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Islamist Inmates Exempt From Dog Sniffing Searches, Union Boss Claims

2025-04-20

[Breitbart] In the wake of the stabbing of multiple prison guards allegedly by the Manchester Arena terrorist, the head of the largest prison officers’ union revealed that the prison was barred from conducting searches with sniffer dogs on Muslim inmates.

Earlier this month, four prison officers at His Majesty’s Prison Frankland were injured with boiling oil and a makeshift blade.

Hashem Abedi,

... on occasion spelt Hashim al-Obeidi, Salman Abedi’s baby bro and bomb assistant was arrested in Tripoli while pretending to have nothing to do with that messy nonsense back home. And then, after he snubbed the sentencing hearing, the unbelievers went and sentenced him anyway. Both lads were members of the Manchester Libyan jihadi crowd. The parental generation ties back to the al-Qaeda-aligned Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s, while the kids pledged to the even more romantic ISIS. Not that it makes much difference in the end — the networks overlap personnel-wise, it’s just a matter of the name on the checking account paying their expenses...

, who was convicted of aiding his brother in bombing an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester that left 22 dead and over a thousand injured, was alleged to have been the attacker.

On Sunday, the national chair of the Prison Officers’ Association, Mark Fairhurst, claimed that Abedi and other Islamist inmates in Frankland were exempt from searches with trained K-9s on the order of the prison’s management committee, which sided with Muslim prisoners, who complained that contact with dogs went against their faith.

“When it first opened, every prisoner housed on that unit was thoroughly searched on the unit, and when they left the unit and when they returned to the unit. On occasion, dogs were used,” he told The Sun.

“The prisoners complained that it interfered with their religious beliefs. The management committee overruled the staff and removed the dogs from searching those prisoners.”

“We appease these prisoners and pander to them. Why? Why are we so obsessed with upsetting prisoners, terrorist prisoners, whose sole purpose is to murder prison officers?”

This critique was seconded by Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick, who said: “It’s pathetic if HMP Frankland has folded to Islamist prisoners and allowed them to circumvent security checks.

“This would allow Islamist gangs to control prison wings across the country. Officers should not fear being labelled racist if they step in to restore order and control from radical Islamist prisoners.”

According to the paper, unnamed sources within the Ministry of Justice denied that there had been any operational changes regarding the use of dogs in searches, including at the Falkland prison.

Yet, in a statement which seemingly skirted an official denial, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said that the government will seek to “strengthen” the defences of prison staff and the public. She said that in the wake of the stabbing attack at Falkland, the “Prison Service will also conduct a snap review into whether protective body armour should be made available to front-line staff.”

There have been increasing concerns about the Muslim prison population in Britain, which accounts for nearly a fifth of all prisoners despite Muslims only making up around 6 per cent of the country’s population per the latest census.

A 2022 report on the growing influence of Muslim gangs in British prisons by anti-terrorism legislation reviewer Jonathan Hall KC found that such groups were “encouraged” to attack non-Muslim prisoners, as well as on prison staff. The report found that “self-styled emirs” used “enforcers” to exert control over areas of the prison and that there were failures to push back against this by authorities for fear of appearing racist.

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Britain

92 terrorists could be released from jail in the next year: Pressure mounts on parole board to keep fiends behind bars as they reach half-way point in sentences

2021-12-30

Several of 92 active terror cases could come before Parole Board next year

Terrorists must serve two thirds of sentence before they are eligible for release

Cases under review include Nazam Hussain,

...in a 9-man Al Qaeda bomb squad of Brit nationals from Bangladesh and Pakistan, the man from Stoke-on-Trent wanted to go to Pakistan’s Kashmir for training...
Jack Coulson

...merely a Nazi-loving bomb maker, not a jihadi...
and Rangzieb Ahmed
...captured and reportedly tortured in Pakistan by the ISI in 2006 before being turned over to the London authorities, the Pakistan-born Brit was a member of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and Al Qaeda’s top man in the UK...
Hussain jailed for plotting attacks with London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan
...the Pakistani-Brit jailbird who in November, 2019 ran off from a crime conference to knife all the passersby he could reach on London Bridge before being killed by a hero wielding a narwhal tusk. As a precocious 15 year old drop-out he’d gotten on terrorist watchlists for preaching hate with Anjem Chaudary’s al-Muhajiroun on the streets of Stoke-on-Trent. Released in 2018 after serving time for plotting to bomb the London stock exchange for Al Qaeda in Arabia, but ISIS claimed he died while running amok in their name...

