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Manchester Bomb Suspect Had Terrorism Training Abroad: Source (And Family Reported Him)
MSN ^ | 5/23/2017 | Multiple

Posted on 05/23/2017 8:24:20 PM PDT by dirtboy

MANCHESTER, England — Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old British man believed to have killed 22 people in a suicide-bomb attack, had ties to al Qaeda and had received terrorist training abroad, a U.S. intelligence official told NBC News on Tuesday as the United Kingdom raised its terrorist threat level to the highest category.

The U.S. intelligence official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, said Abedi, whose family is of Libyan descent, was identified by a bank card found in his pocket at the scene of the explosion after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena. The identification was confirmed by facial recognition technology, the official said.

Abedi had traveled to Libya within the last 12 months, one of multiple countries he had visited, the official said. While he had "clear ties to al Qaeda," the official said, Abedi could have had connections to other groups.

Members of his own family had even informed on him in the past, telling British authorities that he was dangerous, according to the intelligence official.

The U.S. official said Abedi's bomb was "big and sophisticated," using materials hard to obtain in Britain — meaning "it's almost impossible to see he didn't have help."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: europejihad; immigration; islam; muslims; obamalegacy; refugees; ukterrorattack
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I am not surprised, but I am still sickened by this.
1 posted on 05/23/2017 8:24:20 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

If anyone claims to be shocked by this news...


2 posted on 05/23/2017 8:27:46 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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“Abedi had traveled to Libya within the last 12 months”

Thank you Hillary and obama.


3 posted on 05/23/2017 8:27:55 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: dirtboy

Hillary and Barack’s senseless destruction of Libya is looking worse and worse.

Why is no one connecting those dots?????


4 posted on 05/23/2017 8:30:19 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

His own family reported him. That goes beyond when the Russians reported the eventual Boston bombers. We say the Muslims need to report extremists in their midst. But this shows the authorities are so brain-dead, they don’t react when that happens.


5 posted on 05/23/2017 8:30:22 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: PGR88

I’ve noticed Dim propagandists never, ever talk about Libya. They breezily skip over it when blaming Bush for Iraq, etc.


6 posted on 05/23/2017 8:32:14 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: dirtboy

Salman Abedi

waiting for CNN to call it an Amish name


7 posted on 05/23/2017 8:32:48 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: dirtboy

Forget the (don’t) Watch Lists and work on the Deport Lists.


8 posted on 05/23/2017 8:36:05 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: morphing libertarian

The left wing media is tripping over themselves to identify him as ‘British’. Well, he may have paperwork. He is no Briton.


9 posted on 05/23/2017 8:37:06 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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10 posted on 05/23/2017 8:38:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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Sounds like Oklahoma City all over again.


11 posted on 05/23/2017 8:39:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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Who is the British version of Barney Fife? That must be who’s minding their security store.


12 posted on 05/23/2017 8:39:33 PM PDT by EinNYC
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Members of his own family had even informed on him in the past, telling British authorities that he was dangerous

I guess honor killings are just for girls

13 posted on 05/23/2017 8:40:46 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Riley

saw some brit woman on carlson detail how week the brits are. kill a bunch of there kids and pols pee their pants


14 posted on 05/23/2017 8:42:05 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: LucyT

Unreal ping.


15 posted on 05/23/2017 8:42:22 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Winning is not getting old.)
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Who is the British version of Barney Fife? That must be who’s minding their security store.

Even Barney got to have one bullet.

 

16 posted on 05/23/2017 8:42:29 PM PDT by Bronzewound (2016 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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I hope Trump hammers this home. RATmedia has a dilemma on its hands. It can ignore the bombing clearly terrorist ties or it can report on Trump’s incredible foreign trip. Either way it loses as it would by staying on the Russia fraud.

He should make it clear that this guy would not have been trained in Libya had Hussein and the Witch not turned Libya over to al Queda. Bush had defanged Libya which turned over all its WMD and the nuclear research program it was running for Saddam.

Now it is time to thoroughly investigate his mosque, his friends, anyone who knows him.


17 posted on 05/23/2017 8:44:26 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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a bank card found in his pocket

There was a pocket left?

18 posted on 05/23/2017 8:44:42 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: morphing libertarian

It may take a while but eventually, the British will come to the end of their rope.

When they do, it won’t be pretty.


19 posted on 05/23/2017 8:45:52 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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“Abedi had traveled to Libya within the last 12 months”

Thank you Hillary and obama.
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And McCain, Graham, and Rubio.


20 posted on 05/23/2017 8:46:47 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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