Libya Arrests Brother, Father of Manchester Bombing Suspect
Libya has arrested a brother and the father of the man suspected of carrying out the bombing in the British city of Manchester, a relative and security sources said Wednesday.
The family source, asking not to be identified, said intelligence services had arrested Hashem Abedi, who like his older brother Salman was born in Britain, on Tuesday.
One of the forces that supports Libya's U.N.-backed unity government posted a picture on its Facebook page of Hashem Abedi after detaining him.
"The father, Ramadan Abedi, has also just been arrested," said Ahmed bin Salem, a spokesman for the Deterrence Force, which acts as Government of National Accord's police.
He said the brother was aware of Salman Abedi's attack plan and that the two brothers were both members of the Islamic State group.
The Monday night bombing at a pop concert killed 22 people, including children as young as eight.
IS claimed responsibility for the attack on Tuesday through its social media channels, saying "one of the caliphate's soldiers placed bombs among the crowds".
Hashem had been "under surveillance for a month and a half" and "investigation teams supplied intelligence that he was planning a terrorist attack in the capital Tripoli", the Deterrence Force said on its Facebook page.
He was arrested on Tuesday evening as he received 4,500 Libyan dinars (around 650 dollars) from his brother Salman, it said, without providing further details.
The relative said Salman had traveled to Manchester from Libya four days before the bombing.
"His father wanted his son to stay in Libya but Salman insisted on going to Manchester."
Salman Abedi, 22, was born in Manchester to Libyan parents who reportedly fled the regime of slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Britain's interior minister, Amber Rudd, confirmed on Wednesday that Salman was known to intelligence services and that it was "likely" he was not working alone.
Her French counterpart Gerard Collomb said he had become radicalized after a trip to Libya and probably Syria, according to information received from UK intelligence services.
"In any case, the links with Daesh are proven," Collomb said, using another term for IS.
almost 7 years
to @nnTexas, what's your take on how your adopted country, Usa can provide arms and ammunition to Saudi Arabia, a country which is the main source of intl terrorism and all suicided terrorists acts committed in Europe and Middle East are prepared, trained, and supplied in and by this country!?.. please be honest if only once in life.
almost 7 years
seems you forgot syria's mufti's threats in 2011 : " Assad’s Mufti threatened Europe and the US that if Syria was attacked or bombed then they would suffer from suicide operations carried out by people residing in their own countries.
Hassoun said in a video clip on YouTube: “Once the first rocket is launched onto Syria, the people of both Lebanon and Syria will be suicide bombers on Europe and Palestine.”
funny how his threats are now set in motion .....
Hassoun added: “I say it to all of Europe and America: We will send suicide bombers, for after today, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth with the instigator being guiltier, and you are the ones who hurt us.”
hassoun's threats...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8lHZxZOgA0
but of course you syrian bootlickers will never dig that possibility...
almost 7 years
your narrow fanatic minds only jumps to quick and easy conclusions...
lots of countries are behind terrorism : iran, saudis, syria, usa, israel...
but for you sectarian fanatics only saudis can carry out such acts and you automatically jump to easy conclusion like you were bred to say like parrots you are...
you forget that aoun said syria harboured financed and manipulated for decades islamist groups and for you suddenly they would stop doing so? LOL
but as i know how your naive minds will react to my post i say to you clearly that saudis, ISIS, syria or iran can be behind these horrors: everyone has an interest in it... so don't you dare say i am pro saudi or zionist....
but for you idiots there is only one possibility... that is what characterizes you lot as fanatics...
if not then come and say it could be anyone as no one knows the answer yet,
you would show objectivity and intellectual honesty...but i really doubt it...LOL
almost 7 years
Yes, we get it, this Libyan Sunni went to Libya, where Hassoun sent telepathic messages to him that made him kill himself for Bashar al Assad.
Yes, it sounds very likely.
almost 7 years
i get that you are just an idiot who jumps to quick conclusions who already has the answer to everything, better than any secret service in the world! ....
almost 7 years
Quick conclusions? It is called Occams Razor. The simplest answer is usually the correct one.
almost 7 years
it is rather called a syllogistic fallacy as you hezbis are experts in it...
almost 7 years
yeah sure....whatever southern baby boy....
almost 7 years
"the Syrian source was adverting that these terrorists one day would be back to do what they're doing now"
“I say it to all of Europe and America: We will send suicide bombers, for after today, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"
so hassoun sayin "we will send" contradicts what your propaganda is telling... LOL stop twisting his words to fit your hezbi propaganda...
but we know that you believe the syrian regime are always innocent and would never sponsor terrorism despite what aoun said, what counterterrorism experts say, what international investigations say....
you d better send your conclusions to MI6 they would really appreciate your findings that saudis are behind manchester as they do not know it yet LOL
almost 7 years
You still havent explained why Sunnis from North Africa would kill themselves for Bashar al Assad.
almost 7 years
if you have an ounce of intelligence you d make the research all by yourself...
but you are incapable of reasoning by yourself you need someone to do it for you but i have no time to waste on idiots like you.......
almost 7 years
@peace shies away from the question, because he doesn't have an answer.. thus the ones who evade evidente question, they agree that they've been cornered.
he's cornered!
almost 7 years
southern baby boy: just read what i posted and you ll get the answers if you are smart enough like your minihabib friend to understand... but that i doubt.
so stick to your own clever conclusions, live on your certainties and doubt nothing if it makes you feel better, i do not care...
i question things, you just parrot what your party says that is the big difference, good for you to never think, it saves you energy LOL
That is what you get when you support terrorists in Libya overthrow their government.