Emergency laws were passed in February blocking the automatic release of terrorists behind bars after two attacks were carried out in a three-month period by extremists who had recently been freed from jail.

Also mentioned in the article:

Abdalraouf Abdallah

... Libyan-Brit paraplegic as a result of “Tripoli Brigade” jihading in Libya, he organized emigration to ISIS in Syria for the Manchester Libya crowd...

was jailed after he assisted his brother Mohammed Abdallah

...who realized the ambitions of his wheelchair-bound brother by becoming an ISIS sniper...

in travelling to Syria to join Islamic State. The extremist was recalled to prison for breaching the conditions of his licence earlier this year, and was visited in prison by Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi.

Jawad Akbar

...connected to Anjem Choudary's Al-Muhajiroun, their little Al Qaeda cell planned to set off fertilizer bombs across England...

is one of five terrorists who plotted to bomb the Bluewater shopping centre in Dartford, Kent, and the Ministry of Sound nightclub in hLondon in 2004.

Aras Hamid,

...leader of a three-man cell of Kurds connected to the Al Noor mosque in Birmingham...

who tried to leave the UK to join fighters with so-called Islamic State.

Since the introduction of the Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020, a total of 117 cases have been referred to the Parole Board. To date, 11 have been freed and 14 refused release from prison.

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Britain

Libyan Manchester Arena Bomber Had Strong Radicalising Influences

2021-12-11

[LIBYAREVIEW] The Manchester Arena bomber had a number of strong radicalising influences, including his father, and older brother. He also took extended leave from school to join the conflict in Libya, an academic expert noted. According to Matthew Wilkinson, a Moslem convert and academic expert on extremism, Salman Abedi had "what you would call the sort of royal flush" of radicalising influences.

Salman was 2nd Gen, along with his brothers, cousins, and friends. Both his parents (Ramadan Abedi and Samia Tabbal, who trained as a nuclear scientist. It isn’t comforting that while in England Papa Ramadan worked in airport security), along with their relatives and friends, were involved in jihad — the elder generation in the Al Qaeda-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s, the younger with ISIS.

"They’re all there ready to go, and the catalysts were very virulent and aggressive, so the whole package was there," he told the bombing inquiry.

Abedi’s journey began in 2013, four years before the attack, but Wilkinson believes there were "moments of opportunity" when it could have been disrupted.

Oh, you sweet summer child. But go on, if it makes you happy.

"If several of those characteristics are lacking, it’s possible that someone wasn’t nudged into that world view in the first place, and that a good catalyst may lead to a completely other world view and outcome."

He attributed the radicalization to a "long period of alienation with conventional English instruction."

His parents grew up in Libya. What’s their excuse?

Wilkinson stated that education is "one of the major mechanisms" through which children of ~~migrants~~ colonists colonists, as well as ~~migrants~~ colonists colonists themselves, integrate into society, enhance their career possibilities, and get to know people.

Abedi, on the other hand, had "extremely low attendance rates." He was sent to Burnage Media Arts College’s ’inclusion’ section for damaging school property, before being permanently expelled.

In 2009, his parents took Salman and Hashem

out of school on unofficial leave to travel to Libya for the summer, "so their engagement with mainstream schooling, and then further managed action did not materialise."

Teachers told the investigation that Salman and his younger brother Hashem, who helped create the bomb, couldn’t focus in class and were easily distracted.

Wilkinson said Abedi had a "repeated pattern" of beginning to engage in formal schooling and then "dropping away, disengaging, and slipping into delinquency and even violence very fast."

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Libyan Manchester Arena Bomber's Mother Pocketed thousands in Benefits

2021-11-01

[LIBYAREVIEW] The mother of the Manchester Arena jacket wallah received over £17,000 in benefits after leaving the country, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

Despite returning to Libya in October 2016, Samia Tabbal

... trained as a nuclear scientist, she and her husband Ramadan Abedi were up to their elbows in the Libyan Salafi jihadi movement. The entire English branch of the family were known wolves, including both Abedi parents, uncle and cousins, not to mention relatives back in the olde countrie. It isn’t comforting that while in England Papa Ramadan worked in airport security...

continued to receive almost £2,500 per month in housing and child benefits, as well as employment and tax credits, through her HSBC bank account.

