Inside factory where Sri Lanka jihadists plotted to slaughter Christians | Daily Mail Online
This is the factory where the Easter Sunday attacks were masterminded and the 'mother of Satan' suicide bombs are believed to have been built, MailOnline can reveal.
The copper factory, in Wellampitiya, a north-eastern suburb of Colombo, belonged to 'calm and devout' Inshaf Ahamad, who is understood to have blown himself up at a hotel frequented by foreigners in the atrocity.
Inshaf's brother-in-law said the businessman drove a brand new white Land Cruiser and came from a middle class background.
Speaking to MailOnline, Ashkhan Alamdeen, 29, said he had brought shame their family.
'They have ruined our family and taken the lives of hundreds of people from all over the world,' Ashkhan said.
'We had no idea what they were planning. If we had, we would have immediately told the police.'
Inshaf is said to have attacked the Cinnamon Grand hotel where retired fireman Bill Harrop and his wife Sally were killed, while his brother Ilham targeted the Shangri-La, massacring British lawyer Ben Nicholson’s wife and two children.
Their father, a successful spice trader, was arrested at the family home after bombs went off at the family home, killing three police officers.
Ashkhan went on: 'We feel no emotion apart from anger. Pure anger. They were successful men with everything to live for.
He said his sister, Ishfan's wife, was 'living in a dream world' following the massacre.
'She can't believe it really happened. She is in great psychological pain.'
After obtaining the material for the bomb, Inshaf, a father-of-four in his mid-thirties, told his wife that he was going to Zambia on a business trip, Mr Alamdeen said.
The investigation is ongoing, but detectives believe the location was used to build the suicide vest using the explosive substance triacetone triperoxide, dubbed 'Mother of Satan' by Al Qaeda for its destructive power.
The substance, a calling card of Islamist terrorists, played a role in both the 2017 Manchester bombing and 2015 Paris Bataclan attacks.
A senior police source closely involved with the investigation told MailOnline that
Inshaf's financial background 'doesn't appear to add up'.
'Where did he get so much money from? That is the question we are asking,' the source said. 'The network is so widespread that we are just starting to piece it together.
'It's like a cancer that has already spread through the body that we are trying to cure.'
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The jihadist cell that carried out the attack on the Ramblas in Barcelona in 2017, killed three of their own when they made a mistake while cooking TATP. The police first dismissed the explosion as related to gas, it wasn't until after the attack on the Ramblas that they took a closer look and discovered a factory.
TATP, 'THE MOTHER OF SATAN' FOUND IN THE RUINS OF THE HOUSE IN ALCANAR
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‘La madre de Satán’ aparece entre las ruinas de Alcanar
Investigators combing the ruins of the house that exploded last Wednesday in Alcanar (Tarragona), alleged base of operations of the now disarmed terrorist group, have found traces of the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP), better known as the mother of Satan.
The finding reinforces the thesis that the terrorist group that has caused 14 deaths in Barcelona and Cambrils had plans to commit more extensive attacks. Among the pieces of rubble, beams and butane gas bottles, the Mossos have detected samples of TATP.
The remains of the explosive point to the frustrated intentions of the terrorists to carry out attacks with deflagrations whose impact would have surpassed the current number of victims.
TATP is an explosive commonly used by members of the Islamic State deployed in Europe, found in attacks such as Brussels, Paris or 7-J in London. The mother of Satan can have two aspects: dry and powdery, which causes it to be extremely unstable, or gelled with water or acetone, which makes it more stable.
The three basic compounds of TATP are acetone, hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid, products that can be purchased at any drugstore. Their preparation may take days, but it is simple, according to experts iof the anti terrorist units.
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