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US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Alaina Teplitz has told the CNN that the US did not provide Sri Lanka with advance intelligence regarding imminent attacks prior to Easter Sunday. 

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, the Ambassador said that they had no prior knowledge of the attacks.

“We had no prior knowledge of these attacks. The Sri Lankan Government has admitted lapses in their intelligence gathering and information sharing,” she said.

The CNN reports that this contradicts what the Sri Lankan Government has said as Minister Harsha de Silva earlier told CNN that advance intelligence had been provided by “both India and the US.”

When Amanpour asked the Ambassador about De Silva’s claim, she responded: “Well I can’t speak for others. I don’t know what other sources of information the Government of Sri Lanka might have had. I can just tell you that we had no prior knowledge,”

However, Minister Harsha De Silva told the Daily Mirror that it was not what he exactly said.
“What I said was that I understood that India and US gave us intelligence and that’s what I heard,” he said.


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  • BuffaloaCitizen Wednesday, 24 April 2019 01:24 PM

    India has the best intelligence system for this region and they had informed GOSL, however the so called parliamentarians only interested in their pocket full.

    ANTON Wednesday, 24 April 2019 01:29 PM

    NOW OUR HARIN ALSO WILL REPEAT THIS. ....... MY FATHER HAD A DREAM.

    Dc Wednesday, 24 April 2019 05:34 PM

    And Sec-Def also said FBI warned them.


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