{"id":310156,"date":"2017-05-28T04:54:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T03:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/manchester-bomber-salman-abedi-trained-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2017-05-28T04:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T03:54:38","slug":"manchester-bomber-salman-abedi-trained-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/manchester-bomber-salman-abedi-trained-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester bomber Salman Abedi \u2018trained in Syria\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.05\/thumbnail\/59254bacc361881d4f8b458a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 24 May, 2017 11:15 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 25 May, 2017 12:57 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi had traveled to Libya recently and is suspected of having been trained in Syria.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>Abedi had only recently returned from Libya when he detonated a suicide bomb which killed 22 people, including children, at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester Arena.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A US intel official tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\">@nbcnews<\/a> members of bomber&#8217;s family warned sec officials about him in past, that he was \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardEngel\/status\/867356931203182592\">May 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told television journalists that Abedi was believed to have recently been in Syria and had \u201c<em>proven<\/em>\u201d links to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL).<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French Interior Minister says Manchester bomber is believed to have travelled to Syria and had &#8220;proven&#8221; links with Islamic State<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky News Newsdesk (@SkyNewsBreak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNewsBreak\/status\/867288750614884354\">May 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>He may have attended a training camp while there and, Collomb claimed, was known to both French and British security services.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Briton is also reported to have been an associate of Manchester IS recruiter Raphael Hostey \u2013 known as Abu Qaqa al-Britani \u2013 who was killed in Syria by a drone strike in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Abedi was from a family of Libyan origin, and his parents fled the east of Libya in 1990 to escape persecution by the North African state\u2019s late ruler Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">16 jihadists, who&#8217;ve either been convicted or travelled to Syria and fought with IS, hail from a similar part of Manchester to Salem Abedi.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Videcette (@DavidVidecette) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidVidecette\/status\/867287136885760002\">May 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>He attended university in Manchester but dropped out.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Telegraph, the area of Manchester in which Abedi lived was home to a number of dissidents linked to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a well-known Al-Qaeda-oriented group which is still operating in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was Abd al-Baset Azzouz, who left Manchester to go to Libya and run a 200-300-strong militant network for Osama Bin Laden\u2019s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TNHepdXRUs4?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Azzouz is reported to be an expert bomb-maker. Abedi reportedly clashed with his local imam over anti-IS speeches the preacher had started to give.<\/p>\n<p>Didsbury imam Mohammed Saeed El-Saeit told the Telegraph on Tuesday that \u201c<em>Salman showed me the face of hate after my speech on ISIS.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>He used to show me the face of hate and I could tell this person does not like me. It\u2019s not a surprise to me.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear when Abedi became radicalized, and the question of whether he did so on his own or with encouragement from others is likely to become a major issue in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The bomber\u2019s family is reported to have largely returned to Libya, leaving Abedi and his brother Ismail living at the Manchester property raided by police and special forces on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/389560-salman-abedi-manchester-terrorism\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 24 May, 2017 11:15 Edited time: 25 May, 2017 12:57 Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi had traveled to Libya recently and is suspected of having been trained in Syria. 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