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Bombshell development in the Seth Rich murder case following /pol/ fbianon hint to look at Donna Brazile:
BOMBSHELL: DONNA BRAZILE WARNED OFF PRIVATE EYE ON SETH RICH MURDER
Ex-DNC chairwoman reportedly asked cops why investigator is ‘snooping’ into mysterious case
http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/bombshell-donna-brazile-probing-seth-rich-murder-says-private-eye/
OK – perhaps conspiracy theory area.
But, given that several days ago, an intern who attended Seth Rich in the ER stated that his wounds were non-life-threatening, but that all med staff except attending MD and one nurse were permitted to enter Seth Rich’s room following the initial emergency surgery, this 4chan/pol/ anon post adds a sinister twist to the whole story:
? ? LISA KOUNTOUPLES, FRIEND OF JOHN PODESTA AND **WIFE OF SETH’S ATTENDING DOCTOR**, VISITED WHITE HOUSE ON MAY 31 FOR MEETING MADE ON MAY 26 WHILE PODESTA WAS VISITING WHITE HOUSE ? ? (self.The_Donald)
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6d03qm/lisa_kountouples_friend_of_john_podesta_and_wife/
Also found a connection to Uranium One:
https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=E1BF4232-5036-458A-9392-E6C7CD97E388&filingTypeID=51
OK – I am about to buy shares in tinfoil-producing companies:
A doctor working at the hospital Seth Rich was taken to, was also on a guestlist for a Podesta fundraiser. That doctor works for the trauma unit. What an odd coincidence.
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6d0349/a_doctor_working_at_the_hospital_seth_rich_was/
Manchester attack: Man with axe held at Birmingham vigil
A vigil in Birmingham held in memory of the victims of the Manchester Arena attack was disrupted by the arrest of man allegedly carrying weapons.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-40022644/manchester-attack-man-with-axe-held-at-birmingham-vigil
Again, this is either tin-foil-hat area or something significant. Having followed several of these stories/event-threads (especially Kim Dotcom) myself, it seems to me to fill in a lot of gaps…if true. Honestly, I don’t know, but please, judge for yourselves:
https://contraspin.co.nz/someone-is-lying-to-seth-richs-family-about-kim-dotcom/
Manchester Bomb Suspect Said to Have Had Ties to al Qaeda, Terrorism Training Abroad
by ALEXANDER SMITH, RICHARD ENGEL, TOM WINTER, ALEX JOHNSON and CORKY SIEMASZKO
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MANCHESTER, England — Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old British man believed to have killed 22 people in a suicide-bomb attack, had ties to al Qaeda and had received terrorist training abroad, a U.S. intelligence official told NBC News on Tuesday as the United Kingdom raised its terrorist threat level to the highest category.
The U.S. intelligence official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, said Abedi, whose family is of Libyan descent, was identified by a bank card found in his pocket at the scene of the explosion after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena. The identification was confirmed by facial recognition technology, the official said.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/manchester-concert-explosion/manchester-bomb-suspect-said-have-had-ties-al-qaeda-terrorism-n763691
Good heavens! Blasphemy law remains in New Zealand after National and Maori Party vote down repeal video
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/92922057/blasphemy-law-remains-in-new-zealand-after-national-and-maori-party-vote-down-repeal
Not sure what to make of this:
Following Sean Hannity’s embarrassing buckling on coverage of the Seth Rich case, sources at Fox News told Big League Politics that he was pressured to relent by one of the Murdochs.
“One of the Murdoch sons was all up his ass over this,” another insider told Big League Politics.
Prior to airtime, Hannity had tweeted, “huge announcement tonight about Seth Rich, Trump/Russian Collusion corrupt media, the liberal effort to silence me. And my future at Fox!”
But as we reported, it turned out that his “huge announcement” was that he was caving into pressure and would no longer be covering the story “at this time.”
While his statements on the show indicated that he was cowering to Media Matters, who had called for a boycott of his advertisers — it seems that one of Murdoch’s sons was actually behind it.
http://bigleaguepolitics.com/exclusive-murdoch-son-pressured-sean-hannity-cease-seth-rich-coverage/
SEAN HANNITY: “I Am Not FoxNews.com; I RETRACTED NOTHING!”
4chan made these connections:
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Tommy Robinson in Manchester:
Man pleads guilty to ‘marrying’ 14-year-old girl amid spate of underage girls forced to become child brides (independent, May 23, 2017)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/14-year-old-melbourne-mosque-girl-forced-marriage-man-20-years-older-a7750061.html
“A 14-year-old girl was forced to marry a man 20 years her senior in a Melbourne mosque, a court has heard.
In video footage of the ceremony, the young teenager can be seen dressed in a light-blue headscarf in a tiny room hidden at the back of the suburban mosque as she waits in silence to be married to a man she has reportedly known for just a few days.
The ceremony took place last September but the film has come to light amid a dramatic increase in reports of forced underage marriages in Australia in the past few years.
