[ April 19, 2024 ]
Details are starting to emerge about Salman Abedi, the terrorist who blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 adults and children and injuring more than 100 — and what’s clear so far is this: He born in Britain to a family of Libyan refugees.
Moreover, his father, an airport security official, had recently left the United Kingdom to go fight in Libya.
And Salman himself?
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He’d recently returned from a trip to Libya, too.
From the Daily Mail:
“Born in Manchester in 1994, the third of four children, his parents were Libyan refugees who came to the UK to escape the Gaddafi regime and his father is a suspected fighter who left the UK in 2011 to try to overthrow the Libyan leader.
“Ramadan Abedi, an airport security officer who is thought to have worked at Manchester Airport, emigrated to London with his wife Samia Tabbal, 50, before moving to the Fallowfield area of south Manchester where they settled in a housing association-owned home about two miles from the scene of Monday night’s terror attack.
“Friends and neighbours said Abedi appeared to be a normal football-mad teenager who was a massive Manchester United fan and spent hours playing computer games on the PS4
“But everything changed in 2011 when his father abruptly left his job and home in the anonymous suburb to fight in Libya, leaving his family to fend for themselves, according to a local imam.
“Abedi and his brothers appear to have followed in his footsteps by sharing stories of British jihadis fighting in Syria on social networks and even praying in the street.
“Within hours of the attack carried out by Abedi, police arrested his brother Ismail, 23, outside a Morrison’s in Chorlton, Manchester and last night they were quizzing him on suspicion of involvement in the bombing. …
“Abedi is thought to have attended multiple schools in Manchester Claremont Primary School including Burnage Academy, William Hulme and Stretford Grammar School.
“Leon Hall, who went to school with Abedi, told Mail Online he saw the killer last year and said he had grown a beard. He also said the jihadist was a keen Manchester United fan.
“Mr Hall said: ‘I saw him last year and he had a beard thing going on. We didn’t speak but just nodded to each other. I don’t remember seeing him with beard before.
“‘He always had a bit of an attitude problem. I can’t say I really liked the man.’
“He added: ‘I saw him last year and he had a beard thing going on. We didn’t speak but just nodded to each other. I don’t remember seeing him with beard before.’ …
“One friend said: ‘His parents are in Libya at the moment, they seem to go backwards and forwards a lot. I’m shocked.
“‘It’s crazy to think he could do this, he didn’t show any outward signs of being radicalised.
“‘I had noticed him being a bit more religious perhaps of late, going to the mosque more to pray and walking his little brother to school, being a bit more responsible.'”
Meanwhile, other family members said the trips to Libya oftentimes included Abedi.
Again, the Daily Mail reported:
“A 16-year-old cousin of Abedi’s who lives near the family house said: ‘He went to Libya two months ago. We go every summer.
“‘I don’t really believe it [that he carried out the attack]. I know him and I know what type of person he is. He’s a nice guy, we play [war videogame] Battlefield on the PS4.’ …
“Neighbour Lina Ahmed, 21, said Abedi had been seen in the street chanting.
“‘They are a Libyan family and he has been acting strangely. A couple of months ago he [Abedi] was chanting the first kalma [Islamic prayer] really loudly in the street. He was chanting in Arabic.
“‘He was saying “There is only one God and the prophet Mohammed is his messenger.'”
Abedi killed 22 and injured at least 119 when he detonated a bomb during a Manchester concert held by Ariana Grande, and well attended by children, their parents and other adults.
His father, Ramadan Abedi, said to the Daily Mail from Tripoli: “We don’t believe in killing innocents. This is not us.”
He also said that his son, when they last spoke five days before the attack, seemed “normal.”
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8 Comments
D
6 years ago
LIBYA, I believe is on Trump’s Travel Ban.
Someone please protest the ninth circuit liberals who are blocking this travel ban.
(and if needs to amended to make it stricter… let it be.).
6 years ago
Reply to
TD
Yes, it is- and certain useful idiots have bleated how unfair it is, since no Libyans had committed terrorist acts in the US of A, so why would the evil Trump want to ban Libyans.
Somehow these limited minds don’t make the connection that if people from Libya, infected as they are with a hate-driven ideology of supremacism, have committed plenty of terrorism in the world (hey, anybody remember Pan Am Flight 707?) then they might be at risk for doing it here too.
6 years ago
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Liatris Spicata
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6 years ago
There is the problem, he never should have been allowed back into the country.
6 years ago
Twenty two innocent lives gone because of some Muslim punk kid reading some verses in the Koran. And Muslims tell us nothing can be changed in their book of hate or eliminated. The only way to solve this is to ban all Muslims or ban the koran and make it a penalty of submitting to terrorism ideals if found in possession of one. They need to put the hammer down hard on this. This has got to stop…
6 years ago
The guy got lucky, up to the point that he blew it. Thanks to Hillary, Qaddafi did not make it out alive.
6 years ago
Libya is another disaster of Obama and Hillary’s that the MSM as usual protect them on and then they all have the nerve to accuse Trump of collusion with Russia to overthrow our election. Our MSM belongs in prison with the democratic party and a few RINO’S as well.
6 years ago
They are Obama’s bros. He set the stage for evil and he accomplished his goal. thank the liberal white Christians who put him into office not once, but twice.
