Manchester Arena inquiry: Arena bomber’s father part of militia, terrorist says

November 25, 2021   

(BBC) A convicted terrorist has admitted he was in the same Libyan militia group as the Manchester Arena bomber’s father.

Abdalraouf Abdallah, a friend of Salman Abedi, was brought from HMP Wakefield to give evidence at the Manchester Arena inquiry into the 2017 attack.

The 28-year-old accepted he joined the “Tripoli Brigade” in the Libyan war in 2011 and that Ramadan Abedi — Salman’s father — was also part of the militia.

MI5 consider Ramadan played a role in radicalising sons Hashem and Salman.

Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated his device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.

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