Mohammad Shakir, now 35, sobbed in court as he pleaded guilty to going through a formal ceremony of marriage with a person not of marriageable age at Noble Park mosque last September.
Australian network 7 News obtained the footage and reported the young bride was handed over for marriage by her parents in return for a AUD$1480 gold necklace.
The child’s mother watches on as the ceremony takes place, with the man conducting the ceremony asking the girl: “Do you take (this man) to live together and live according to Islam?”
“Yes,” she responds quietly.
“As a wife, you have a duty to obey your husband,” the Imam tells the child bride after the ceremony as the groom signs papers.
The footage was found on the groom’s phone by police who arrested both him and the Imam, named as Ibrahim Omerdic, who performed the ceremony when he was leader of the Bosnian Islamic Society and Noble Park Mosque.
As part of groom Shakir’s plea, two charges against him that he had sex with the girl after the ceremony were withdrawn.
Shakir, who spent six months in prison awaiting the court case, shed tears after entering his plea during what was to be a pre-trial committal hearing, according to Australian media. The case was adjourned until September.
He was helped in court by a Burmese interpreter.
The teenager, who was in court, also wiped tears from her eyes.
Mr Omerdic, 61, also appeared at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court charged with conduct that caused a minor to enter into a forced marriage.
He was sacked after he was arrested in November and his marriage licence was revoked. His barrister said the defence will contest whether there was a marriage and whether there was any intention to perform a marriage ceremony.
Between December 2014 and January 2017, there were reports of 57 child brides in Australia, where the legal age for marriage is 18. The marriage of a person aged 16 or 17 where the other person is aged 18 or over is considered only in “unusual and exceptional” circumstances.
Of these children, 34 were aged 16-17, 12 were aged 14-15, seven were aged between ten and 13, while four were under the age of 10. The majority of these offences took place in the Sydney area.
In the past two years, the child welfare group, Plan International Australia, identified another 250 cases of underage marriage across Australia.
Because the offence of underage marriage was not criminalised until 2013, police cannot prosecute for instances which took place before then. However, the number of cases being investigated by Federal Police doubled in the past year to 69.
The penalty for forcing a child into marriage is up to 25 years in prison. Such unions have no validity in law and are mostly kept hidden.
Pru Goward, the Australian Government’s Family and Community Services minister, told the Australian network: “It is deeply disturbing to think of little girls, pre-puberty, being considered for marriage and for people to be organising that marriage.”
Laura Vidal of The Freedom Partnership, which works to end modern slavery in Australia, said: “The long-term impacts of people being forced into marriage can be quite serious, including forced or unwanted pregnancies (and) withdrawal from education.”
The Board of Imams in Victoria issued a statement against forced and child marriages.
“Underage marriages are illegal in Australia. As Australian Muslims, we are required to observe and respect the laws of Australia,” the statement said.
The statement added that imams should meet both the bride and groom in person before the marriage ceremony to ensure they are of marriageable age and both consented.
Forced marriage including underage marriage is also on the rise in the UK according to figures released jointly by the Home and Foreign Office.
Statistics revealed a 17 per cent increase in the number of children believed to have been forced into marriage, usually with a much older man, between 2015 and 2016.
In 2016, the Forced Marriages Unit in the UK gave advice or support related to possible forced marriages in 1,428 cases, with 26 per cent of these involving victims below the age of 18.
The report from the Government stated that the FMU had handled cases relating to 69 different countries, with the six highest volume countries being Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Somalia, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.”
Piers Morgan brands Lily Allen a ‘deluded clown’ in vicious Manchester bombing online spat (express, May 24, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/808552/Manchester-bombing-terror-attack-Piers-Morgan-Lily-Allen-Twitter-spat
“PIERS MORGAN told Lily Allen to “pipe down” after she encouraged her 5.97 million followers on Twitter to ignore his comments following the Manchester Arena bombing…”
BREAKING: Manchester bombing – Police arrest three men in south of city (express, May 24, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/808592/Manchester-bombing-police-arrest-three-men-Ariana-Grande
“POLICE have arrested three men in South Manchester in connection with the attack at an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night, which killed 22 people and injured 60 others.
Three men have been arrested this morning following the horrific attack on Monday night.
This follows the arrest of a 23-year-old man yesterday…”
ISIS take people hostage in church as sick jihadis take control of city (express, May 24, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/808515/ISIS-take-hostage-Philippines-Marawi-church-terror
“ISLAMIC STATE (ISIS) fighters have stormed a major city in the Philippines to reign terror over citizens forcing government forces to take to the streets for battle.
Gunmen took hostages at a cathedral in Marawi fights broke out between ISIS-linked extremists and government forces.
The city was engulfed in a bloody battle after least 15 fighters from Maute, an ISIS backed-group, stormed the city, forcing the president to delcare a state of emergency.
Two soldiers and a policeman were killed and 12 people wounded in Marawi, where Maute fighters took over buildings and set fire to a school, a church and a jail.
More than a dozen worshippers and a priest were also among the hostages held at the church.
