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Manchester attacker's father, younger brother arrested in Tripoli: spokesman
Reuters ^ | May 24, 2017 | by Ahmed Elumami

Posted on 05/24/2017 11:00:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The father and the younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a concert venue in Manchester have been arrested in Tripoli, a spokesman for a local counter-terrorism force said on Wednesday.

The counter-terrorism force detained the father, Ramadan Abedi, outside his home in the Tripoli suburb of Ayn Zara on Wednesday afternoon. A witness said he was handcuffed by armed men who drove him away in two unmarked vehicles.

The force, known as Rada, detained the brother Hashem Abedi, who was born in 1997, on Tuesday evening on suspicion of links to Islamic State, spokesman Ahmed Bin Salem said. He did not give any details on the reasons why the father was arrested.

But Hashem Abedi had been in touch with attacker Salman Abedi, Bin Salem said, and was suspected of planning to carry out an attack in the Libyan capital.

"We have evidence that he is involved in Daesh (Islamic State) with his brother. We have been following him for more than one month and a half," Bin Salem said. "He was in contact with his brother and he knew about the attack."

He said the younger brother had traveled from London to Tripoli on April 16.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaida; europejihad; isis; islam; libyafailedstate; libyaisis; ukteroristbrother; ukterrorattack; ukterrorist; ukterroristfather
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1 posted on 05/24/2017 11:00:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Round ‘em up. Deport ‘em.


2 posted on 05/24/2017 11:04:29 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good or bad?
Fake or real?........................


3 posted on 05/24/2017 11:05:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Libyans have no problem rouging them up before shipping them off to Britain.


4 posted on 05/24/2017 11:05:43 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WOW what a family..but hey, according to liberals, banning people from Libya is racist and stuff


5 posted on 05/24/2017 11:07:10 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Albion Wilde

Cut off their welfare, including family members, and they will flee like rats.


6 posted on 05/24/2017 11:08:04 AM PDT by relictele
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7 posted on 05/24/2017 11:08:53 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Find every family member and kill them all. Find their imams and kill them and raze the mosks.


8 posted on 05/24/2017 11:10:18 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Take out their families. Bulldoze their homes. Discourage this kind of behavior, with extreme prejudice.


9 posted on 05/24/2017 11:12:16 AM PDT by jim35 (The Tree of Liberty is coming in to bloom again.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Put about a million people around the palace shouting, “MOVE THEM OUT!” for a week or two.

Do the same thing around Parliament.

I think they’d get the hint.


10 posted on 05/24/2017 11:12:18 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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They must of really worked this guy over!! It took two unmarked cars to haul him away??

BigBlockk

Later.....


11 posted on 05/24/2017 11:13:13 AM PDT by BigBlockk
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> The neighborhood, around an area called Moss Side, just a few miles from the concert hall, is considered by police to be a hot bed of ISIS recruitmen - http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/portrait-emerges-salman-abedi-suspected-manchester-bomber/story?id=47594845

Why is this allowed to exist?


12 posted on 05/24/2017 11:13:50 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
My son is innocent, insists father of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi
Oopsie! Daddy been lyin'...


13 posted on 05/24/2017 11:14:59 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: Ray76

I agree. I’d give it six months to turn those areas into ghost towns. Return to sender...


14 posted on 05/24/2017 11:16:48 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Just find them and hang them...
15 posted on 05/24/2017 11:19:00 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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...A witness said he was handcuffed by armed men who drove him away in two unmarked vehicles...

I bet that was painful.

16 posted on 05/24/2017 11:23:02 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: Albion Wilde
Round ‘em up. Deport ‘em.

They were picked up in Libya and I doubt they'll get any deportation proceedings. It sounds like they're on their way to an "undisclosed" location.

17 posted on 05/24/2017 11:23:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Ray76

Manchester Police are concerned with “eradicating hate” and making people “safe from hatred”. The Mayor says “There’s a lot of people in this country not necessarily at risk from ‘Islamic extremism’ but it’s far-right extremism”.

#ManchesterMoms need to protest outside HQ. The Mayor and police chiefs need to be fired.


18 posted on 05/24/2017 11:26:35 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Albion Wilde

“Deport ‘em.”

Deport them to England?


19 posted on 05/24/2017 11:26:40 AM PDT by sagar
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To: Ray76

link to support police statements

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3554787/posts


20 posted on 05/24/2017 11:27:09 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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