• At least two arrests made after the attacks suggest that young IT professionals were among those associated with JMI.
  • Investigators say they suspect Aadhil Ameez, 24, a software engineer who might have provided technical and logistical support to the bombers, to have been a link between different jihadist units.
  • A Reuters report reveals that Ameez — who calls himself Aadhil Ax — has been under Indian surveillance from 2016, when he was found to be in touch with two suspects linked to a plot targeting Ahmedabad and with three Indians promoting the IS.
  • Ameez was from Dharga Town, near Aluthgama on the southern coast, where Muslims faced large-scale, targeted violence in 2012. As in Digana in 2018, the attacks seemed part of a pattern. It was repeated last week in parts of Kurunegala and Gampaha, when mobs torched Muslim-owned shops and homes.
  • Ameez is believed to have interned with IT company Virtusa in 2013, where one employee was recently arrested for suspected links with the Easter attacks. “We don’t know if he played a role, but there are indications that this employee met Hashim on April 6,” said a senior investigating officer.