches and four hotels, a spokeswoman for the U.S. law enforcement agency said on Tuesday. The Washington Post earlier had reported that the FBI had offered expertise to test evidence and that analysts were scouring databases for information regarding the attacks, which killed 321 people.

 

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Assisting in actually finding the truth or assisting in covering up the truth?

RT : FBI assisting Sri Lanka authorities with probe of bomb attacks: FBI

Which FBI? Obama’s or Trump’s?

We should have been ready. This is what happened in Egypt at the Coptic Churches in the Palm Sunday, and January 1st attacks. We should have been ready.

I won't be surprised if they are involved with the bomb attacks

Best on the planet w that job. Maybe we like the FBI again now?

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