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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   So, All the cameras, all the spying om UK citizens all   
   the arrests/threats over social media posts and spoken word   
   prevent nothing. Jihadists continue on.   
      
   Manchester attack: Suspect visited Syria and had 'proven' ties to ISIS,   
   French minister says   
      
   The man British police say blew himself up as a packed concert was   
   letting out in Manchester, England Monday night is believed to have   
   traveled to Syria and had "proven" links with ISIS.   
      
   France's interior minister Gerard Collomb said Wednesday that British and   
   French intelligence have information that Salman Abedi, 22, had been to Syria,   
   although it is unclear if he was apart of a larger network of attackers.    
      
   Collomb spoke with British Prime Minister Theresa May and said the two   
   countries should continue cooperating closely on counterterrorism efforts   
   despite Britain's pending exit from the European Union.   
      
   It was also reported the attacker had recently returned to the U.K. from Libya   
   days before the attack, according to his friends.   
      
   Abedi — who was born in Britain to Libyan parents — had traveled to the   
   war-torn North African nation "three weeks ago and came back, like, days ago,"   
   a friend told The Times of London.   
      
   Now, investigators are attempting to learn whether the university dropout   
   attended a terrorist training camp in Libya, where ISIS and Al Qaeda fighters   
   are engaged in a bloody war against government forces.    
      
      
   Meanwhile, the Sun newspaper reported that authorities were also looking at   
   the possibility that Abedi had traveled to Syria from Libya without drawing   
   the notice of British authorities.    
      
   "His potential ties to Syria now very much forms one line of inquiry," one   
   source told the Sun late Tuesday.    
      
   However, security sources told The Times that their top priority is   
   determining who constructed the bomb that caused such carnage at the   
   Manchester Arena Monday night. Detectives who have viewed closed-circuit TV   
   footage tell the paper that Abedi placed    
   an explosive-laden suitcase on the ground in the foyer of Manchester Arena at   
   around 10:30 p.m., as a concert by pop star Ariana Grande was ending.   
      
   Moments later, the bomb exploded, killing at least 22 people and injuring   
   nearly 120 others. It was the deadliest terror attack on U.K. soil since a   
   quartet of suicide bombers killed 52 people in central London in July 2005.    
      
   As Great Britain's terror threat was raised to its highest level for the first   
   time in a decade, counterterrorism officers feared that the person who   
   constructed the "sophisticated" explosive device could be on the loose.   
      
   Earlier Tuesday, at least 20 heavily armed, helmeted police surrounded a house   
   listed as Abedi's address in the Fallowfield area of south Manchester and   
   blasted down the door.   
      
   The British electoral roll lists Salman Abedi and Ismail Abedi as current   
   residents of the house. Others with the same name are recorded as living there   
   in previous years. Ismail Abedi, 23, was arrested on a nearby street and   
   remained in custody Tuesday    
   evening.   
      
   Neighbors remembered the suspected suicide bomber as a tall, thin young man   
   who often wore traditional Islamic dress.   
      
   Alan Kinsey, 52, who lives across the street, told the Associated Press he had   
   seen "a lot of different people living there" in the past but in the last six   
   months or more had only seen one young man in his 20s. Kinsey said he would   
   often get picked up    
   by another young man in a Toyota and often returned late.   
      
   "I thought he worked in a takeaway or something" because of his late hours,   
   Kinsey said.   
      
   Other neighbors said Abedi had grown a beard in the past year, would chant   
   Islamic prayers loudly in the street and flew the green flag of Libyan   
   Islamists from the roof of his house.   
      
   A male relative of Abedi's told the Sun that he had seen him approximately ten   
   days before the attack looking "happy, relaxed and smiling."   
      
   The family member added that Abedi's parents had recently returned to Libya,   
   having initially fled to Britain to escape the rule of late dictator Muammar   
   Qaddafi. He added that the suspected terrorist had been a keen soccer fan,   
   supporting European club    
   giants Manchester United and Real Madrid.    
      
   "We can't believe it. We can't take it in. It is terrible," the family member   
   said of the attack. "It shows that it takes a short amount of time [to] change   
   someone, sometimes."   
      
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