The military and government gave few details about the clashes nor did they say if any rebels had been killed.
Authorities insisted the situation was under control but residents who fled told a different story and said Marawi was in the hands of the rebels, who had allowed civilians to leave…”
Italy coast guard says at least 20 dead in migrant capsizing (abcnews, May 24, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/italy-coast-guard-20-dead-migrant-capsizing-47603074
“The Italian coast guard says at least 20 migrants have died after their vessel capsized off Libya’s coast.
The coast guard says the ship was carrying about 500 people. At a certain point, either a wave hit or the migrants shifted to one side and about 200 of them ended up in the water.
Officials intervened and rescued most, but at least 20 bodies were seen. The coast guard, which is coordinating migrant rescues, has dispatched other rescue vessels to the area to try to find any survivors.
The incident was one of 15 rescue operations over the past day that have saved some 1,700 people.”
Hack, fake story expose real tensions between Qatar, Gulf (abcnews, May 24, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/qatar-state-news-website-hacked-fake-article-published-47598847
“Qatar said hackers allegedly broke into the website of its state-run news agency on Wednesday and published a fake story quoting the ruling emir making controversial comments. The purported fake story prompted Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to respond by blocking Qatari media, including broadcaster Al-Jazeera.
The alleged hack reflects the tensions and suspicions still running deep between Qatar, whose conservative rulers have strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which have outlawed the group.
The hack happened early on Wednesday morning and hours later, the website of the Qatar News Agency was not accessible.
The fake article quoted Qatar emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani as calling Iran an “Islamic power” and saying Qatar’s relations with Israel were “good” during a military ceremony.
The Qatari state television’s nightly newscast on Tuesday showed clips of Sheikh Tamim at the ceremony with the anchor not mentioning the comments, though a scrolling ticker at the bottom of the screen had the alleged fake remarks. They included calling Hamas “the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people,” as well as saying Qatar had “strong relations” with Iran and the United States.
“Iran represents a regional and Islamic power that cannot be ignored and it is unwise to face up against it,” the ticker read at one point. “It is a big power in the stabilization of the region.”
The hackers also purportedly took over the news agency’s Twitter feed and posted alleged quotes from Qatar’s foreign minister alleging a plot against the country by other Arab nations. It said the small, gas-rich nation had ordered its ambassadors from Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates withdrawn over the plot. The tweets were later deleted.
Sheikh Saif Bin Ahmed Al Thani, the director of the Qatar’s government communications office, issued a statement saying authorities had launched an investigation…”
Bahrain Arrests 286 Wanted Individuals after Breaking up Protest in Diraz (aawsat, May 24, 2017)
http://english.aawsat.com/theaawsat/news-middle-east/bahrain-arrests-286-wanted-individuals-breaking-protest-diraz
“Bahrain police carried out a large security deployment on Tuesday in Diraz, where they managed to remove series of illegal road blocks and barricades that were put in the streets in order to obstruct the movement of cars and pedestrians and disrupt the interests of the people. The streets were reopened and the situation was restored in the framework of working to preserve public security and protect civil peace.
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that a total of 286 arrests were made, including fugitives that had escaped from Jau Prison. Several terrorists and convicted felons were also apprehended with a large number of them hiding in the residence of Isa Qassim.
During the operation, security forces came under attack by members of a terrorist cell throwing fire bombs, metal rods, knives and axes forcing the security authorities to respond proportionately…”
From the facebook page of some politician: https://scontent-sof1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18582027_1417011945021887_4296881412843799933_n.jpg?oh=fd26dad7446fafa34f6f3e2683d1fa00&oe=59C24F41
Saudis sent weapons that they bought from and through US companies to Syrian “moderate rebels”. The result – nearly half a million people dead, and Europe flooded with violent men using the war as a pretext to move to Europe.
Yemenis will be the next to come. Then liberals will shout how we must let them in, and conservatives – that they are dangerous. How about just opposing such deals with the Devil, so that they stay there…
Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for yearsby John Solomon and Sara Carter
The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community.
http://circa.com/politics/barack-obamas-team-secretly-disclosed-years-of-illegal-nsa-searches-spying-on-americans
Obama NSA conducted illegal searches on Americans for years: Report
FNC senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano and former CIA Director James Woolsey on the allegations in a new report on the NSA under President Obama.
Family of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich demands D.C. police reveal details of its murder investigation after reports claimed he may have been the source of Wikileaks emails
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4516416/DNC-staffer-Seth-Rich-family-demand-answers-cops.html#ixzz4i0C8uju8
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The family of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich is calling on the Washington, D.C. police department to go public with details of the murder investigation, after ten months of near-silence from law enforcement officials and as theories continue to spread about the mysterious circumstances of Rich’s shooting death last July.
‘The family has full confidence in the Metropolitan Police Department’s ability to proceed with this investigation. But given the large amount of hearsay and conspiracy theories surrounding the case, maybe it’s time for the police department to be more forthcoming with information regarding the investigation and to update the people of Washington, D.C. on the status of the case,’ said Brad Bauman, a spokesperson for Rich’s family.
