A total of 14 people are in detention in Britain and Libya over Monday’s suicide bombing at a pop concert in the English city of Manchester by a British-born man of Libyan origin.
The unfolding of the high-profile Manchester bombing case highlights what counter-jihadists have been warning about for years: that a globalized jihad network is operating against infidels, and many of its members are moving freely in the general populations of our once free societies. Although the UK terrorist threat has been downgraded, other members of the Manchester bomber’s network are said to be “potentially” be at large.
Islamic jihad — fueled by Islamic religious zeal — will continue to proliferate in the West as leftist ideologues and many cowards on the right protect them, all in the name of “diversity.”
“Manchester Attack Investigations: 14 People Detained in Britain and Libya”, Breitbart, May 28, 2017:
A total of 14 people are in detention in Britain and Libya over Monday’s suicide bombing at a pop concert in the English city of Manchester by a British-born man of Libyan origin.
A teenage boy and a woman arrested by British police this week have since been released without charge, leaving 12 in British custody who were arrested “on suspicion of offences contrary to the terrorism act”.In Libya, the father and brother of the bomber, Salman Abedi, are also in detention.
Abedi reportedly returned from Libya only a few days before the attack which killed 22 people, including seven children under 18, but police are still trying to establish the extent of his wider network.
Here are the details of the arrests so far:
– Tuesday, May 23 –
– Police arrest a 24-year-old man in the Chorlton area of south Manchester near where Abedi is believed to have lived. Police had earlier given the man’s age as 23.
An eyewitness told AFP that police shouted at the man to lie on the ground before taking him away. British media indicated that the man is highly likely to be Abedi’s older brother Ismael.
The brother was described in media reports as “outgoing” compared to Salman, who was “very quiet”.
– Wednesday, May 24 –
– Police arrest three more men in south Manchester aged 18, 21 and 24, a short walk from the house where Abedi lived.
Omar Alfaqhuri, a neighbour who lives just in front of a house that was raided, said he saw “a massive deployment of police forces” during the nighttime arrest and a man he named as “Adel” handcuffed and taken away.
“They blocked the whole street,” he said, adding that his neighbours were a “nice quiet family”.
– An 18-year-old man, who police said was carrying a suspect package, is arrested in Wigan, a town near Manchester. No further details were given about him.
– Another man, 22, is arrested in the town of Nuneaton in central England, widening the British police probe beyond areas in and around Manchester.
– Libya’s Deterrence Force, which acts as the police of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord, arrests Abedi’s father Ramadan, adding that it had already arrested his brother Hashem on Tuesday.
A spokesman said that the brother was aware of Abedi’s attack plan and that both men belonged to the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
Abedi’s father reportedly protested his son’s innocence in the hours before his arrest.
– In Manchester, a 34-year-old woman is arrested by police in an apartment block in Blackley, in the north of the city. She is later released without charge.
– Thursday, May 25 –
– A 16-year-old boy is arrested in Withington, south Manchester. He is later released without charge.
– A 38-year-old man is arrested in Blackley.
– Friday, May 26 –
– A 30-year-old man is arrested in Moss Side, an area of Manchester which has been associated with social deprivation and gangs.
– A 44-year-old man is arrested in Rusholme, in the south of the city.
– Saturday, May 27 –
– Two men aged 20 and 22 are arrested following a raid, involving a controlled explosion, at an address in Cheatham Hill, north Manchester….
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – “A total of 14 people are in detention in Britain and Libya over Monday’s suicide bombing at a pop concert in the English city of Manchester by a British-born man of Libyan origin.
A teenage boy and a woman arrested by British police this week have since been released without charge, leaving 12 in British custody who were arrested “on suspicion of offences contrary to the terrorism act”.”
Rewrite – “A total of 14 Muslims are in detention in Britain and Libya over Monday’s suicide bombing at a pop concert in the English city of Manchester by a British-born Muslim man whose parents came to Britain from Libya.
“A Muslim teenage boy and a Muslim woman arrested by British police this week have since been released without charge, leaving 12 Muslims in British custody who were arrested “on suspicion of offences contrary to the terrorism act”.”
There. Fixed it.
Their Muslimness is so far from being irrelevant, that it is in fact *the* one single factor that matters: not their citizenship status (British or other), or their gender or age.
Had the human bomb’s parents, after arriving in Britain, apostasised from Islam and become out-and-out atheists (like Wafa Sultan, Taslima Nasreen, Ibn Warraq, Bosch Fawstin) or else converted to old-fashioned evangelical Christianity or traditional Catholic Christianity, and raised their children in a consistently-presented non-Islamic belief system and cultural context, then… there would have been *no* human bomb. He wouldn’t have been blowing himself up.
But they stayed within the Ummah, they *pickled* young Abedin in Islam from birth, and the result is… mass-murderous carnage among young Infidel people, mostly girls.
THAT is the reality that our journalists and politicians are studiously avoiding.
overman says
“Their Muslimness is so far from being irrelevant, that it is in fact *the* one single factor that matters: not their citizenship status (British or other), or their gender or age”
Yes, and l might add ‘or their mental health status’.
“or else converted to old-fashioned evangelical Christianity or traditional Catholic Christianity”
Unfortunately, you can’t trust them even if they do convert. There have been hundreds of refugees who coverted to Christianity in order to get asylum in the UK – apparently they get a Baptismal certificate, which is all they need to get in. l imagine these certificates would be easy to obtain for Jihadi’s anyway.
Of course, they only have to say the Shahada to revert back.
gravenimage says
The idea that Britain is giving asylum to Christians and not to Muslims is *quite* mistaken, I’m afraid. I wish it *were* true.
overman says
A law banning ppl like salman abedi [he fought in Libya and was allowed to return] was introduced two years ago in the UK, but for some unfathomable reason has only been used once.
“UNUSED POWERS: Only ONE British jihadist has been banned from the UK under new laws, Home Secretary admits”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3672385/only-one-british-jihadist-has-been-banned-from-the-uk-under-new-laws-home-secretary-admits/
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
If I didn’t know better I’d say that England has slipped into Islamophobia. Why is it that 14 Moslems were arrested, what about some Infidel anarchists, BLM racists and Hindu separatists? Why is it all Moslems, what’s supposedly holding this group of 14 together?
John A. Marre says
There will be more attacks. While the UK arrests and jails people who complain about the influx of Jihadis, the Jihadis are enjoying their Holy Month of Ramadan to pray and to learn how to better kill infidels.
isabella says
Put them in the H blocks
Oh sorry that is only for the Irish
These guys have human rights
mortimer says
UK has a few thousand jihadis ready to conduct jihad. A number of UK jihadis may act before the end of Ramadan on June 24, 2017.
A number of procrastinators may do a Ramadan blitz at or near the end of Ramadan…ending it with a bang.
(no sarc)
gravenimage says
Manchester jihad bombing: 14 Muslims detained in Britain and Libya
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Gee–I guess he wasn’t a “lone wolf” after all…
TruthWFree says
Execute the Islamic killers (if they don’t suicide) and deport their entire families who may have know beforehand…or may not have known beforehand. That is the only way that the West will get the enablers of this Islamic allah god madness turned in before hand….if even then. But keep deporting and stop the Islamic immigration. Trump needs to roll over these stupid judges who have stopped his EO immigration pause. Trump has 50 million plus behind him on the immigration ban.
Tom says
When are they going to catch those dastardly right wing christians who the left keeps telling us cause such hurt feeling amongst those ever so peaceful muslims? It’s just not fair that they only seem to be pursuing Islamic radicals …. that’s racist and islamaphobic don’t ya know !!