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2017-05-25 Britain

Manchester Arena attack, day 4: more raids, more arrests, no more info shared with leaky U.S.

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Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-25 03:54|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Earlier, Abdel-Basit Haroun, a former security official in Libya, told The Associated Press that he personally knew Ramadan Abedi [father of bomber] and that the elder Abedi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s. The group had links to Al Qaeda.

Although the LIFG disbanded, Haroun said the father belongs to the Salafi Jihadi movement, the most extreme sect of Salafism and from which Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group hail. Haroun added that Abedi, also known as Abu Ismail, had returned to the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

The LIFG was founded in 1995, and was involved in attempts to assassinate then-Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi as well as violent clashes with Benghazi police. In 2002, a senior LIFG commander, Anas al-Libi, who also was a companion of Al Qaeda founder Usama bin Laden, was detained by U.S. forces for his role in the 1998 bombings of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200 people.
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Mr. Ramadan Abedi aka Abu Ismail has a very interesting history and record of prior terrorist connections, to include a desire to see Moammar Qaddafi removed from power.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-25 04:22|| 2017-05-25 04:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, you remember them. So called 'moderates' weren't they ?

Washington’s Al Qaeda (Libyan Islamic Fighting Group LIFG) Ally Now Leading ISIS in Libya

Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-25 04:28|| 2017-05-25 04:28|| Front Page Top

#3 I'll bet Papa was a "cultured" "source" for MI6, as was thus allowed into this country. You fucked up big style there.

Who's getting the sack?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-25 04:29|| 2017-05-25 04:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Little wonder the intelligence sharing has suddenly stopped. This shi* is blowing back on everyone.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-25 04:31|| 2017-05-25 04:31|| Front Page Top

#5 A storm in a tea cup - which will be forgotten in a few days. And will have no influence whatsoever on UK emigration policies - wanna bet?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-25 05:20|| 2017-05-25 05:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Hussein left in place a bureaucratic apparatus with a mission to undermine the "Five Eyes" process on favor of terrorism. Obama has a hatred for those participants. This undermines access to critical national security international intelligence that will result in loss of innocent life in the war on terror. It is imperative that these very dangerous Obama people be apprehended, prosecuted and the death penalty be rendered to those convicted.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-05-25 07:42|| 2017-05-25 07:42|| Front Page Top

#7 We've got to protect our phony-baloney jobs, gentlemen.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-05-25 07:44|| 2017-05-25 07:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Same intel leakers from Russian collaboration Brennan/NYT faux news, et al?

Be nice to see them exposed and hung by UK.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-25 09:58|| 2017-05-25 09:58|| Front Page Top

#9 I prefer to see them hanged by the UK

Posted by GrammarNazi 2017-05-25 11:59|| 2017-05-25 11:59|| Front Page Top

#10 The proper terminology is 'hanged by the neck', O Pedantic One.

Posted by Pappy 2017-05-25 12:34|| 2017-05-25 12:34|| Front Page Top

#11 off the pile from yesterday, presuming now the impripatur...

In England when the world was young
And English yet the Angles' tongue,
When angry gits misdid, they swung,
For hangmen hanged, and felons hung.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-05-25 14:34|| 2017-05-25 14:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Well played, Zenobia F. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-25 18:32|| 2017-05-25 18:32|| Front Page Top

#13 I think poetry should be an Olympic sport.

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