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MI5 'alerted to Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi 18 TIMES before suicide attack killed 22 concertgoers' inquest hears - as top lawyer warns terrorist brothers 'did not act alone'

2020-10-01

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

MI5 received alerts about terrorist 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...

18 times over seven years

In May 2017 he killed 22 people at the Manchester Arena with a suicide bomb

Also identified associating with six other security service 'subjects of interest' including Abdal Raouf Abdallah
...left paralyzed after being shot in 2011 during the nonsense in Libya, the convicted ISIS recruiter was our lad’s BFF, according to phone records and prison visits...
Comes amid warning Abedi brothers 'did not act alone' and others knew of plot

Posted by:Skidmark

#4 Mike Flynn used to say "you must get the SOB's before the boom."

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-10-01 16:48

#3 One of the problems with treating terrorism as a criminal matter - you have to wait for the perps to act. That may work for bank robberies, but when it comes to mass murder, being a bit more pro-active just might be a good thing.

Posted by: SteveS 2020-10-01 16:04

#2 The Russians evidently warned the US about the two Boston pressure cooker scum bags. Sigh....

Posted by: Clem 2020-10-01 13:58

#1 Following the FBI model?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-10-01 11:03

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