Jihadi bomber’s father, “respected member of Didsbury mosque,” and brother linked to ISIS, Al Qaeda

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Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s father, Ramadan Abedi, was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) also known as Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya , was an armed jihad group whose members include  alleged Al Qaeda organizer Abd al-Muhsin Al-Libi, who now holds a key command position in the Libya Shield Force.

More of the poison fruit of Obama’s overthrow of then-Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi.

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The LIFG was founded in 1995, and was involved in attempts to assassinate then-Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi as well as violent clashes with Benghazi police. In 2002, a senior LIFG commander, Anas al-Libi, who also was a companion of Al Qaeda founder Usama bin Laden, was detained by U.S. forces for his role in the 1998 bombings of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200 people.

Manchester Arena jihad mass murderer Salman Abedi was a devout Muslim who prayed every day. Salman and his brother Ismail worshipped at Didsbury mosque, where their father, who is known as Abu Ismail within the community, is a well-known figure.

In a telephone interview from Tripoli, Ramadan Abedi — who is now the administrative manager of the Central Security force in the Libyan capital — denied to The Associated Press that his son is linked to any militant group or the suicide bombing that killed 22 people.

The father of the alleged terrorist said that his family “aren’t the ones who blow up ourselves among innocents.”

Liar.

Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s father and brothers arrested, linked to ISIS, Al Qaeda

Fox News, May 24, 2017:

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.

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Hashim Abedi, who was born in 1997, was arrested in Tripoli on Wednesday evening by the Libyan counter-terrorism force Rada on suspicion of links to the Islamic State, and was planning a new attack on the Libyan capital, a government spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday.

The father of the bomber was arrested in Tripoli on Wednesday, a Libyan security spokesman told The Associated Press. The father, Ramadan Abedi, had said another brother of the bomber, Ismail, was arrested Tuesday.

Earlier Abdel-Basit Haroun, a former security official in Libya, told The Associated Press Wednesday that he personally knew Ramadan Abedi, the father of Salman Abedi, and that the elder Abedi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s. The group had links to Al Qaeda.

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Although the LIFG disbanded, Haroun said the father belongs to the Salafi Jihadi movement, the most extreme sect of Salafism and from which Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group hail. Haroun added that Abedi, also known as Abu Ismail, had returned to the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

The LIFG was founded in 1995, and was involved in attempts to assassinate then-Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi as well as violent clashes with Benghazi police. In 2002, a senior LIFG commander, Anas al-Libi, who also was a companion of Al Qaeda founder Usama bin Laden, was detained by U.S. forces for his role in the 1998 bombings of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200 people.

The group also was involved in the bloody riots at Abu Salim prison near Benghazi in 1996 that killed more than 1,200 prisoners.

The LIFG reportedly teamed up with the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group in planning the May 2003 bombings in Casablanca, Morocco, that killed more than 40 people and injured more than 100. The group also has been linked to the 2004 attacks in Madrid that killed 194 people.

Ramadan Abedi – along with his wife Samia Tabbal — escaped Tripoli in 1993 after Qaddafi’s security authorities issued an arrest warrant and eventually sought political asylum in Britain. The elder Abedi first immigrated to London before settling in the Whalley Range area of south Manchester, where they had lived for at least a decade.

The neighborhood is known to be home to a number of former LIFG members living in exile, including Abd al-Baset Azzouz – an expert bomb-maker who left Manchester to run a terrorist network in eastern Libya overseen by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Usama bin Laden’s successor as leader of Al Qaeda. Media in the United Kingdom reported in 2014 that Azzouz had 200 to 300 militants under his control.

We don’t believe in killing innocents. This is not us.
– Ramadan Abedi, the father of Manchester bombing suspect Salman Abedi

In a telephone interview from Tripoli, Ramadan Abedi — who is now the administrative manager of the Central Security force in the Libyan capital — denied to The Associated Press that his son is linked to any militant group or the suicide bombing that killed 22 people.

The father of the alleged terrorist said that his family “aren’t the ones who blow up ourselves among innocents.”
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Abedi added that he spoke to his son five days ago and he was getting ready to travel from Saudi Arabia to Libya to spend the holy month of Ramadan with family and sounded “normal.” He said that his son visited Libya a month-and-a -half ago.

The father also confirmed that his other son, Ismail, was arrested in England on Tuesday morning.

The Abedi family had apparently become concerned about Salma’s growing radicalization and a friend close to the family told The New York Times that his parents had seized the suspected bomber’s British passport. They had returned it when he said that he wanted to return to the holy Saudi city of Mecca, but instead flew back to the Manchester area.

While early reports were unclear whether the 22-year-old Abedi had acted as a lone wolf or in coordination with others, Manchester’s police chief told reporters on Wednesday that it is clear “this is a network we are investigating” as he gave an update on the probe into the bomb attack.

Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said Wednesday that police are carrying out extensive searches across Manchester as part of their probe.

Hopkins declined to comment on whether police have found the alleged maker of the explosive device used in Monday night’s attack.

His comments followed media reports that Abedi acted as a “mule” for others.

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

There is no such thing as a respectable follower of islam.

Philosophy
Philosophy
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

When ‘Islam’ is not respectable then how its follower? Non-Islamic world is proved stupid enough, to permit the existence of violent Islam, even help with weapon too……

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Being a respected member of a mosque is like being a respected staffer at Auschwitz. The guy’s dad was also a member of a gang seeking to bring down Qaddafi. Let’s see, the ring leader of the gang of thugs who accomplished that was Hillary, remember?

Ichabod Crain
Ichabod Crain
6 years ago

“The holy Saudi city of Mecca” – Why do they always print such nonsense? There is nothing holy about Mecca to non-Muslims. Mecca is the head office of an evil cult. Did a Muslim write this article? At the bottom of the article it says “Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.” Doesn’t sound like Muslims to me. You see that all the time, like it is part of the word – as in the “Holy Quran”. Whenever I write about such things, I will say “The unholy Quran” or instead of “the Prophet Muhammad”, write “the thug Muhammad”. If you are going to use an adjective, you should use one that is appropriate.

Philosophy
Philosophy
6 years ago
Reply to  Ichabod Crain

Civilization is holy, in a sense that Civilization denote knowledge centered life style. In contrast religion, here Islam is that religion is all about hatred–rape and murder. It is stupidity of civilized people that they have accept religion and allow its followers to practice religion.

There must be war against religion from civilized world.

joe1429
joe1429
6 years ago

That is the “thank you” for allowing the parents entry from shitistan, and a nice life in UK

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