- [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The FBI told MI5 that Abedi was planning an attack in Britain in January this year
- But they thought he might be planning to assassinate a key political figure
- MI5 investigated but 'nothing came of it' and he slipped down the pecking order
- It will pile more pressure on MI5 to reveal when and how they knew of Abedi
| And a missed article from the 26th: |
[DailyMail] The bomber travelled to fight on the frontline during the 2011 Arab Spring to topple dictator Muammar Qadaffy
...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him...
alongside his father Ramadan Abedi, a 51-year-old airport security guard with links to Al Qaeda.
Ramadan was one of the men from the North West in Libya who called themselves the 'Manchester Fighters'.
One of the men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted three years ago of helping jihadist recruits to travel to Syria and Iraq to fight for the terrorists. He had dropped out of college in Manchester and joined the western-backed uprising in Libya in 2011 at the age of 17.
The second man was charged with terrorism offences and spent time in prison on remand before the prosecution offered no evidence. His father was sanctioned by the US more than a decade ago for financing the LIFG.
A friend of Salman's father, Akram Ramadan, 49, said: 'A lot of dads went to fight Qadaffy in 2011.
'We went and fought together, we were really known, our unit fighting in the hills was called the Manchester Fighters.'
| And from Breitbart: |
27 May
Government sources have confessed that there are at least 23,000 jihadists in Britain – more than seven times higher than previously revealed. Until recently, the public had been led to believe there were around 3,000 known jihadists in Britain, with 500 being subject to
MI5 Had ‘Open Door’ Policy to Manchester Youths Fighting in Libya, Some Joined Islamic State
27 May
UK authorities adopted an “open door” policy for Libyan heritage Britons, including associates of the Manchester bomber, returning to the war-torn nation to fight alongside jihadist and al-Qaeda-linked groups.
Colonel Richard Kemp: Time to Throw out Every Islamist on Terror Watch List
27 May
Colonel Richard Kemp, a former member of the COBRA committee, Joint Intelligence Committee, and commander of the British Task Force in Helmand, Afghanistan, has called on the Government to deport or intern all foreign nationals on the terror watch list.
