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First picture of Salman Abedi was released on Wednesday morning. • He was born in the UK and turned to radical Islam in recent years. He was known to British spies. • Abedi went on "secret jihadi training during family trips to Syria," according to The Sun. • The BBC reported that Abedi was acting as a "mule" for a bomb maker, who remains on the run. • His Manchester address was searched on Tuesday, with forensic experts finding a book titled "Know Your Chemicals!" LONDON — Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old suicide bomber at Manchester Arena on Monday night, was...

• Several key details about the investigation into the Manchester terror attack were leaked to the media by US officials. • The Home Secretary suggests the "operational integrity" of the investigation was at risk. • British officials have expressed their "irritation" to the US. • Trump administration has come under scrutiny for leaks of confidential intelligence. LONDON — Home Secretary Amber Rudd condemned US officials for risking the "operational integrity" of the ongoing investigation into the Manchester terror attack, after they leaked confidential details to the US media before they had been confirmed by British police. Business Insider reported on...

Manchester’s Islamist Appeasing Police and Politicians Have Blood on Their Hands Muslim sex grooming paved the way for the Manchester Arena attack. May 24, 2017 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. In the months before weeping little girls with nails in their faces were carried out of the Manchester Arena, the authorities of that city were hard at work fighting the dreaded threat of Islamophobia. While Salman Abedi, the second-generation Muslim refugee terrorist who maimed and killed dozens in a brutal...

Descriptions of the alleged plot uncovered by British authorities have distinct echoes of the so-called Operation Bojinka, an attempt by supporters of al Qaeda in the mid-1990s to simultaneously destroy airliners over the Pacific using liquid explosives. The explosives, which can be hidden in a small bottle, like those used for contact lens solution, are hard to detect, and were originally developed by Yousef, whose uncle, Mohammed, was the chief architect of the 9/11 attacks. In December 1994, Yousef tested his device using a fraction of the explosives planned for the main bombs. Halfway through the short flight, Yousef disappeared...