The hole where militants behind the Easter Sunday bombings had hidden their cache of explosives and bomb-making material still lies open in the red earth of a Sri Lankan coconut plantation.
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It was on this 80 acres of farmland near Wanathavilluwa that Sri Lankan CID officers found more than 220lb of explosives and containers of bomb-making chemicals.
The January haul by detectives investigating an increasingly militant Islamist extremist group then known only for smashing Buddhist statues should have set alarm bells ringing.
Yet while four people were arrested at the time, two were quickly freed and police downplayed the find, making no mention of its link to the National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ)…
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