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| Chemical engineering student and his brother held over the Manchester terror attack | |
| 2017-05-30 | |
| [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A chemical engineering student and his brother were being held over the Manchester terror attack last night as Amber Rudd admitted that members of the bomber’s network could still be at large. University students Mohamed and Yahya Werfalli were arrested in the early hours of Saturday - hours before Theresa May lowered the UK’s terror threat level from critical to severe. The brothers, who like other suspects are British born but of Libyan heritage, are believed to move in the same friendship circles as the Manchester bomber Salman Abedi, also 22. Yahya is listed on Facebook as a friend of the bomber’s brother, Hashim, 20. Yesterday, armed police raided a home in the Moss Side area of Manchester after a controlled explosion, while two other men, 25 and 19, were arrested later in the day. Early on Monday morning, Sussex Police announced that a 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the attack, making him the 16th arrest. Greater Manchester Police also confirmed searches were conducted overnight at addresses in Chester, Cheshire and Whalley Range, in south Manchester, as part of the ongoing investigation. Did Manchester bomber have SECOND device in a suitcase? Police appeal for information on blue luggage Salman Abedi was seen with on the day of his attack and warn people NOT to approach it [DailyMail]
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The rest of the family, including Zuhair, temporarily returned to Libya and let out their home to tenants. Pictures on social media showed Abdul posing with Abedi – and Zuhair with the bomber’s brother Hashim, 20, who is in custody in Libya on suspicion of being part of the same jihadi cell. Loqman Nassrat, 22, who lives in Chester and also attends the city’s university, confirmed he knew Salman Abedi when he was ‘younger’. He said: ‘The Libyan community in Manchester don’t believe in any way that he was by himself, he had not got the capability. He is not smart enough.' 'Trainee Libyan pilot', 23, is 16th suspect arrested in connection with Manchester concert bombing [DailyMail]
Houses in Manchester and Chester were also searched overnight by counter-terrorism units while officers are also searching a landfill site in Pilsworth, near Bury. Local councillor Kevin Boram said he was 'shocked' at the arrest in the small seaside town of Shoreham. He said he believed the man was arrested in a flat above a parade of shops in the town centre but did not witness it himself. 'We're a very close-knit community. I was very surprised. If anything we were pulled closer together by the Shoreham air crash. I'm a bit shocked that we've been associated with Manchester. It's a great shame for our community.' But the area has previously been linked to terror. The Deghayes family have lost three sons who died after they went to fight in Syria, while a fourth son has also travelled there to fight against Bashar Assad's government. The Deghayes brothers are the nephews of Omar Deghayes, who was held by the United States as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay detention camp between 2002 and 2007 after he was arrested in Pakistan. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Notice he went back to England to have his jihad wounds treated. More evidence for my belief that "refugees" are just using the West for R&R between rounds of tribal warfare. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2017-05-30 12:00 |
| #2 He won't last that long, Richard. 'Accident in the neighborhood' and all that. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-05-30 10:19 |
| #1 Pity this is what it takes to get the UK cops' attention. BTW, if a Muslim drops the dime on another Muslim, can he (the first one) be prosecuted for hate speech and islamophobia? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2017-05-30 06:46 |