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."
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If you follow islam you go to jail, leave the free country or die. Very simple.
Now enforce it.
They were too busy spying on the Trump campaign.
So, instead of “undocumented immigrant,” he should be classified as a “documented Islamist”
Lybian trained within the last 12 months and so dangerous his own family tried to turn him in, but Trump gets two scoops.
Take me in oh tender woman, cried the vicious snake.
While he had “clear ties to al Qaeda,” the official said, Abedi could have had connections to other groups.
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It doesn’t matter what group claims responsibility or who trained him.
What matters is he did it for Allah (Satan)
Exactly
Thanks, sweetiepiezer.
Abedi Abeda death goes on yah, allah how the deaths go on.
They were first generation immigrants, the son was ‘native born’.
I see two situations (not at the same time, counter situations actually) in such families...
Either the parents are upset by their kids’ western ways (sometimes resulting in avuse and honor killings) or the families who left Islamic theocratic societies have kids who believe their parents have betrayed the faith.
And this sadly isn’t the first Islamic terrorist who was reported (sometimes even interviewed) to authorities only to be cut loose and then eventually seeing him attack.
That was his brother IIRC.
His parents were said to have returned to Libya after Ghadaffi’s ouster.
No Shiite.
Johnny English.
Good on the family and the authorities and politicians needs to be held accountable for letting this carnage happen.
Citizens of Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya were banned from getting visas twice by President Trump.
A bunch of communist degenerate scumbag tyrants in black robes appointed by fellow communist and homosexual democratic politicians have illegally blocked his order from taking effect.
The terrorists are now pouring into the US, not to mention the ones that were born here and have traveled back to be trained in explosives.
Trump should declare a State of Emergency and deal with the domestic enemy in Congress, the Judiciary, and the Press once and for all.
The communist judges dictating to the President who can and cannot enter the country is the catalyst by which they and their allies can be neutralized.
The question remains is Trump up to the challenge.
Frequently with the vest-style bombs, in the explosion the head pops off and goes practically straight up. The lower body basically stays put, and the waist-to-neck part is vaporized in the explosion.
Its not uncommon to find a head in surprisingly good condition near the blast sight. Likewise the legs. The explosion is directed outward from the torso.
Pro-tip: always look up when investigating an indoor suicide bomb site. The head of the bomber might be in the ceiling or stuck in the rafters.
Yech.
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