{"id":310648,"date":"2017-05-31T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/terror-in-britain-what-did-the-prime-minister-know\/"},"modified":"2017-05-31T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:22:38","slug":"terror-in-britain-what-did-the-prime-minister-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/terror-in-britain-what-did-the-prime-minister-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496227802076_14685\">\n<p>The unsayable in Britain\u2019s general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Critical questions \u2013 such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist \u201cassets\u201d in Manchester and why the government did not warn the public of the threat in their midst \u2013 remain unanswered, deflected by the promise of an internal \u201creview\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was part of an extremist group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, that thrived in Manchester and was cultivated and used by MI5 for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The LIFG is proscribed by Britain as a terrorist organisation which seeks a \u201chardline Islamic state\u201d in Libya and \u201cis part of the wider global Islamist extremist movement, as inspired by al-Qaida\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csmoking gun\u201d is that when Theresa May was Home Secretary, LIFG jihadists were allowed to travel unhindered across Europe and encouraged to engage in \u201cbattle\u201d: first to remove Mu\u2019ammar Gadaffi in Libya, then to join al-Qaida affiliated groups in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the FBI reportedly placed Abedi on a \u201cterrorist watch list\u201d and warned MI5 that his group was looking for a \u201cpolitical target\u201d in Britain. Why wasn\u2019t he apprehended and the network around him prevented from planning and executing the atrocity on 22 May?<\/p>\n<p>These questions arise because of an FBI leak that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/05\/31\/terror-in-britain-what-did-the-prime-minister-know\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unsayable in Britain\u2019s general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy. Critical questions \u2013 such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist \u201cassets\u201d in Manchester and why the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}