Bauman’s statement follows renewed interest in the murder investigation, amid claims that Rich may have been the source who leaked thousands of DNC emails to Wikileaks last summer.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4516416/DNC-staffer-Seth-Rich-family-demand-answers-cops.html#ixzz4i0CK7jWx
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Philippines’ Duterte may place entire country under martial law
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he wouldn’t rule out placing the entire country under martial law if the threat of Islamic State spreads.
Duterte cut short a visit to Russia and placed the southern island of Mindanao under military rule on Tuesday, and said he would keep it that way for a year if necessary.
Duterte assured the public he will not allow abuses under martial rule, even as he repeatedly said he will deal with terrorism harshly.
http://in.reuters.com/article/philippines-militants-duterte-idINKBN18K12E
Man with knife arrested outside Buckingham Palace moments before Queen drives past
A man with a knife has been arrested near Buckingham Palace, as Britain remains on critical terror alert amid fears Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi did not act alone.
The man was detained by police on The Mall just moments before the Queen passed by in a car on her way to an engagement with the Duke of Edinburgh at St Paul’s Cathedral.
A picture showed the man surrounded by officers and handcuffed as he sat on the ground, while a police officer nearby held what was believed to be a large blade that had been seized.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/24/man-knife-arrested-outside-buckingham-palace-moments-queen-drives/
Former Special Air Service serviceman says enough is enough
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The reporter expressed worries about jailing people without good evidence, saying he was worried about this spreading to other people. Since Tommy Robertson is already being jailed on little to no evidence why can’t jihad supporters be kicked out or jailed on the same type of evidence that is used against Tommy?
Bam! There you go. I´d like to see that reporter answer that one.
It’s heartening to hear this.
FORTRESS BRITAIN Manchester bombing triggers security crackdown with soldiers scrambled to patrol Westminster as they join armed cops in race to foil ‘imminent’ second terror attack
SOLDIERS have been scrambled to join armed cops patrolling Britain’s streets today as they race to foil more terror attacks.
A total of 984 troops carrying guns are being ferried out to join police officers as the terror threat has been raised to the highest possible level in a decade – critical – meaning an attack ?is now “expected imminently”.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3626949/manchester-bombing-security-crackdown-uk-soldiers-second-terror-attack/
UK: Islamic centre near Manchester set alight hours after concert bombing
The door to an Islamic cultural and educational centre in Oldham, a town 13 kilometres (8 miles) north-east of Manchester, was set on fire in a suspected arson attack in the early hours of Tuesday morning, shortly after Monday’s attack at the Manchester Arena, which left 22 dead and a further 59 injured.
Worshipper at Manchester bomber’s mosque expresses disbelief
BBC Manchester attack: Who was Salman Abedi? BBC News
Manchester Bomber Traveled to Syria With ‘Proven’ Links to Islamic State
LONDON (AP) — France’s interior minister says that the suicide bomber who targeted Manchester is believed to have traveled to Syria and had “proven” links with the Islamic State group.
Gerard Collomb said on BFM television Wednesday that British and French intelligence have information that British-born attacker Salman Abedi had been to Syria. He did not provide details, and said it is unclear whether Abedi was part of a larger network of attackers.
Collomb, who spoke with British Prime Minister Theresa May after the attack at an Ariana Grande concert that killed 22, said the two countries should continue cooperating closely on counterterrorism efforts despite Britain’s pending exit from the European Union.
With France still under a state of emergency after a string of IS attacks, French President Emmanuel Macron is holding a special security council meeting Wednesday.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/24/manchester-bomber-traveled-syria-proven-links-islamic-state/
Some Tard setting the fire to make the Tards the victims.
Former Muslim on the Koran’s dangerous demands for jihad
British columnist: We need to demand action
Malkin on the response to the UK concert terror attack
British authorities are investigating a network
BBC News – Mum explains Manchester terror to kids –
Didsbury Mosque where Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi prayed releases statement
MANCHESTER Arena terrorist Salman Abedi prayed in the Didsbury Mosque and a trustee has now released a statement distancing themselves from the vile attacker.
The trustee caled the attack “an act of cowardice” and urged members of the mosque’s congregation to come forward if they have any information about Salman Abedi.
He said: “The Manchester Islamic Centre’s thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, their friends and our diverse community across Greater Manchester.
“The horrific atrocity that occurred in Manchester has shocked us all.
“This act of cowardice has no place in our religion or any religion for that matter.
“We encourage anyone who may have information about the individual involved to contact the police without any delay so they can assist with their investigation.
“The MIC is a public venue and we welcome thousands of attendees, both Muslims and non-Muslims.
“This centre has been part of our fine and great city this has been going on since the 1960s.
“The doors of the centre are open to all – they are open to all.
“Some media reports have reported that the bomber worked at the Manchester Islamic Centre – this is not true, he has never worked in this centre.
