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 anyone claims to be shocked by this news...
“Abedi had traveled to Libya within the last 12 months”
Thank you Hillary and obama.
Hillary and Barack’s senseless destruction of Libya is looking worse and worse.
Why is no one connecting those dots?????
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.
I’ve noticed Dim propagandists never, ever talk about Libya. They breezily skip over it when blaming Bush for Iraq, etc.
Salman Abedi
waiting for CNN to call it an Amish name
Forget the (don’t) Watch Lists and work on the Deport Lists.
The left wing media is tripping over themselves to identify him as ‘British’. Well, he may have paperwork. He is no Briton.
Sounds like Oklahoma City all over again.
Who is the British version of Barney Fife? That must be who’s minding their security store.
I guess honor killings are just for girls
saw some brit woman on carlson detail how week the brits are. kill a bunch of there kids and pols pee their pants
Unreal ping.
Even Barney got to have one bullet.
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.
There was a pocket left?
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.
Abedi had traveled to Libya within the last 12 months
Thank you Hillary and obama.
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And McCain, Graham, and Rubio.
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