Libyan Official: Manchester Bomber’s Family Linked to al-Qaeda
As the investigation into the May 22 bomb attack in Manchester, England, by Salman Abedi continues, there are indications that Salman’s family in Libya had connections to the Islamic State (ISIS) and al-Qaeda. Abedi, the 23-year-old man identified as the suicide bomber who killed 22 people and injured 59 others, was born in Manchester to parents who had emigrated from Libya.
The latest reports by several news sources on May 24 revealed that Libyan officials have arrested Abedi’s father and two brothers — Hashem (shown) and Ismail — and have also uncovered what investigators described as a plot for a new attack. Ramadan Abedi, the bomber’s father, was arrested in Tripoli, Libya’s capital, on May 24, a Libyan security spokesman told the Associated Press.
Fox News reported further that two U.S. defense officials confirmed to the network that Salman Abedi spent three weeks in Libya prior to the...
