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The horrific attack in Manchester England has thus far taken 22 lives- including children and young women. Prime Minister Theresa May has declared that courage will ultimately win the day: 'The liberal pluralistic values of Britain will always prevail over the hateful ideology of the terrorists. They proved that cowardice will always be defeated by bravery.'Mrs May closed her statement saying the spirit of Manchester and Britain as a whole showed the terrorists would not win, and branded atrocities such as last night's 'sick plots'.She said: 'That's why the terrorists will never win, and we will prevail.' When? And at what...

After every horrific terror incident, politicians attempt to calm their populace by telling us to go about our daily business; we can't let the terrorist win. It's so easy for multi-million dollar politicians with round-the-clock, world class personal security for themselves and their families to calmly tell us all to just "go about as normal" in a more dangerous world they carelessly created for the general public to endure in the name of one-way multiculturalism.

The left just can’t seem to understand that Islamic terrorists are going to try to destroy our way of life no matter how nice we are to them. On Monday night, a bombing at Ariana Grande’s Manchester concert made headlines all over the globe. 22 people, including an 8-year-old girl, were killed and 59 were wounded. It is exactly the sort of “soft target” attack that I have been warning about, and ISIS quickly claimed responsibility. Within the last 30 days, there have been 169 Islamic terror attacks in a total of 24 different countries. Last year, the number of...

Manchester bomber Salman Abedi apparently wasn't the only member of his family to harbor extremist views as Libyan officials arrested the suicide bomber's father and two brothers, and uncovered what investigators called a plot for a new attack.(snip)

Actually, no, candlelight vigils aren’t the answer. Neither is diversity. The answer is we have to kill them. We have to shatter their organization, chase them to the ends of the earth, and take them out of the game. Or it will be our little girls next. Last night, watching the network news, the serious-voiced man spoke as the camera panned over an impromptu memorial service in Manchester. He talked about how moving it was to see people come together, how diverse this almost totally white crowd was, and how events like this bring out the best in us. Like...

First picture of Salman Abedi was released on Wednesday morning. • He was born in the UK and turned to radical Islam in recent years. He was known to British spies. • Abedi went on "secret jihadi training during family trips to Syria," according to The Sun. • The BBC reported that Abedi was acting as a "mule" for a bomb maker, who remains on the run. • His Manchester address was searched on Tuesday, with forensic experts finding a book titled "Know Your Chemicals!" LONDON — Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old suicide bomber at Manchester Arena on Monday night, was...

Sickening. Much like wretched local monster Dzhokhar Tsarnaev must have noticed little Martin Richard and his family when he planted his bomb next to them at the Boston Marathon in 2013, so the maniac at the Ariana Grande concert, 22 year-old Salman Abedi, must have been well aware that he was going to butcher those helpless souls Monday night.

Celebrating my birthday in Manchester as news of the Manchester Arena bomb broke. The anger is monumental. For what reason will this ever stop? Theresa May says such attacks "will not break us", but her own life is lived in a bullet-proof bubble, and she evidently does not need to identify any young people today in Manchester morgues. Also, "will not break us" means that the tragedy will not break her, or her policies on immigration. The young people of Manchester are already broken - thanks all the same, Theresa. Sadiq Khan says "London is united with Manchester", but he...

Fans of Justin Bieber pleaded on Tuesday for his upcoming British tour dates to be canceled, underscoring the potential repercussions to music acts with a young fan base from the suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. Canadian heartthrob Bieber, 23, is due to play an open air concert at London's Hyde Park in July. But fans flooded social media saying his appearance should be axed for the safety both of fans and the singer himself.

Today is Teary Solidarity Day in the UK. Flowers, candles, and teddy bears are accumulating in their appointed places. Photos of slain children are being displayed on television and in the newspapers, and weepy citizens are lamenting their tragic loss. New hashtags proliferate on social media. And politicians recycle their tired clichés about standing together and not letting the terrorists divide us and etc blah yak. And things continue the same, in Britain and throughout the Multicultural West. Our English correspondent Paul Weston has a few choice words to say about last night’s Islamic terrorist attack in Manchester, and the...

