Re: UK election surprise: Manchester terror attack
Adaryn said:
From the Voltaire Network:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article196455.html
Manchester Attack as MI6 Blowback
25 MAY 2017
According to Scotland Yard, the attack on the crowd leaving the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena, 22 May, has been perpetrated by Salman Abedi. A bankcard has been conveniently found in the pocket of the mutilated corpse of the ‘terrorist’.
This attack is generally interpreted as proof that the United Kingdom is not implicated in international terrorism and that, on the contrary, it is a victim of it.
Salman Abedi was born in the UK of a family of Libyan immigrants. He has travelled to Libya several times in the last couple of months, with or without his father.
His father Ramadan Abedi, with whom Salman lived, is a former officer in [Gaddafi’s] Libyan Intelligence Services. He specialised in the surveillance of the Islamist movement, but two decades later has failed to notice that his son has joined Daesh (IS).
In 1992, Ramadan Abedi was sent back to Libya by Britain’s MI6 and was involved in a British-devised plot to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi. The operation having been readily exposed, he was exfiltrated by MI6 and transferred back to the UK where he obtained political asylum. He moved in 1999 to Whalley Range (south of Manchester) where there was already resident a small Libyan Islamist community.
In 1994, Ramadan Abedi returned again to Libya under MI6’s direction. In late 1995 he is involved in the creation of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a local branch of Al-Qaeda, in conjunction with Abdelhakim Belhadj. The LIFG was then employed by MI6 again to assassinate Gaddafi, for a payoff of £100,000. This operation, which also failed, provoked heated exchanges within British Intelligence, leading to the resignation of one David Shayler.
Other former members of the LIFG have also lived at Whalley Range, including Abedi’s friend Abd al-Baset-Azzouz. In 2009, this last joined Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and became a close associate of its chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri. In 2011, al-Baset-Azzouz is active on the ground with the NATO operation against Libya. On 11 September 2012, he directs the operation against the US Ambassador in Libya, Christopher Stevens, assassinated at Benghazi. He is arrested in Turkey and extradited to the US in December 2014, his trial still pending.
Nobody pays attention to the fact that Ramadan Abedi has linked LIFG members to the formation of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and, in 2011, he takes part in MI6’s ‘Arab Spring’ operations, and in LIFG’s role on the ground in support of NATO. In any event, Abedi returned to Libya after the fall of Gaddafi and moves his family there, leaving his older children in the family home at Whalley Range.
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Daesh has claimed responsibility for the Manchester attack, but without describing Salman Abedi as a ‘martyr’. After the assassination, Ramadan Abedi has declared his opposition to jihad in a telephone conversation with journalists. He has also claimed that his son had intended to spend the month of Ramadan [beginning 26 May] with him in Libya and that he is convinced of his innocence.
Very interesting article. Thanks for Posting this Adaryn.
While reading, I was getting flash-backs to the Boston Bombing and wonder if a similar pattern is being used here?
Salman Abedi is 22 and I don't know the name and age of the older Brother that was just arrested? Tamerlan Tsarnaev was 26 and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, 19 at the time of the Boston bombing. It mimics, one Brother dead and the other one in custody.
Salman Abedi was born in the UK of a family of Libyan immigrants. He has travelled to Libya several times in the last couple of months, with or without his father.
- Salman Abedi would travel from the U.K. to Libya to see his Father (Ramadan Abedi). Ramadan Abedi has MI6 connections.
According to CNN, Tamerlan was born in 1986 from an ethnically Chechen family in Kyrgyzstan. In 2002 his parents immigrated to the United States, leaving Tamerlan in Kazakhstan with an uncle, said a relative in Canada to reporters this week. In July 2003, 16-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev moves to the United States. The Tsarnaev family were all granted refugee status and settled in Cambridge.
_http://heavy.com/news/2013/04/tamerlan-tsarnaev-dzhokhar-boston-marathon-bombings-suspect-number-one/
- Tamerian Tsarnaev travelled from Boston to South Dagestan, Russia to see his Father (Anzor Tsarnaev). Tamerian's Uncle Ruslan had CIA connections.
British police have said they believe the bomber, who returned to Manchester just a few days before the attack, was part of a network and have arrested six people including Abedi's older brother since Monday.
