ISIS Claims Responsibility For Easter Sunday Bombings In Sri Lanka

The name changes... but they still need to be eradicated...

Something is odd about the whole attribution thing for this. I don't doubt the horrendous, evil nature of ISIS, but I don't think they did this. I also don't know what to make of the Sri Lankan government's accusations against the other group. I'm not convinced of anything yet. I think the US Government needs to decide for itself who did what and why (and I'm assuming it will do just that).

Reasons:

- Given the nature of Sri Lanka's political and social situation, why attacks on Christians specifically, with no attacks on any other group on the island? That is weird given what I've read about the situation in Sri Lanka. To my knowledge, Christians are not particularly influential in Sri Lanka and make up a minority of the people. From reading on the subject, the main conflicts seem to be between hard-core nationalist Sinhalese and religious minorities, more than between the minority groups themselves.

- Some of the early news on the day of the attack was odd. First and foremost, the very rapid declaration by the Sri Lankan government they had the building where the attacks had been planned. It seems a little like "We __don't__ know who did this, and we'll tell you who they are after we try and execute them, now nothing to see here, move along."

- Regarding the ISIS claim - what does Sri Lanka have to do with anything in ISIS world? Not even remotely relevant to their situation. I think this is just a desperate attempt to demonstrate strength (and hope to recruit replacements and money) by claiming something they know about like all the rest of us - from reading/watching the news.

Doesn't surprise me. We were in way too much of a hurry to pull out of the region, and now we're paying for it. Someone should've told them that if they wanted to accomplish whatever they had in mind, this was going to pretty much be a life-long marriage.