It's an speculation. There's no solid proof that anyone is involved in this or these bitcoins are involved. There may be another reason of these bitcoin transaction.
It's not confirmed yet I think it should not be true, otherwise, people will get another reason to call bitcoin an illegal currency.
Yes I hope you're right but in the paper of Globes they explain how they found that
Levy told "Globes" about the process by which Whitestream identifies usage by ISIS of a bitcoin wallet.
"Firstly we identified a certain bitcoin address that received several donations at different times, and we succeeded in verifying that two of the donations came from the address that was presented on ISIS's donations website.
Even though the amount on this address was only several dollars, through this wallet we were able to identify that ISIS collects the donations via CoinPayments.
This address is just a junction, which reveals the link between CoinPayments and ISIS's donations. Our assumption is that the terrorist organization probably possesses many bitcoin addresses through CoinPayments, with every donation sent to a different address.
On the day before the Sri Lanka terror attacks we identified two relatively big transactions at this address with bitcoins worth about $9,800."
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-exclusive-isis-funded-sri-lanka-bombings-with-bitcoin-donations-1001284276This agency seems to be working with/for the Israeli government : "Whitestream works with Israel's Ministry of Defense's National Council for Fighting Terror Financing"
And as JSRAW said they are very will informed about these kinds of things
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I keep wondering how are Israeli intelligence keep updating every news so fast related to this incident. I know they are good but still.
they were the first to react when bomb blast took place, if I am not wrong with in one hour they published the whole report.