According to police, Abedi, 22, acted alone in the run up to the \u201cawful\u201d<\/em> attack on the concert venue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n After the attack, police immediately sought to determine whether Libyan-born Abedi was part of a wider terrorist \u201cnetwork.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Amid concerns that Abedi did not operate alone but as part of a wider terrorist cell that was still at large, the national terrorism threat was raised from \u2018severe\u2019 to \u2018critical\u2019, the highest level possible, implying that an attack is imminent. The investigation has focused on examining hours of CCTV footage.<\/p>\n \u201cMuch of the investigation has been painstakingly working through Salman Abedi\u2019s last movements.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe have done this by examining his movements on CCTV and other interactions he has had whether it be with people or the phone calls he has made,\u201d<\/em> said Detective Chief Superintendent Jackson, according to the Guardian.<\/p>\n \u201cWith specialist support we have also a good understanding of the likely component parts of the bomb and where these came from.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Abedi is thought to have visited Libya, his home country, before returning to the UK on May 18, four days before the attack.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n \u201cOur enquiries show Abedi himself made most of the purchases of the core [bomb] components and what is becoming apparent is that many of his movements and actions have been carried out alone during the four days from him landing in the country and committing this awful attack,\u201d<\/em> Jackson said.<\/p>\n Up to 16 people were arrested in connection with the attack, 11 of which, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, are still in police custody. Three were released without charge on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cWe still have a number of people in custody and we will be seeking to extend the custody of some of them as we work to understand what has gone on and whether Abedi was helped,\u201d<\/em> the newspaper reported Jackson saying.<\/p>\n Jackson stressed it is \u201cvital\u201d<\/em> that police can guarantee Abedi, whose elder brother in Manchester was also arrested following the attack, was not part of a wider network.<\/p>\n CCTV images capture Abedi wandering along Wilmslow Road with a blue suitcase. Police are now \u201cespecially keen\u201d<\/em> to figure out why he kept returning to the street, known as the Curry Mile because of its abundance of South-Asian cuisine, and what he was dragging behind him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Salman Abedi shopped alone for most of the components used to build the suicide bomb he detonated in Manchester Arena last week, killing 22 and injuring dozens more. According to police, Abedi, 22, acted alone in the run up to the \u201cawful\u201d attack on the concert venue.\u00a0\u00a0 Read more After the attack, police immediately sought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":310768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310767","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=310767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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However, after a seven-day investigation involving 1,000 officers and hundreds of witnesses, it seems Abedi\u2019s movements and acts were \u201ccarried out alone,\u201d<\/em> according to head of the North West counter-terrorism unit Ross Jackson, and the terrorism threat was brought back down to \u2018severe\u2019.<\/p>\n
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