[DailyMail] - Police have concluded that Salman Abedi mostly acted alone in the days before launching terror attack
- They still need to find blue suitcase which he was seen with hours before he carried out attack on May 22
- Two men aged 20 and 24 from the Fallowfield area and another man aged 37 from the Blackley area arrested in connection with the attack were released without charge; 11 are still in custody
In the four days between landing in the UK and carrying out the atrocity that killed 22 people, Salman Abedi bought most of the components and built the bomb by himself.
Police said they could not rule out that the Libyan was part of a wider network, but after seven days of investigation they concluded he mostly acted alone.
Meanwhile it emerged on Monday that three Malaysian students were detained for questioning amid fears Abedi used their address as part of his plot. The students, Aliff Farhan, Muhd Helmi and a third man, were released without charge on Monday night, The Times reported. It is thought the jacket wallah may have exploited the students and tried to use their accommodation as a place to stay, to avoid detection by the security services.
he revelations come as police said yesterday that suspects tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
over the Manchester Arena bombing could face life in jail under charges of conspiracy to murder.
Officers also revealed details of bomber Abedi's past as a petty criminal who was investigated for theft, assault and handling stolen goods. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
Abedi had not featured in Prevent, the Government's voluntary counter-radicalisation scheme.
Greater Manchester Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said he hoped to bring conspiracy to murder charges which carry a maximum sentence of life in jail.
State Handouts, Student Loan Paid For Manchester Bomber’s Terror Plot
29 May
[Breitbart] A combination of government benefits and low-interest loans meant to pay for further education were used to fund the terror plot of Manchester killer Salman Abedi, police believe.
Police are investigating the finances of university dropout turned Islamist killer Salman Abedi, and was in receipt of thousands of pounds of government money before the attack, reports the Daily Telegraph. Police sources told the paper the killer even got government handouts while he was abroad in Libya, where it is believed he was being trained in bomb making.
The report claims Abedi collected £7,000 from the UK government owned and run Student Loans Company in 2015 when commencing a course at Salford, which he dropped out of shortly after. Despite not continuing with studies, the Libyan heritage British passport holder received another £7,000 instalment of his student loan the following year.
The loans are given out to undergraduate students in the United Kingdom and repaid once graduates reach a certain level of income. It is estimated some two-thirds of UK students will never earn enough in their lifetimes to repay the cost of their enhanced education.
While it is not clear how many and what benefits the killer was receiving from the government, it is reported that despite never having held down a job Abedi was able to rent three residential properties in Manchester, purchase the components for his bomb, and regularly travel abroad -- it is now believed for terror training camps.