“We are concerned about anti-Muslim acts ranging from verbal abuse to acts of criminal damage to mosques in the area and outside the area.
“I encourage any incident to be reported as a hate crime, these incidents have to be reported as hate crimes.
“The MIC would like to take this opportunity to thanks the police and emergency services as well as ordinary people.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/808794/Manchester-Arena-bomb-terror-explosion-Salman-Abedi-Didsbury-Mosque
Manchester – Didsbury Mosque officials make a statement re: recent attack
skip the beginning go to ====> 11:49
Tension outside Didsbury mosque
“The Manchester Islamic Centre’s thoughts and prayers are with the victims…
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eff their thoughts, and double-eff their prayers-
-Keep me out of your dirty minds, you devils-“This act of cowardice has no place in our religion…”
Cowardice, by definition, is Submission… and we hate it when Muslims discover their g-spot.
Manchester Attack: Home Secretary Amber Rudd condemns US for leaks of shared British intelligence
Confidential details appeared in the US media apparently leaked by US intelligence
The Home Secretary has criticised the US after confidential details about the Manchester Arena attack appeared to have been leaked to the media by American intelligence officers.
Amber Rudd said US conduct had been “irritating” and said she had made clear to her American counterparts that such leaks “shouldn’t happen again”.
The episode comes just a week after US president Donald Trump defended his right to leak classified intelligence to other countries’ leaders. Mr Trump has also criticised leaking from the US intelligence establishment.
Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about the US leaks, Ms Rudd said: “The British police have been very clear that they want to control the flow of information in order to protect operational integrity, the element of surprise.
“So it is irritating when it gets released from other sources and I have been very clear with our friends that that should not happen again.”
Asked whether US conduct had compromised the investigation into the Manchester Arena attack, she said: “I wouldn’t go that far but I can say they are perfectly clear about the situation and that it shouldn’t happen again.”
A number of details about the Manchester Arena attack appeared in the US media – most notably on networks NBC and CBS – before British police had publicly released them to the UK media.
The initial death tolls, the fact the attack appeared to be a suicide bombing, and the name of the attacker, were all released through US outlets, apparently via leaky US intelligence sources.
Intelligence is shared between Britain, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand under the UKUSA agreement, the so called “Five Eyes” programme.
The latest leaks come after Theresa May personally expressed confidence in the US-UK intelligence sharing programme. Questioned about Mr Trump’s apparent leaking to the Kremlin, Ms May had said: “We continue to work with the United States and we continue to share intelligence with the United States, as we do with others around the world.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/home-secretary-us-intelligence-leaks-amber-rudd-irritating-donald-trump-russia-security-manchester-a7752511.html
‘Shouldn’t happen again’: UK home secretary chides US for leaking info on Manchester attack to press
Manchester bomber Salman Abedi gave imam ‘killer look’ – BBC Newsnight
British authorities hunt ‘network’ behind Manchester bombing`
Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s father and brothers arrested, linked to ISIS, Al Qaeda
Manchester bomber Salman Abedi apparently wasn’t the only member of his family to harbor extremist views as Libyan officials arrested the suicide bomber’s father and two brothers, and uncovered what investigators called a plot for a new attack.
Hashim Abedi, who was born in 1997, was arrested in Tripoli on Wednesday evening by the Libyan counter-terrorism force Rada on suspicion of links to the Islamic State, and was planning a new attack on the Libyan capital, a government spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday.
The father of the bomber was arrested in Tripoli on Wednesday, a Libyan security spokesman told The Associated Press. The father, Ramadan Abedi, had said another brother of the bomber, Ismail, was arrested Tuesday.
What’s more, two U.S. defense officials confirmed to Fox News Salman Abedi spent three weeks in Libya prior to the Manchester bombing, retuning to England just days before the Ariana Grande concert where he launched his attack Monday.
Salman’s mother, Samia Tabbal, is belived to have returned to Libya, while the Facebook profile for his sister, Jomana, suggests that she still lives in Manchester. The mother was described in an article by The Guardian as a “very nice woman” who taught a friend’s daughter to read the Quran.
Earlier Abdel-Basit Haroun, a former security official in Libya, told The Associated Press Wednesday that he personally knew Ramadan Abedi, the father of Salman Abedi, and that the elder Abedi was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s. The group had links to Al Qaeda.
Although the LIFG disbanded, Haroun said the father belongs to the Salafi Jihadi movement, the most extreme sect of Salafism and from which Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group hail. Haroun added that Abedi, also known as Abu Ismail, had returned to the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
The LIFG was founded in 1995, and was involved in attempts to assassinate then-Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi as well as violent clashes with Benghazi police. In 2002, a senior LIFG commander, Anas al-Libi, who also was a companion of Al Qaeda founder Usama bin Laden, was detained by U.S. forces for his role in the 1998 bombings of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200 people.
The group also was involved in the bloody riots at Abu Salim prison near Benghazi in 1996 that killed more than 1,200 prisoners.