The payments ended just days after her son, Salman Abedi

...one of the more notable members of the Manchester Libyan jihadi crowd. The parental generation ties back to the al-Qaeda-aligned Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s, while the kids pledged to the even more romantic ISIS. Not that it makes much difference in the end — the networks overlap personnel-wise, it’s just a matter of the name on the checking account paying their expenses...

, killed 22 people by detonating a suicide bomb at an Ariana Grande concert on May 22nd, 2017. It could have continued if the subsequent police investigation had not revealed that Tabbal and her husband, Ramadan Abedi, were back in Libya.

The Daily Mail added that official documents released to the Manchester Arena Inquiry disclose the 55-year-benefits old’s bonanza, which suggest she failed to notify HM Revenue & Customs that she was leaving the United Kingdom (UK).

Dhimmis gotta pay jizya, donchaknow. Why else have them?

According to a financial report, she received £692.32 a month in housing benefits for her rented home in Manchester’s Fallowfield neighborhood, as well as £61.80 in weekly child benefits and £302.76 in weekly work and tax credits.

The payments stopped nine days after the Arena incident, on May 31st, 2017.

Tabbal’s debit card was used by her sons to buy components for the deadly bomb, according to a jury in the Old Bailey trial of Salman Abedi’s younger brother,

Hashem Abedi,

, 24, earlier this year.

Hashem was convicted of 22 charges of murder and sentenced to at least 55 years in prison.

There is no proof that Tabbal was aware of or participated in the Arena attack, but the investigation has heard that she voiced sympathy on Facebook for the Libyan February 17th Martyrs Brigade

...an Islamist militia that had previously guarded Americans in Benghazi before being replaced by Blue Mountain ...

and the Libya Shield
...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs...
Force
...paramilitary organization formed in 2012 out of anti-Gaddafi armed groups spread throughout Libya. The Libyan parliament now designates much of the Libya Shield Force as terrorist. Elements of the Libya Shield Force were identified as linked to al-Qaeda as early as 2012....
, both of which are affiliated to Al Qaeda.

Tabbal and Ramadan Abedi are said to be hiding out on the outskirts of Libya’s capital, Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, and are being watched.

Although he has denied having any links to Islamist terrorist organizations or knowledge of the incident, a senior MI5 officer told the inquiry last week that Ramadan was "likely" to have affected his son’s turban beliefs.

Whoa! That kind of insight is worthy of the big bucks.

The couple and their oldest son Ismail,

...he may not have been directly involved in that attack, but he raised enough eyebrows in the local Muslim community that they reported him to the counter-terrorism unit even before Middle Bro went kaboom...

who flew out of the UK on August 29th apparently to avoid giving evidence to the inquiry, have refused to assist the authorities.

The dossier of financial documents also show that Salman Abedi received £10,331 into two bank accounts between October 2016 and May 2017, including £4,263.08 from the Student Loans Company that he did not qualify for because he had quit his business studies course at Salford University.

Two separate deposits totaling £3,200 were made by unknown sources into his RBS account in January 2017, shortly before the bank closed it over suspicions about fraud.

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Britain

ISIS bride Shamima Begum says she'd 'rather die' than rejoin group

2021-09-16

[NYPOST] ISIS bride Shamima Begum

...along with her two best friends from school (Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana) she fell in love with the romantic idea of being a jihadi wife and brood mare for the new Muslim nation, seduced by messages from early adopter Pak-Scot Aqsa Mahmood. Before running off to Syria they recruited among their English schoolmates for the ISIS cause. Umm Three-Dead-Babies thrived in her chosen environment, marrying a Dutch convert and being promoted to enforcer in the women’s branch of the ISIS morality police before it all fell apart. Now stuck in an SDF camp in Syria, she’s doing her taqiyya best to seduce the Brits into bringing her back home for round two....

apologized for joining the terror group and appealed to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
to allow her to return to the UK, saying in her first live TV interview she’d "rather die" than go back to the jihadists.

"I know there are some people, no matter what I say or what I do, they will not believe that I have changed, believe that I want to help," she told ITV’s "Good Morning Britannia."

