The Western-educated bomber who botched Sri Lanka hotel attack

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His target was the breakfast buffet at the Taj Samudra, a luxury hotel on Colombo's seafront. Abdul Latheef Mohamed Jameel, who was educated in Australia and Britain, was the only attacker out of the eight Sri Lankans pledging allegiance to Islamic State who failed to hit his intended target in the series of Easter Sunday attacks that killed at least 253, according to police. People who knew him said Jameel, like many of the other bombers, was an educated family man who was radicalized after traveling abroad, though an attempt to reach Syria failed in 2014, according to a Sri Lankan intelligence source.