The LIFG reportedly teamed up with the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group in planning the May 2003 bombings in Casablanca, Morocco, that killed more than 40 people and injured more than 100. The group also has been linked to the 2004 attacks in Madrid that killed 194 people.
We don’t believe in killing innocents. This is not us.
– Ramadan Abedi, the father of Manchester bombing suspect Salman Abedi
Ramadan Abedi escaped Tripoli in 1993 after Qaddafi’s security authorities issued an arrest warrant and eventually sought political asylum in Britain. The elder Abedi first immigrated to London before settling in the Whalley Range area of south Manchester, where they had lived for at least a decade.
The neighborhood is known to be home to a number of former LIFG members living in exile, including Abd al-Baset Azzouz – an expert bomb-maker who left Manchester to run a terrorist network in eastern Libya overseen by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Usama bin Laden’s successor as leader of Al Qaeda. Media in the United Kingdom reported in 2014 that Azzouz had 200 to 300 militants under his control.
In a telephone interview from Tripoli, Ramadan Abedi — who is now the administrative manager of the Central Security force in the Libyan capital — denied to The Associated Press that his son is linked to any militant group or the suicide bombing that killed 22 people.
The father of the alleged terrorist said that his family “aren’t the ones who blow up ourselves among innocents.”
[ ...but only amongst unclean kuffars....??? ]“We don’t believe in killing innocents. This is not us,” he said.
Abedi added that he spoke to his son five days ago and he was getting ready to travel from Saudi Arabia to Libya to spend the holy month of Ramadan with family and sounded “normal.” He said that his son visited Libya a month-and-a -half ago.
The Abedi family had apparently become concerned about Salman’s growing radicalization and a friend close to the family told The New York Times that his parents had seized the suspected bomber’s British passport. They had returned it when he said that he wanted to return to the holy Saudi city of Mecca, but instead flew back to the Manchester area.
While early reports were unclear whether the 22-year-old Abedi had acted as a lone wolf or in coordination with others, Manchester’s police chief told reporters on Wednesday that it is clear “this is a network we are investigating” as he gave an update on the probe into the bomb attack.
Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said Wednesday that police are carrying out extensive searches across Manchester as part of their probe.
Hopkins declined to comment on whether police have found the alleged maker of the explosive device used in Monday night’s attack.
His comments followed media reports that Abedi acted as a “mule” for others.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/24/manchester-bomber-salman-abedis-father-was-part-al-qaeda-linked-group-ex-libyan-official-says.html
Father, brothers of Manchester bombing suspect arrested
from Rumiyah #1
Muslims currently living in Dar al-Kufr be reminded that the blood of the disbelievers is halal, and killing them is a form of worship to allah, the lord, king , and god of mankind. This includes the bussinessman riding to work in a taxicab, the yound adults ( post-pubescent “children” ) engaged in sports activities in the park, and the old man waiting in line to buy a sandwich. Indeed, even the blood of the kafir strett vendor selling flowers to those passing by is halal to shed- and striking terror into the hearts of all disbelievers is a Muslim’s duty. There is no shar’i requirement to target soldiers and policemen nor judges and politicians, but all kuffar who are not under the convenant of dhimmah are fair game. How can disbelievers ever dream of safety and security while Muslims suffer anywhere in the world and while the rule of allah is mockingly replaced by manmade monstrosities of democracy
https://twitter.com/JulienLeClezio/status/867167415267979266
Brother of Salman Abedi, caught yesterday in Tripoli, allegedly confessed they both were Islamic State – was aware of attack since weeks
https://twitter.com/DanieleRaineri/status/867428793396363264
DAILY MAIL – Grisly photos of scorched remnants of suicide bomber’s backpack, detonator and shrapnel on the bloodied floor of Manchester Arena are leaked by US intelligence officials
Salman Abedi carried explosives into Manchester Arena in a metal container
The bomb was either concealed inside a black vest or blue Karrimor backpack
Small handheld detonator was used to explode bomb near arena entrance
Most of the fatalities occurred in a nearly complete circle around the bomber
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4538814/Remnants-backpack-bomb-killed-22.html
UK official calls on US to stop leaking intel on Manchester
Italy: Trump greeted by President Mattarella at Quirinal Palace
Holy See: Trump meets with Pope Francis in Vatican City
Holy See: Melania and Ivanka Trump wear black veils to meet Pope Francis
Amusing facts about Trump’s papal visit in the Vatican
President Trump & Melania Leave Rome for Brussels After Vatican Visit 5/24/17
Brussels: thousands gather for anti-Trump demo
BBC Radio 5 Live goes off air as studio is evacuated
Listeners heard evacuation alert in background of broadcast and a pre-recorded tape began to play instead of the live show
BBC Radio 5 Live went off air today and switched to emergency pre-recorded audio when the studio was evacuated mid-way through a live broadcast.
Confused and concerned listeners took to Twitter on Wednesday just before 2pm to ask what was happening after hearing an evacuation alert in the background of Afternoon Edition.
