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May 22 2017, 9:45 pm ET
19 Killed in ‘Appalling Suicide Attack’ After Ariana Grande Concert in U.K.
by Andrew Blankstein, Robert Windrem, Alex Johnson and Tom Winter

At least 19 people were killed and about 50 others were injured in what British Prime Minister Theresa May called "an appalling suicide attack" after an Ariana Grande concert Monday night at Manchester Arena in England, authorities said.

Greater Manchester Police said the incident was being treated as terrorism. A senior White House official told NBC News that President Donald Trump, who is on a visit to Jerusalem, had been briefed.

Police said the explosion took place outside the arena, which is near the Manchester Victoria transit station, as the concert ended at about 10:35 p.m. local time (5:35 p.m. ET), catching people as they exited.
[At Least 20 Killed After Reports of Explosion at Manchester Arena]
At Least 20 Killed After Reports of Explosion at Manchester Arena 3:24

Multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials briefed by British authorities told NBC News that forensic evidence at the scene — including a body found at the blast site — indicated a suicide attack. U.S. officials said initial reports indicated that some of the casualties might have been caused by a stampede of concert-goers.

"My thoughts are with the victims and the families of those affected in what is being treated by the police as an appalling terrorist attack," May said in a brief statement.

A representative of Ariana Grande said the singer, who has millions of young fans around the world, was not hurt. Likewise, Bianca Landrau, the Boston hiphop star known as Bia, who also performed, tweeted: "Guys we are okay!!!"

GUYS WE ARE OKAY !!! THANK YOU WE LOVE YOU ??????
— B I A ?? (@PericoPrincess) May 22, 2017

All lines to Manchester Victoria station were closed, National Rail said in a statement. Northern Railway said the station had been evacuated.
[Police: 'A Number of Confirmed Fatalities' at Manchester Arena]
Police: 'A Number of Confirmed Fatalities' at Manchester Arena 7:05

Ivo Delgado, who attended the event, told NBC News that the concert had just ended when "I just heard a loud bang."

"People started screaming and going to the other side of the arena," said Delgado, who said he saw at least one person with blood on his face.

Steve Rotheram, mayor of the Liverpool City Region, tweeted that his two daughters had been in attendance and were safe.

"But I fear for others," he said.

Manchester Arena, which opened in 1995, is one of the largest indoor arenas in Europe. More than 1 million people fill its 21,000 seats every year.

This is a developing story. Refresh this page for updates.


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/deaths...aturing-n763286

The Daily Mail has some graphic pictures and description:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ist-attack.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ster-Arena.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ror-attack.html


Zero and Hitlery must be so proud of themselves for enabling the rise of ISIS and flooding the country with un vetted 'refugees'

Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #4

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British authorities on Tuesday identified the suicide bomber who launched a deadly attack at a Manchester Ariana Grande concert, hours after the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility for the blast.

Salman Abedi, 22, was identified as the man who detonated an improvised explosive device at about 10:30 p.m. local time Monday, killing more than 20 people, some of them children, and injuring dozens more, Manchester police confirmed in a news conference on Tuesday. At least 12 children under the age of 16 were injured, emergency responders said. An 8-year-old girl was among the dead.

A European security official told the Associated Press that Abedi was British. No additional details about Abedi were immediately available

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/23/...lman-abedi.html

I have a strong suspicion as to at least one more "additional detail." Will nothing wake the Europeans up, or us, to the asp they and we are embracing to our bosoms?

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I have read on various news sites he was born in England of Libyan Parents who returned to Libya after Gaddaffi was killed. (Gadaffi kept Moslem terrorists under control. He was a secular dictator. After his death sundry Moslem terrorists groups took over Libya.)

It has been reported that police arrested his brother

Looking for links

It seems Islamic Terrorism is a family business

Manchester bomber Salman Abedi's father and brothers arrested, linked to ISIS, Al Qaeda
Published May 24, 2017
Fox News

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.

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.

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.

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."

"We don't believe in killing innocents. This is not us,” he said.

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/24/...icial-says.html


Note Jihadis do no consider any non-Moslem an innocent. That includes women and children.