"But for those who have even a drop of mercy and compassion and empathy in their hearts, I tell you from the bottom of my heart that I regret every, every decision I’ve made since I stepped into Syria and I will live with it for the rest of my life," she said.

Begum was just 15 when she and two classmates set off for Syria to join ISIS. She has said she married an bad boy from the Netherlands and had three children, all of whom have died.

Now 22 and living in a refugee camp in Syria, Begum has sought to return home, but the British government revoked her citizenship on national security grounds in 2019 and she has fought unsuccessfully to have her passport restored.

Begum, who wore lipstick, a gray tank top and a Nike baseball cap for the interview, said she had been misled when she went to Syria.

Addressing the prime minister, she offered a critical message: "I think I could very much help you in your fight against terrorism because you clearly don’t know what you’re doing."

"I did not want to hurt anyone in Syria or anywhere else in the world. At the time I did not know it was a death cult, I thought it was an Islamic community," she said.

Sajid Javid, who as home secretary made the decision to revoke Begum’s citizenship, stood by his choice, telling ITV News on Wednesday that it was "absolutely the right decision."

"When I saw what I did and the information I received from my advisers and our intelligence agencies, in the end it was a very clear-cut decision," Javid said.

Begum acknowledged that it might be difficult for some Britons to forgive her, as they have lived "in fear of ISIS and lost loved ones," but noted that "I have also lived in fear of ISIS and also lost loved ones."

Begum has described the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing — in which 22 people died when jihadist Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb — as a "retaliation" for military strikes on ISIS strongholds.

"I do not believe that one evil justifies another evil. I don’t think that women and kiddies should be killed for other people’s motives and for other people’s agendas," she said.

Begum added that when she initially made the remarks, she did not know that women and kiddies were hurt in Manchester.

"I did not know about the Manchester bombing when I was asked. I did not know that people were killed, I did not know that women and kiddies were hurt because of it," she said.

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Security guard says he didn’t confront 2017 Manchester bomber for fear of being called racist

2021-06-18

[IsraelTimes] Security teams at Britannia’s Manchester Arena "should have prevented or minimized" the impact of the 2017 terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert that killed 22 people, a public inquiry finds.

The suicide kaboom, as concert-goers were leaving the show, was perpetrated by 22-year-old Salman Abedi,

a Mancunian of Libyan descent.

In a report examining security measures at the venue in northwest England, inquiry chairman John Saunders says Arena operator SMG, security provider Showsec and British Transport Police all missed opportunities to either prevent or mitigate the attack, which took place on May 22, 2017.

"The security arrangements for the Manchester Arena should have prevented or minimized the devastating impact of the attack," he writes.

"Salman Abedi should have been identified on 22nd May 2017 as a threat by those responsible for the security of Arena and a disruptive intervention undertaken.

"Had that occurred, I consider it likely that Salman Abedi would still have detonated his device, but the loss of life and injury is highly likely to have been less," he adds.

The inquiry had heard that an officer from British Transport Police was supposed to be present in the foyer of the arena at the end of the show, where the bomb exploded, but nobody was there.

A Showsec security guard also told the inquiry that he had a "bad feeling" when he saw Abedi around five minutes before the attack, but did not approach him for fear of being called a racist.

"I felt unsure about what to do," says Kyle Lawler, who was aged 18 at the time of the attack. "I did not want people to think I am stereotyping him because of his race."

Lawler says he had tried to radio the control room, but that he gave up as he could not get through due to radio traffic.

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Court Refuses to Grant Immunity to Manchester Arena Bomber's Brother

2021-06-14

[LIBYAREVIEW] A court declined to grant the older brother of the Manchester Arena bomber immunity from prosecution if he testifies in front of a public inquiry, according to The Independent.

Ismail Abedi denies knowing about or being involved in the attack on May 22nd, 2017, but has so far refused to participate with the investigation, citing legal privilege against self-incrimination.

He may not have been directly involved in that attack, but he raised enough eyebrows in the local Muslim community that they reported him to the counter-terrorism unit even before Middle Bro went kaboom. And of course the entire English branch of the family were known wolves, including both Abedi parents, uncle and cousins, not to mention relatives back in the olde countrie. Anything he says could get him and them all in a great deal of trouble.