On Wednesday, authorities in Tripoli said that Abedi's younger brother and father, who had resettled in Libya after the revolution, had also been arrested on suspicion of links to the Islamic State (IS) group, which claimed responsibility for Monday's attack.
https://www.sott.net/article/351999-British-Libyan-terrorists-MI5-gave-us-free-passage-to-fight-Gaddafi
The father of the suspected perpetrator of the deadly Manchester terror attack was detained Wednesday in Libya’s capital while he was recording a television interview, media reported.
Father of Manchester Attack's Suspected Perpetrator Detained in Libya
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201705251053958289-father-manchester-bomber-detained/
The father of the suspected attacker, 22-year-old Salman Abedi, was detained by masked armed men, the ITV broadcaster reported, citing eyewitnesses. According to the channel, a total of seven people were detain in connection to the investigation of the terror attack.
The publication of leaked images of the Manchester Arena crime scene and evidence collected there could threaten the integrity of the UK’s active counterterrorism investigation into the horrific suicide bombing attack outside an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night, British police said.
Manchester Attack: New York Times ‘Undermines’ Counter Terror Investigation
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201705251053957911-manchester-attack-newyorktimes-undermines-terror/
On Wednesday, the New York Times published photographs taken by law enforcement of the Manchester Arena attack aftermath, including the explosive’s potential detonator, shrapnel and power source.
The US media has also already published the name of the suspected bomber, despite the objections of UK police. UK officials are "furious" about the photo leak, the Independent reported, and the anger appears to reach the highest levels of government. Several British newspapers say UK Prime Minister Theresa May will confront US President Donald Trump about the leaks at the NATO summit on Thursday.
The UK home secretary, Amber Rudd, made "very clear" to US authorities only hours before the latest leak that they were not to release information on the investigation to the media, the Telegraph pointed out. "This issue is being raised at every relevant level by the British authorities with their US counterparts," Rudd said Wednesday, admitting the premature publication of suspect Salman Abedi’s name left her "irritated."
Trump himself has expressed outrage at the "LEAKERS" in his own government.
Relations between British and US intelligence agencies are under strain after the New York Times published photographs of the Manchester terror attack in what appears to be a leak from within US intelligence services - the second such leak since the explosion, May 22.
Five Eyes Alliance in Turmoil as Britain and US Fall Out Over Manchester Intel
Five Eyes Alliance in Turmoil as Britain and US Fall Out Over Manchester Intel
There has always been close cooperation between British and US intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Both are founder members of the Five Eyes alliance — along with Canada, Australia and New Zealand — which share sensitive information with each other.
The Five Eyes alliance — formed in the aftermath of World War II — is an agreement to share intelligence between the nations. Britain — for its part — relies upon intelligence from the GCHQ communications agency in Cheltenham, which analyzes communication data, including emails, telephones and other electronic information.
The other agencies — MI5 and MI6 — as well as the military and police also share intelligence with their US counterparts, which include the National Security Agency (NSA), the FBI, the CIA and others. There are also very strong links as political and diplomatic level, which underline the "special relationship" between London and Washington.
The fact that the US leaked the name of the attacker — 22-year-old Salman Ramadan Abedi — and now photographs of the debris left in the aftermath of the attack has spooked the UK authorities, who believe there is a breakdown in trust.
The leak of his name put the investigation at serious risk, because it alerted Abedi's family and associates that the police were on to them before raids could be arranged, which meant they could potentially escape from police and the army. UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to discuss the matter urgently when she meets US President Donald Trump, May 25, in Brussels.
Why is the Five Eyes Alliance in turmoil - they just had a secret meeting on April 22nd? Another big secret meeting is schedule for June 1-4 by the
Bilderberg's? There's like "3 weeks" between the Five Eyes Alliance meeting - then the Arianna Grand Manchester Attack - and about "3 weeks" until the Bilderberg meeting? Do these "secret meetings" have anything to do with the Manchester attack?
Five Eyes spying alliance reportedly gather in NZ for secret surveillance conference
https://www.rt.com/viral/385722-five-eyes-spying-alliance/
Bilderberg 2017 bigger and more bad ass than ever
_https://www.intellihub.com/bilderberg-2017-bigger-and-more-bad-ass-than-ever/
CHANTILLY, Virginia — Bilderberg 2017 is going to be bigger and more bad ass than ever as 120 of the world’s most powerful elite meet in secrecy at their privately rented and heavily secured Westfield’s Marriott confab only to be confronted by thousands of protesters over the four-day span.
The meeting takes place June 1-4.
