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Salman Abedi’s family arrested as police swoop on terrorist ‘network’

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The father and two brothers of the Manchester suicide bomber have been arrested over their alleged links to Islamic State.

 

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Salman Abedi’s younger brother Hashem, who was detained in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday night, was allegedly planning to carry out a separate terrorist attack there.

 

“We have evidence that he is involved in Daesh (Islamic State) with his brother. We have been following him for more than one month and a half,” a spokesman for a local counter-terrorism force told Reuters.

 

“He was in contact with his brother and he knew about the attack.”

 

The Tripoli-based anti-terrorism Special Deterrent Force said Hashem, 20, confessed that both he and Salman were a part of IS.

 

Salman’s father, Ramadan Abedi, was also detained by Libyan authorities on Wednesday.

 

He was taken away by a masked gunman while professing his son’s innocence in a TV interview, UK newspaper the Express reported.

 

The arrests in Tripoli follow the earlier arrest of Salman’s other brother Ismail, 23, in Manchester.

 

Meanwhile, a desperate search is on for the man who built the nail bomb that killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on Monday night, as fears grow that a second attack is imminent.

 

Salman Abedi was a “mule” used to carry out the attack and the bomb maker is still at large, a police source told the Manchester Evening News.

 

“They don’t waste bomb makers,” he said.

 

“The reason we have gone to critical is because he is still out there and the fear is that he will strike again before they get caught.”

 

British Prime Minister Theresa May has raised the country’s terror threat level from “severe” to “critical”, meaning authorities expect another attack is imminent.

 

Greater Manchester Police have declined to comment on the search for the bombmaker officially, but confirmed that Mr Abedi did not act alone in carrying out his deadly attack on concertgoers after the US pop stars performance in the city in England’s northeast.

 

Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said the level of police activity in the investigation was “intense and is continuing at a fast pace”.

 

“I think it’s very clear that this is a network that we are investigating and, as I said, it continued at a pace, there’s extensive investigations going on and activity taking place across Greater Manchester as we speak,” he told reporters on Wednesday afternoon.

 

The Manchester bomber returned from a mysterious trip just days before he detonated the bomb inside Manchester Arena.

 

It has been revealed that Salman Abedi took a three-week trip to Libya, where his parents hail from, and then carried out the terrorist attack just days after he returned to Manchester.

 

Police and intelligence officers are now investigating why the suicide bomber took the trip and who he met there.

 

There are also reports in the British media that Mr Abedi recently visited Syria, a hot bed for Islamic State.

 

The new details come after police confirmed that Mr Abedi, 22, was not a lone-wolf terrorist but was, in fact, part of a “network”.

 

Mr Abedi died in Monday night’s attack, but police have since arrested six people in connection with the atrocity. Among them is Mr Abedi’s brother, Ismail, 23.

 

A woman was arrested late Wednesday after an armed raid on a block of flats in the Manchester suburb of Blackley.

 

Cops also picked up a man that afternoon in the suburb of Wigan carrying a suspicious package.

 

Earlier in the day, heavily armed police swooped on an apartment block in Manchester’s city centre as part of their efforts to establish who may have helped Mr Abedi carry out the horrific bombing.

 

Police blocked off Granby Row and temporarily shut down a railway line as dozens of officers in body armour carrying machine guns raided the apartment block.

 

Witnesses told CNN they heard a loud bang as the police descended, which was a controlled explosion that allowed officers to gain access to the property.

 

Residents of the apartment block were evacuated, the Manchester Evening News reported.

 

Neighbours told the paper that it was believed the flat was being rented out to people via the website Airbnb.

 

IS has claimed responsibility for Monday night’s attack.

 

British Home Secretary Amber Rudd said Mr Abedi was known to British intelligence services and police “up to a point”.

 

But France’s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb went further, telling French TV that intelligence operatives believed he had travelled to Syria and had “proven” links with IS.

 

“All of a sudden he travelled to Libya and then most likely to Syria, became radicalised and decided to commit this attack,” he told BFM television.

 

Before his arrest in Libya, the father of the Manchester suicide bomber defended his son, insisting he is innocent of carrying out the attack.

 

“We don’t believe in killing innocents. This is not us,” Ramadan Abedi told the Associated Press from Tripoli, Libya.

 

“We aren’t the ones who blow up ourselves among innocents. We go to mosques. We recite Koran, but not that.”

 

He said his son sounded “normal” when they spoke five days ago and said his son was planning a visit to Saudi Arabia.

 

“There was nothing worrying at all until two days ago (when) I heard the news that they suspect he was the bomber,” he said.

 

Mr Abedi senior denied that his son had ever been to Syria.

 

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Tiddy-bits:

“We have evidence that he is involved in Daesh (Islamic State) with his brother. We have been following him for more than one month and a half,” a spokesman for a local counter-terrorism force told Reuters.

 

And none of these warning signs of the attack popped up on anyone's radar? What does this matter now and after the fact? I understand following a paper trail and trying to find connections, but when there's obvious harm about to be done, why would you watch and wait?


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1 minute ago, Krazychic said:

 

When will they learn that they are not cared for in any way, shape or form but USED, used for nothing more than their stupidity.

 

Never.

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I agree with this guy > http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/24/dakota-meyer-medal-of-honor-recipient-urges-donald/

 

Sgt. Meyer answered in the affirmative when asked if his wording was a slight at Mr. Obama’s tenure as commander in chief.

“He was too busy worrying about everyone thought of him instead of doing what was right. I think we’ve seen that,” Sgt. Meyer said. “We have to stop fighting wars with politics.”

 

Kill em all. http://isis.liveuamap.com/

 

 

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