Manchester Bomber Repeatedly Reported to Authorities over Five Year Period

Breitbart ^ | 5-25-2017 | Donna Rachel Edmunds

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The police and security services missed at least five opportunities over five years to stop Salman Abedi from carrying out his deadly terror attack, it has emerged. Following the deadly attack at the Manchester Arena by Abedi on Tuesday night, which claimed 22 lives, questions are being raised as to why the British authorities did little to follow up on repeated reports from friends and community members that Abedi was radicalised and had expressed support for suicide bombing.

The reports date back five years, when two youth workers are said to have phoned an anti-terrorism hotline to report concerns over Adebi’s “extreme views” whilst he was completing his last year at school, the BBC has reported.

Two of Abedi’s friends were also so concerned about his behaviour that they separately phoned the hotline, five years ago, and again in 2016.

“They had been worried that ‘he was supporting terrorism’ and had expressed the view that ‘being a suicide bomber was ok’,” a source told the BBC.

Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, told The Telegraph that community members also reported Abedi to the authorities two years ago “because he thought he was involved in extremism and terrorism”.

“People in the community expressed concerns about the way this man was behaving and reported it in the right way using the right channels,” Shafiq said.

“They did not hear anything since.”

Akram Ramadan, 49, a member of the south Manchester Libyan community where Abedi lived, said that Abedi had been banned from Didsbury Mosque after he confronted an imam who had delivered a sermon opposing extremism.

Didsbury Mosque has confirmed that, following the incident, it contacted the Home Office’s Prevent anti-radicalisation programme to flag Abedi as a possible extremist.

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[RKBA Democrat]

If you’ve ever been exposed to pickpockets, you know that they often use a diversion to draw attention away from the hand that’s sliding into your pocket.

[miss marmelstein]

Same with the grooming gangs. Reported. Ignored.

Trump’s fault.

[Eagles6]

How about the Garland TX attack where an FBI agent or informant was part of the plot and was at the scene.

[TBP]

And they were expected to do something???

[kearnyirish2]

Terror, like poverty and the “War on Drugs”, is a “government industry” that funnels massive taxpayer resources to the government worker caste (the front lines of the Deep State). This pseudo industry would collapse if the work was taken seriously.