SALMAN ABEDI – EXTREME RABBIT
What kind of person seeks out a venue filled with girls and young women and then kills as many of them as he possibly can? This kind of person.
What kind of person seeks out a venue filled with girls and young women and then kills as many of them as he possibly can? This kind of person.
Suicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, was born in Manchester after his parents fled Libya:
He is thought to have been in contact with Raphael Hostey, also from Manchester, who recruited dozens of young Britons to fight for the terror group in Syria before he was killed in a drone strike a year ago.
Abedi grew up on a council estate in Fallowfield in the south of the city with his siblings, including his older brother, Ismail, 23, who was being questioned by counterterrorism detectives last night. Described as a quiet Manchester United fan, Abedi studied a business and management course at Salford University in 2015, but dropped out.
He did not seem to be a man to make much of an impression until the events of Monday night. Armed with a suitcase full of explosives and shrapnel, Abedi walked into the heart of the crowds leaving the arena before detonating the device, police confirmed.
Counterterrorism detectives and security investigators are examining his connections with the network of jihadists in the area connected with Hostey. It is understood that he had recently returned from Libya. He was not one of the 350 returned jihadists specifically on MI5’s radar, but he was known to the security services in some form. The extent of their investigations are unclear …
'We had to pull nails out of children's faces': Steve, a homeless man who was sleeping near #Manchester Arena, rushed to help young victims pic.twitter.com/dyxzZpal0Q
— ITV News (@itvnews) May 23, 2017
A friend of the Abedi family told The Times that he had been “radicalised by mosques in south Manchester, there are many people who are suspicious about him”. The friend added: “Many Libyan youths started to become radicalised after 2011.”
Just by the way, Manchester has more than 60 mosques.
Neighbours said that Abedi had grown a beard and loudly recited Islamic prayers weeks before the concert hall atrocity. Lina Ahmed, 21, said that he had chanted loudly in the street.
Bit of a warning there. Unexpectedly, one of the more powerful responses to the bombing came from Manchester-raised singer Morrissey:
Manchester mayor Andy Burnham says the attack is the work of an "extremist". An extreme what? An extreme rabbit?
In modern Britain everyone seems petrified to officially say what we all say in private. Politicians tell us they are unafraid, but they are never the victims. How easy to be unafraid when one is protected from the line of fire. The people have no such protections.
They will soon, as the UK unleashes the troops:
Up to 5,000 soldiers will be deployed on the streets amid fears that the Manchester suicide bomber had accomplices preparing further attacks, Theresa May has announced.
For the first time in 10 years, the Prime Minister said the terror threat had been raised to the highest possible level, from severe to critical, meaning an attack is “expected imminently”.
Meanwhile, Cosmopolitan converts a Sikh to a Muslim:
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— Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) May 24, 2017
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