The two presenters had been in the middle of an interview when it suddenly cut out and instead listeners heard the message: “You’re listening to BBC Radio 5 Live. We’re sorry we can’t bring you the scheduled programme at the moment.
“We’ll return to it as soon as we can.’
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/bbc-radio-5-live-goes-10490296
With threat ‘very high’, France set to extend state of emergency
Paris (AFP) – President Emmanuel Macron wants a sixth extension of France’s state of emergency since the Paris attacks of November 2015, his prime minister said Wednesday, adding that the terror threat “remains very high”.
The new president, elected on May 7, also wants legislation to boost the powers of the security forces, Edouard Philippe said, two days after the Manchester concert suicide bombing that claimed 22 lives.
“France and the United Kingdom are fighting the same enemy,” Philippe said after a meeting of his defence council. “The terrorist threat remains, in Europe, in our two countries, at a very high level.”
Macron is seeking a new extension of the state of emergency, which expires on July 15 after being extended “to preserve our democracy” — referring to France’s just-ended presidential election and upcoming legislative polls.
The president’s office earlier said he was seeking to extend the state of emergency until November 1.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/threat-very-high-france-set-extend-state-emergency-114335611.html
Manchester bomber had ‘proven’ links to Islamic State: French minister
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – The Manchester suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a concert venue packed with children had recently returned from Libya, a British minister said, and her French counterpart said he had links with Islamic State and had probably visited Syria too.
Interior minister Amber Rudd said Salman Abedi had likely not acted alone, and troops were being deployed to key sites across Britain to help prevent further attacks after the official threat level was raised to “critical”.
Police made three new arrests in South Manchester on Wednesday in connection with the concert bombing. They provided no details on the individuals held.
Rudd said up to 3,800 soldiers could be deployed on Britain’s streets, taking on guard duties at places like Buckingham Palace and Downing Street to free up police to focus on patrols and investigation. An initial deployment of 984 had been ordered, initially in London, then elsewhere.
The Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace, a draw for tourists, was canceled because it requires support from police officers, which authorities decided was not a good use of police resources given the threat level.
http://www.oann.com/britain-deploys-troops-to-prevent-attacks-after-manchester-bombing/
Red Pilled Eurowhore
SyeTen
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John Brennan, James Comey, and the amazing evidence-free ‘Trump-Russia’ ‘investigation’ thing
By J.E. Dyer May 23, 2017
Another oppo event came and went on Capitol Hill today, as former CIA Director John Brennan spoke in a House Intelligence Committee hearing on the theme of “Russia and mumble mumble something Trump.”
The FBI has reportedly been working on this theme since July 2016, doing Zeus only knows what (seriously; no one has clarified what the FBI is doing with its counterintelligence investigation), and we’re still at the “Russia and mumble mumble something Trump” stage. But let that pass.
This morning we got it straight from Mr. Brennan.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/05/23/john-brennan-james-comey-amazing-evidence-free-trump-russia-investigation-thing/
She does a real good job of making Comey and Brennan look like partisan liars, they admit they have no evidence to support their conclusion which seems to be based more on wishful thinking then any thing else. This shows how much Obama and the Dems managed to politicize the intelligence and law enforcement groups of the US Government. I am worried about how we can clean out the Partisan political appointees without turning these groups into political partisans for the Conservatives.
BBC NEWS – Ex-CIA boss suspicious of Trump team ‘contacts’ with Russians –
CNN – Brennan stopped short of describing Russia collusion
BREITBART – Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Refuses To Say Whether Russia Holds Damaging Info On Hillary Clinton
[…]This prompted Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla) to ask Brennan whether he found in his review of the evidence that there was “more damaging evidence of Secretary Clinton that was not revealed?”
“And if it wasn’t revealed, what does that say about their – the Russian ability to be actually rooting for her to win?” he asked.
Brennan replied: “Well, yeah, we can talk about it in closed, but, as I said, I think that they anticipated that Secretary Clinton was going to win the election. And so they – I believe that they tried to damage and bloody her before the election.”
“But also, I would have anticipated that, had she been elected, that their efforts to denigrate her and hurt her would have continued during her presidency. So if they did collect more information about her that they did not release, I think they were probably husbanding it for a – another day.”
Brennan was talking hypothetically about the Russians “husbanding” information on Clinton for “another day” if they did indeed collect any such information.
Later in the hearing, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) returned to the matter and asked for a clear “yes or no” answer as to whether the CIA had knowledge of the Russians holding damaging information on Clinton.
Gowdy asked: “Congressman Rooney and you were discussing, generally, the motive and I think it is – let’s just assume it’s a given that the Russians did not like Secretary Clinton – did not like President Obama, for that matter – and desired negative things for her.
“But they also thought she was going to win. Was it your testimony that all of the information stolen was not publicly disseminated?”
The exchange continued:
BRENNAN: No. I said, if they had collected additional information, as I think was implied, that the – the effort to try to further hurt her if she became president – that information – any type of derogatory information about her could have been husbanded for post-election period.
