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    Why Sri Lanka attackers' wealthy backgrounds shouldn't surprise us

    Recent history shows that people with comfortable lives can easily be drawn towards violent extremism
    by Jason Burke Apr 25, 2019 3 minutes
    Security forces at the Colombo home of the spice exporter Mohamed Yusuf Ibrahim, whose sons were among the Easter Sunday attackers. Photograph: MA Pushpa Kumara/EPA

    When police and soldiers in Sri Lanka set out on the trail of the attackers who killed more than 350 people in a series of bombings on Easter Sunday, they did not expect to find themselves in Dematagoda, one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Colombo.

    Within 90 minutes of the attack, as hospitals struggled to cope with the huge number of casualties, the security forces were closing in on a three-storey house with a BMW parked outside.

    Two brothers lived there with their families: 38-year-old Inshaf Ibrahim,, made a fortune exporting spices. The two brothers were also involved in the . They were both among the attackers.

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