In a live televised statement from Downing Street, UK PM Theresa May explains it was possible a “wider group of individuals” could have been involved in the Manchester Arena attack rather than just suicide bomber Salman Abedi. *UK’S MAY: MANCHESTER TERROR ATTACKER BORN, RAISED IN UK *SALMAN ABEDI WAS BROUGHT UP IN U.K, POSSIBLE WIDER NETWORK: MAY The Prime Minister said the terror threat level would be increased to “critical”, meaning an attack was expected imminently. U.K. TERROR THREAT LEVEL TO INCREASE FROM ‘SEVERE’ TO ‘CRITICAL’ U.K. PRIME MINISTER SAYS FURTHER ATTACK COULD BE IMMINENT In a sign of the...

Whenever there is a mass killing of any kind in Europe, every reasonable person jumps to the same conclusion every time. They assume that the attack was committed by a Muslim, and it’s not an outlandish assumption to make. Nine times out of ten they are right. The media however, often tries to pin it on right-wing extremists. Or at the very least, they’ll try to leave that possibility on the table for as long as they can. They won’t commit to an Islamic terror narrative until the authorities confirm what everyone already knew. That scenario played out again after...

The pop star Ariana Grande has canceled the remaining dates of her "Dangerous Woman" tour following the murder of 22 fans (at the time of writing) and the injury of dozens more at her concert in Manchester. The Manchester Royal Infirmary reports that half the victims brought to the hospital overnight are children. The killer was a suicide bomber. Theresa May says the police believe they know his identity. The usual, predictable details will follow. [UPDATE: He's Salman Abedi, the Manchester-born son of Libyan refugees and another "known wolf".].... ...Carrying on in Germany, Angela Merkel pronounced the attack "incomprehensible". But...

Pop megastar Katy Perry made an impassioned plea for people to “co-exist” and said that “barriers” or “borders” could detract from that goal in an interview following the terrorist bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, U.K. on Monday night that claimed the lives of at least 22 people and injured dozens of others. In an interview Tuesday on Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, the “Chained to the Rhythm” singer suggested that people “unite” following the tragedy, which occurred as young fans and their parents were leaving the 21,000-seat arena at around 10:35 p.m. local time. “Whatever we...

ISIS calls the now-aerosolized bomber a "soldier of the Caliphate" Islamic State has taken responsibility for the suicide bombing yesterday of the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, that left at least 22 people dead and 59 others wounded, reports John Rossomando of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Many of the dead and injured are young girls. Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh, boasted Tuesday about its involvement in the Muslim terrorist attack, referring to the now-aerosolized bomber as a “soldier of the Caliphate.”

On today’s Morning Joe, Scarborough said that President Trump “revealed himself as the jackass that leaked top secret Israeli intel,” adding that the intel that President Trump allegedly leaked was “about somebody on the inside of a terror organization that killed 20 little girls and their mothers last night.” Scarborough first observed that in denying that he had mentioned Israel in his meeting with the Russians, Trump was denying something of which he had not been accused. Scarborough said that was like a man who runs into a police station saying “my wife’s missing and it’s not my gun that’s...

Europe, the United Kingdom, and Russia have witnessed terror attacks or attempted attacks every nine days in 2017 on average, analysis of security incidents has revealed. Since January, around 45 people have been killed by mostly Islamic terrorists, while hundreds have been injured. The only known incident not linked to jihadism in 2017 was the attack on the Borussia Dortmund soccer team by a Russian-German national attempting to profit from short-selling stock in the company. Attacks and attempted attacks have taken place in Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Norway, and Germany. Security services in Britain —...

MANCHESTER, England — Greater Manchester Police say they have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the apparent suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in the city. Police say the man was arrested in south Manchester Tuesday, a day after the explosion killed 22 people and injured 59, many of them teenagers. They did not provide details.

Sources connected to Ariana tell TMZ, she will not perform Thursday in London and has decided for now to put the entire European tour on hold. She was scheduled to perform in England, Belgium, Poland, Germany and Switzerland. Ariana just tweeted, "broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words." As we reported, Ariana is inconsolable ... "in hysterics" after the bombing. As one source said, she's incapable of performing for anyone. She and her team, we're told, are also deeply concerned about security.

At least 19 people have died and 55 others are injured following a “serious incident” reported to be an explosion at the Manchester Arena. A police statement said: “There are a number of fatalities and others injured.” It is being treated as a “suspected terrorist incident”. Witnesses reported hearing a “huge bang” at the venue during an Ariana Grande gig.