Salman Abedi, pictured, killed 22 people in the Manchester attack
A Muslim community worker who knew the Manchester bomber said they warned officials that he appeared to support terrorism.
The unnamed worker said they knew the bomber Salman Abedi when he was at college, and had expressed their concern to officers after he said he thought ‘being a suicide bomber was OK’.
He also apparently made comments ‘supporting terrorism’, which were also reported.
The calls were made five years ago after Abedi left school, they told the BBC.
Salman Abedi was born in Manchester
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Salman Abedi detonated a nail bomb near the entrance of Manchester Arena on Monday night, as up to 21,000 fans were leaving a sold-out Ariana Grande concert.
At least 22 people have died, and another 119 are injured – 20 of them critically.
It was the deadliest terrorist attack to hit the UK since the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005.
Ramadan Abedi, the bomber’s father, who was arrested by counter-terror police in Libya (Picture: UNP)
Salman Abedi’s brother Ismail was arrested by UK counter-terror police on Tuesday after a series of raids.
Brother of Manchester bomber ‘was planning his own terrorist attack’
The bomber’s other brother, Hashem, and his dad Ramadan were both also arrested in Tripoli by Libyan counter-terror officers.
Libyan officers have said Hashem ‘knew all the details’ of his brother’s devastating attack.
They added that he was planning his own ‘terrorist activity’ in Tripoli.
CubicMuffin on May 25th, 2017 at 01:14 UTC »
At lot of people in this thread seem angry that "this always seems to be the case" (or words to that effect). The police arrest people almost daily, using information from around the world, all in the name of stopping terrorism. You don't hear about these though because it's not news. Britain has been at severe in terms of threat level for around three years now (although I believe it has just been upgraded to critical, meaning an attack is imminent). The fact that we have only experienced a small number of major terrorist incidents in our country speaks highly of the men and women working tirelessly to protect us, and the rest of the world.
It's easy to see headlines like these and assume the police just do fuck all, but it's the stuff we don't see that's important.
So, if anybody who works in counter terrorism, the police, or any other intelligence organisation is reading this, thank you for making our world a lot better than it might be without you.
That's all.
HrabraSrca on May 24th, 2017 at 22:51 UTC »
Apparently his neighbours had also reported in the weeks leading up to the attack that he was acting oddly, including chanting loudly in the street at random times.
Edit: English is hard.
FloopyMuscles on May 24th, 2017 at 22:19 UTC »
Why does this seem to be a common theme? With the failed NYC pipe bomber the father reported his son twice to the FBI. Edit: All right I get it, a majority of complaints are either bullshit or a whole lot of nothing. There just has to be a better way. Also you can't be arrested for crimes you don't commit. Edit edit: You're sending me some mixed signals Reddit, why can't you all be legal experts? Edit edit edit: I know it's easier said than done. Edit edit edit edit: I'm pretty sure it's more than just "we don't want to offend liverals" or "it's all part of the plan"