Britain’s domestic counter-intelligence agency (MI5) has launched an inquiry into how it missed warnings from the public about the threat posed by the man behind the Manchester terrorist attack.
“There is a lot of information coming out at the moment about what happened, how this occurred, what people might or might not have known,” Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the media on Monday.
She made the remarks in the wake of several arrests, which made authorities lower the terrorism threat level, citing progress in the investigation.
“It is right that MI5 take a look to find out what the facts are,” she said, adding, “We shouldn’t rush to make any conclusions at this stage.”
Media reported that MI5 was alerted at least three times to the “extremist views” of Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old who grew up in Manchester in a family of immigrants from Libya.
