Jim Lincoln wrote:
Mike, this was a more sophisticated explosive device than the authorities were expecting. So, they were afraid more of them would be scattered around the city/country.
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Imo, so far there has been nothing said that makes the device "more sophisticated." You have a psych degree, surely you know the method of defending when no one has attacked. The best defense is a good offense, so to speak. Calling the device sophisticated kind of gives excuse for not preventing its use. The reason it was missed is because authorities paid attention to people entering the stadium; no one to the leaving.

was stable

qaddafi warned the west that they were going to be infiltrated by massive Islamic invasion.

not that he was going to do it, but that it was going to happen on the course of action the west was taking.

and so qaddafi, not a good man for his past deeds, but a nationalist who took care of his people, and was building a gold standard for Africa... was mutilated in the streets...

...by jihadists... who did the bidding of world chess players.

and then ambassador stevens was eliminated at Benghazi.

and arms went through turkey? to Syria?

and then "ISIS" "freedom fighters" in a "civil war" - invaded and destabilized eliminating Christians

...meanwhile the lobbies got on board and preached "multiculturalism" (which suddenly meant accepting sharia) and Wahhabi school was put into curriuculms, schools, mosques throughout west and the invasion was moved into Europe and US through the mechanisms of world chess players...

....who would sent brigades to Libya to pick these men up and bring them to their lands.

..and in turn this men would turn up in case after case of mass rapes, street brutality, would return to Libya, now in chaos, unleashed on britians streets

Apparently what was new was big mouth American authorities talking about what was going on before the British police could move in on some of the suspects.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
--[URL=http://tinyurl.com/lbbp57f]]] http://tinyurl.com/lbbp57f (Authorities find bomb-making workshop in Abedi's home, officials say)[/URL]
See this article, Mike!

ISIS claims Salmanella as a "soldier of the caliphate." Of course there's a network. He went to Libya, and returned and made a bomb. His brother said he watched ISIS videos online, including bomb-making info, since 2015. Do the authorities really think someone else had to help him directly make it, because it was so...sophisticated?

Add this to
"Authorities tell.."
"Authorities suspect.."
"According to a terrorism expert.."
:investigators believe.."
"If true, it would be.."

Looks to me like a fuzzy and speculative article, designed to implement fear.

ABC News wrote:
Authorities tell ABC News that they found a kind of bomb-making workshop in Salman Abedi’s home and he had apparently stockpiled enough chemicals to make additional bombs.

The hunt is intensifying for what British authorities suspect is a possible “network” behind the deadly suicide blast outside an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on Monday, officials say....

“I think it’s very clear that this is a network that we are investigating,” Ian Hopkins, chief constable of the Greater Manchester Police, said in a press briefing.

According to a terrorism expert who has been briefed on the investigation, the bomb featured a sophisticated design similar to the bombs used in the attacks in Brussels in 2016....

British officials expressed anger at American security officials over the leak to U.S. news media of Abedi's name hours after the attack, when they already realized he might have accomplices they needed to locate as fast as possible to prevent more lives being lost in a followup attack, one senior western official told ABC News today. [ ]

Alan Dershowitz wrote:
If we are to have any chance of reducing terrorism, we must get to its root cause. It is not poverty, disenfranchisement, despair or any of the other abuse excuses offered to explain, if not to justify, terrorism as an act of desperation. It is anything but. Many terrorists, such as those who participated in the 9/11 attacks, are educated, well-off, mobile and even successful. They make a rational cost-benefit decision to murder innocent civilians for one simple reason: they believe that terrorism works.

And tragically, they are right. The international community has rewarded terrorism while punishing those who try to fight it by reasonable means....The treatment of the Tibetans by China, the Kurds by most of the Arab world, and the Chechen people by Russia has been terrible – but their response to grievances has been largely ignored by the international community and the media because they mostly sought remedies within the law rather than through terrorism.

Other groups with grievances have learned from the success of Palestinian terrorism and have emulated the use of that barbaric tactic.

Now that the UK politicians and Liberalist socialists and friends have opened the doors to this culture of hate barbarity and hostility that is Muslim, The country will see this kind of murderous activity grow and expand.

The idea of integration or amalgamation of peoples from the east of this religion ignores the strength of commitment to their religious ideologies. What in effect they are allowing is the planting of a seed of a culture which hates all others and seeks to overcome them and take over.