Salman Abedi,

his brother, went kaboom! a suicide bomb amid a crowd of Ariana Grande fans and relatives waiting to pick them up, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds more.

Hashem Abedi,

another brother, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the ISIS-claimed attack.

Ismail Abedi requested that the public inquiry obtain assurance from the attorney general that any evidence he provides will not be used against him in future criminal cases.

In his ruling, Sir John said allowing immunity to get Abedi to co-operate did not outweigh the potential effects on the administration of justice.

"If as a result of an undertaking from the Attorney General, the applicant was to disclose material to the inquiry which provided evidence to justify charges of murder or conspiracy to murder, then he could avoid trial for 22 murders and causing serious injury to many more," he said.

"While less serious, if he were to disclose material... which evidenced a failure by him to disclose information to the authorities which could have prevented the bombing happening, a failure to prosecute would be considered by many to be a considerable affront to justice."

Abedi is expected to be served with a legal notice soon which will "require" his attendance in person at the inquiry and while he will be entitled not to answer questions on the grounds of self-incrimination, he will have to justify why and on what grounds he is refusing to answer.

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Brother of Manchester Arena’s Bomber Admits Involvement in Terror Attack

2020-12-09

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Brother of Manchester Arena’s Bomber Admits Involvement in Terror Attack

He had previously pleaded not guilty earlier this year to 22 counts of murder, attempted murder, and plotting to cause an explosion likely to endanger life...#Libya #LibyaReview https://t.co/yi3OLspjUi
— Libya Review (@LibyaReview) December 8, 2020

On Monday, Hashem Abedi,

Salman Abedi’s baby bro and bomb assistant, he was arrested in Tripoli while pretending to have nothing to do with that messy nonsense back home. Scion of the Manchester Libyan jihadi crowd. The parental generation ties back to the al-Qaeda-aligned Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s, while the kids pledged to the even more romantic ISIS. Not that it makes much difference — the networks overlap personnel-wise, it’s just a matter of the name on the checking account paying their expenses. And then, after he snubbed the sentencing hearing, the unbelievers went and sentenced him anyway...

the brother of the Manchester Arena’s bomber Salman Abedi, admitted for the first time his involvement in planning the 2017 attack, which killed 22 people.

Abedi, 23, made the admission in October, while in prison, as he was visited by two members of the public inquiry’s legal team, according to the Telegraph.

He had previously pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
earlier this year to 22 counts of murder, attempted murder, and plotting to cause a kaboom likely to endanger life. He did not give evidence at the Old Bailey but provided a prepared defence statement in which he denied involvement, claimed to have been "shocked" by what his brother had done, and said he did not hold holy warrior views.

He went on to be convicted by a jury of all the offenses and was given 24 life sentences in August, with a minimum term of 55 years before being eligible for parole.

On 22 October, Abedi was interviewed in prison where he admitted he played "a full and knowing part", the inquiry was told.

Abedi had been in Libya at the time of the attack but was suspected by the police of having played an integral part in the planning and preparation of the bombing. He was eventually extradited by the authorities in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, despite denying any knowledge or involvement in the attack. His admission was confirmed by Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Barraclough of the Greater Manchester Police, who was the senior investigating officer in the attack probe.

In a statement made to the police following his arrest, he insisted he had no involvement in his brother’s activities. He told officers, "During the last two years I have been held in Libya by a militia and subjected to torture. It has been a difficult time for me for a number of reasons."

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Jailed Friend of Manchester Arena Bomber Soon To Be Released

2020-11-27

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Jailed Friend of Manchester Arena Bomber Soon To Be Released

Abedi detonated a bomb after an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds...#Libya #LibyaReview https://t.co/2V8xx7NAQu
— Libya Review (@LibyaReview) November 26, 2020

A close friend of the Manchester Arena bomber who refused to cooperate with the UK public inquiry into the attack is set to be released on parole this week, according to The Guardian.

British national Abdel-Raouf Abdallah

...in our archives as Abdal Raouf Abdallah, 27, the wheelchair-bound Libyan-Brit was left paralyzed after being shot in 2011 during that nonsense in Libya. The convicted ISIS recruiter was Salman Abedi’s BFF, according to phone records and prison visits...

befriended Salman Abedi and visited him in jail in the months before the attack. He visited Abedi in prison twice and the pair were in regular telephone contact discussing martyrdom, the inquiry was told.

