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Libyan Manchester Arena Bomber's Mother Pocketed thousands in Benefits

2021-11-01

[LIBYAREVIEW] The mother of the Manchester Arena jacket wallah received over £17,000 in benefits after leaving the country, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

Despite returning to Libya in October 2016, Samia Tabbal

... trained as a nuclear scientist, she and her husband Ramadan Abedi were up to their elbows in the Libyan Salafi jihadi movement. The entire English branch of the family were known wolves, including both Abedi parents, uncle and cousins, not to mention relatives back in the olde countrie. It isn’t comforting that while in England Papa Ramadan worked in airport security...

continued to receive almost £2,500 per month in housing and child benefits, as well as employment and tax credits, through her HSBC bank account.

The payments ended just days after her son, 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...

, killed 22 people by detonating a suicide bomb at an Ariana Grande concert on May 22nd, 2017. It could have continued if the subsequent police investigation had not revealed that Tabbal and her husband, Ramadan Abedi, were back in Libya.

The Daily Mail added that official documents released to the Manchester Arena Inquiry disclose the 55-year-benefits old’s bonanza, which suggest she failed to notify HM Revenue & Customs that she was leaving the United Kingdom (UK).

Dhimmis gotta pay jizya, donchaknow. Why else have them?

According to a financial report, she received £692.32 a month in housing benefits for her rented home in Manchester’s Fallowfield neighborhood, as well as £61.80 in weekly child benefits and £302.76 in weekly work and tax credits.

The payments stopped nine days after the Arena incident, on May 31st, 2017.

Tabbal’s debit card was used by her sons to buy components for the deadly bomb, according to a jury in the Old Bailey trial of Salman Abedi’s younger brother,

Hashem Abedi,

... on occasion spelt Hashim al-Obeidi, Salman Abedi’s baby bro and bomb assistant was arrested in Tripoli while pretending to have nothing to do with that messy nonsense back home. And then, after he snubbed the sentencing hearing, the unbelievers went and sentenced him anyway...

, 24, earlier this year.

Hashem was convicted of 22 charges of murder and sentenced to at least 55 years in prison.

There is no proof that Tabbal was aware of or participated in the Arena attack, but the investigation has heard that she voiced sympathy on Facebook for the Libyan February 17th Martyrs Brigade

...an Islamist militia that had previously guarded Americans in Benghazi before being replaced by Blue Mountain ...

and the Libya Shield
...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs...
Force
...paramilitary organization formed in 2012 out of anti-Gaddafi armed groups spread throughout Libya. The Libyan parliament now designates much of the Libya Shield Force as terrorist. Elements of the Libya Shield Force were identified as linked to al-Qaeda as early as 2012....
, both of which are affiliated to Al Qaeda.

Tabbal and Ramadan Abedi are said to be hiding out on the outskirts of Libya’s capital, Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, and are being watched.

Although he has denied having any links to Islamist terrorist organizations or knowledge of the incident, a senior MI5 officer told the inquiry last week that Ramadan was "likely" to have affected his son’s turban beliefs.

Whoa! That kind of insight is worthy of the big bucks.

The couple and their oldest son Ismail,

...he may not have been directly involved in that attack, but he raised enough eyebrows in the local Muslim community that they reported him to the counter-terrorism unit even before Middle Bro went kaboom...

who flew out of the UK on August 29th apparently to avoid giving evidence to the inquiry, have refused to assist the authorities.

The dossier of financial documents also show that Salman Abedi received £10,331 into two bank accounts between October 2016 and May 2017, including £4,263.08 from the Student Loans Company that he did not qualify for because he had quit his business studies course at Salford University.

Two separate deposits totaling £3,200 were made by unknown sources into his RBS account in January 2017, shortly before the bank closed it over suspicions about fraud.

Posted by:Fred

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