The politicians and Liberalists are wrong and the nation will ultimately pay the price of Satan's religious reprobates.

Christ taught:
"John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."

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Who did it?...

Could the attack realistically have been stopped?...

Why target children?...

I think the first and last question has been answered and in all likelihood the 2nd one can be as well. No.

You can also CSM's Terror quiz [URL=http://tinyurl.com/mwdz63y]]]http://tinyurl.com/mwdz63y (How much do you know about terrorism? Take the quiz.)[/URL]

Hey! I did better than the average reader anyway! on the quiz.

But no, Mike, one has to look to Israel for containing terrorist attacks, and I think they would agree controlling terrorist they don't have a perfect record.

Jpost wrote:
Netanyahu added that security forces are constantly fighting terrorism and prevented several attacks in recent days.

“Our forces will continue protecting Israelis around the clock,” he said....

Likud MK Oren Hazan took issue with media reports that the terrorist was mentally ill, saying, “A terrorist is a terrorist and must be eliminated.”

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Well, Mike, several experts thought it was more sophisticated than most attacks. There was planning put into it and the explosive device itself was not that simple.
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Vivienne Clarke wrote:
"The terror attack on a concert in Manchester on Monday night was sophisticated and well planned, a terror expert has said.
At least 22 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked fans leaving the Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester Arena. A further 60 people were hurt.
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“This person was more organised, the suicide vest, the explosives - whether made or bought,” he told BBC Radio 4."
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"More organised." Why? He had only to organize his thoughts. Same reason.

2. Sophisticated(of a machine, system, or technique) developed to a high degree of complexity.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Well, Mike, several experts thought it was more sophisticated than most attacks. There was planning put into it and the explosive device itself was not that simple. It certainly may have been a family affair in other words when it comes to doing this terrorist act.
--[URL=http://tinyurl.com/mke2omn]]]qhttp://tinyurl.com/mke2omn (Attack timed specifically to impact people leaving concert)[/URL]
So, SteveR, what you say may or may not be true, but it was done with more sophistication then the latest terrorist attacks have been done with, and with more people involved.

Vivienne Clarke wrote:
The terror attack on a concert in Manchester on Monday night was sophisticated and well planned, a terror expert has said.

At least 22 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked fans leaving the Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester Arena. A further 60 people were hurt.

Former head of the UK’s national counter terrorism office, Chris Philips, told BBC Radio 4 that the immediate concern for police will be to identify the person who carried out the suicide attack and any possible accomplices.

“This person was more organised, the suicide vest, the explosives - whether made or bought,” he told BBC Radio 4.

Mike wrote:
"Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: "[Monday's attack] was more sophisticated than some of the attacks we've seen before, and it seems likely - possible - that he wasn't doing this on his own."'
Ok, I'll bite. What is "more sophisticated" about a guy blowing himself up in the foyer of a stadium? Even barbarians can figure out if one thing won't work, try another.

The largest terror incident, next to Bishopgate, in post WW2 history occurred in Manchester, when the IRA detonated a 3000 lb bomb in the city. The IRA warned the city, and 75k people were evacuated. ISIL by making this small attack in Manchester is threatening an IRA scale type bomb, but they wont warn officials like the IRA did

Arthur Bright wrote:
Why target children? The most upsetting aspect of the Manchester attack is that it targeted an event primarily attended by the teenage and pre-teen girls that make up Ms. Grande’s fan base. That’s likely not an accident. Terrorist attacks in Europe have becoming disturbingly familiar, enough so that they sometimes fail to shock an evermore inured public....

All these attacks were tragic, and no victim is worth less than any other. But from the perspective of terrorists who are trying to stir anger and fear across Europe, the more familiar attacks become, the less effective they are. A terrorist act that provokes a stoic response is a failure.

ABC News Radio wrote:
Following Monday's bombing that killed 22 and injured 59 at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, there are currently no plans to make significant security changes in the United States, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.

The DHS official said that the federal security posture in the U.S. is already at high levels and that there is not much more to be done in the aftermath of the attack, allegedly carried out by 22-year-old Salman Abedi with an improvised explosive device outside the concert at the Manchester Arena.

The official did insist that federal authorities will continually assess whether any new measures are warranted.