Abedi detonated a bomb after an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds.

Abdullah has so far refused to speak to the inquiry about his links with Abedi. He is claiming legal privilege by refusing to answer questions that may incriminate himself, the hearing was told.

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LIFG's Sami Al-Saadi Condemns Any Revolt Against Turkey's Neo-Ottomans

2020-11-16

[ALMARSAD.CO] In response to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
’s Council of Senior Scholars classifying the Moslem Brüderbund as a terrorist group that does not represent Islam, the former leader of the terrorist group Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG),

...the highly connected, Al Qaeda-aligned group in Libya in the 1990s that was coddled by the West because they plotted to stand up against Colonel Khadaffy. One tentacle of the octopus settled in Manchester, England, where they parented the ISIS-aligned Manchester Arena jacket wallah plot of Salman Abedi and his circle, among others...

Sami al-Saadi posted on his Facebook official account on Saturday: "Saudi Arabia deserves to be called the ’Khawarij’ of the modern era for its conspiracy against the Ottomans in response to British desires."

AL-SAADI STUCK IN LIFG’S NEO-OTTOMAN LOYALTY

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Six Libyans Wanted by British Police over Manchester Arena Bombing

2020-11-07

[LIBYAREVIEW] Six Libyans are wanted for questioning by the British Police investigating the Manchester Arena bombing, according to the BBC.The parents of the Libyan brothers responsible for the attack are both suspects, as are two associates.

One of the associates, who was arrested following the attack, was able to flee the UK, despite remaining a suspect and being charged with other offences. Two further men are of interest to the police but have not yet been questioned.

Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds. His younger brother Hashem, who was central to the attack, was enjugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
this year after being convicted of murder.

Ramadan Abedi, father of the attackers, is wanted for questioning. This is after his fingerprints were found inside a car used by the brothers, to store explosives and bomb-making material.

The vehicle was owned by the brothers for two days, before travelling to Libya with their father in April 2017.

While in Libya, the car was parked outside the property of an associate, named Elyas Elmehdi, who is one of the four outstanding suspects.

On arrival back in the UK in May 2017, days before the attack, Salman returned to the vehicle to collect material from it. Police also wishes to speak to Samia Tabbal, the mother of Salman and Hashem, who is also currently in Libya.

Mohammed Soliman is another suspect. He purchased a bomb-making chemical for the brothers, but left Manchester for Libya in April 2017. The two other people that police want to trace are Majdi Alamari, who lives in Libya, and Anas Abuhdaima, whose location is unknown but is believed to be somewhere in the UK.

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Manchester suicide bomber attended anti-Netanyahu protest 2 years earlier

2020-10-11

[IsraelTimes] Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017, was already on MI5’s radar when he joined demo by Corbyn-backed group against London visit by Israeli PM.

By your friends do we know you. Congrats, NeverNetanyahuers. Love what you’ve done with yourselves.

The terrorist who killed 22 people in a suicide kaboom in the British city of Manchester in 2017 had attended a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to London two years prior to the attack, the Daily Mail reported Friday.

Salman Abedi attended the September 2015 protest organized by the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign, an organization backed by former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

There was no suggestion that Abedi was formally linked to either the PSC or Corbyn.

According to the report, Abedi was among a group who traveled from Manchester to attend the Downing Street rally before moving to a second protest outside the United Arab Emirates embassy. The newspaper said the second protest was organized by a British group that supported a Libyan militia with ties to al-Qaeda’s Ansar al-Sharia
...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet...
Two years later, inspired by Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, Abedi detonated explosives among crowds of mostly young people leaving an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.

A public inquiry heard last month that Abedi was associated with six MI5 "subjects of interest" and visited an incarcerated terrorist twice prior to the attack.

According to the Guardian, Abedi had himself been made a "subject of interest," but his file was closed in July 2014 — a year before the anti-Netanyahu protest and three years before the Manchester attack.

In August, Abedi’s brother Hashem, 23, was tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
for life for playing an "integral part" in the attack. He was convicted of murder, attempted murder, and conspiring to cause explosions at a trial that ended in March.

The court heard he was in Libya when the attack took place on May 22, 2017, but helped his brother plan it for several weeks, including by obtaining chemicals for the homemade bomb.

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