GOWDY: All right. But do you know if negative information was husbanded, to use your word, and not disseminated?
BRENNAN: Again, I – I – I think that would be inappropriate to talk about in an – in an open session like this.
GOWDY: Is it inappropriate to both – I get not asking you about the nature of it. Is it inappropriate to answer yes or no, whether or not that information was husbanded but not disseminated?
BRENNAN: My – my request would be that we could talk about that in closed session.
GOWDY: OK. I’ll honor your request, and we’ll talk about that in a little bit.
This is not the first discussion about the Russians holding potentially damaging information on Clinton or her camp.[…]
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/24/ex-cia-director-john-brennan-refuses-say-whether-russia-holds-damaging-info-hillary-clinton/
Bloomberg – Trump-Russia Question Fade
Proving collusion is far more important to the nation’s long-term interests than Trump’s attempts to shake off the investigation.
The Trump-Russia scandal has changed. The latest leaks are all about President Donald Trump’s acute discomfort with the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s possible collusion with the Kremlin, not about the collusion itself. This is a dangerous bit of bait-and-switch: Soon, it may not even matter whether or not Trump or his associates accepted help from President Vladimir Putin or those working for him.
In 2002, a poll revealed that 65 percent of Americans didn’t remember enough about Watergate to tell the basic facts to another person. At the same time, 63 percent said Richard Nixon’s actions were serious enough to warrant his resignation. Almost two-thirds of the American public would be unable to say exactly what Nixon did, whether he knew in advance about the Democratic National Committee burglary (there’s no evidence that he did) and what he undertook to cover it up (schemed to replace the investigating agency and hide evidence).
In today’s fast-moving world, it won’t take 40 years to get there. No one will care about the major differences between Trump-Russia and Watergate if the basic plot appears similar — and now, it does.
All the recent leaks are about Trump trying to shake off the Russia investigation. There is the “Comey memo” telling of Trump’s suggestion that the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director drop the investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. There’s Trump’s admission that he was thinking about the “Russia thing” when he fired James Comey. There’s his alleged remark to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that firing “nut job” Comey eased the Russia-related pressure on him (Lavrov denies Trump said this). And there are the latest reports that Trump attempted to get Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers to say publicly that they had no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.
That’s suddenly sounding like an attempted cover-up, Nixon-style. Next thing we know, special counsel Robert Mueller will be demanding that the White House release recordings of Trump’s conversations about the scandal (if they exist, as Trump has hinted), the way Archibald Cox once did with Nixon. And perhaps, who knows, there will be enough evidence to charge Trump with obstruction of justice tied to his trademark impatience or something far more serious.
But where is Russia in this anymore? As a Russian opposed to the current Kremlin regime but interested in the long-term relationship between the U.S. and my country, I don’t much care what Trump told members of the U.S. intelligence community and how they replied. Perhaps that’s obstruction of justice and perhaps it isn’t; we already know that Trump’s handling of the situation is clumsy in the extreme. Instead of clearing the way for the investigation, he has been criticizing it, and that makes him look guilty. But I’m far more interested in the original subject of the investigation: Did the Trump campaign actually get help from Moscow, and if so, did they accept it wittingly or unwittingly?
Answering these questions would mean some specific steps on the part of a politically impartial investigation.
It would need to establish who hacked the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign officials. I know the U.S. intelligence community thinks it was “the Russians,” but that’s only an opinion, although, we’re told, based on some non-public evidence. In the Watergate case, the burglars were exposed.
It would need to establish who handed over the stolen data to WikiLeaks.
It would need to figure out whether anyone on the Trump campaign was in contact with the hackers, the leakers or those who controlled them; in the latter case, it would also mean establishing a connection between the controllers and the hackers and leakers. The Watergate investigation established a connection between the Nixon campaign and the burglary.
And if it succeeded at that — and two years passed between the arrest of the plumbers and Nixon’s impeachment — it would need to find out whether Trump knew about the contacts and authorized them or hid them. The Watergate investigation never proved that Nixon had prior knowledge of the plot.
None of the many revelations so far have addressed any of these issues that must be at the core of a serious investigation. Sally Yates, the acting Attorney General fired by Trump for refusing to defend the travel ban, testified to senators that “we believed that Gen. Flynn” — a top campaign adviser and Trump’s first national security adviser — “was compromised” with the Russians. There are stories about Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort’s work for deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his failed business venture with Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska; about a Russian state bank helping to fund a Trump-branded project; about a man named Carter Page, whom no one can remember in Moscow or Washington, but who apparently knows some suspicious Russians. But there are no leaks or journalistic investigations that would actually indicate collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin in releasing material that may have helped Trump win the election.
On Tuesday, former CIA Director John Brennan testified to the House Intelligence Committee that he had concerns, without citing specific evidence. “I encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign that I was concerned about,” he said.
That’s the really important matter to investigate. If Putin and Trump — or people working for them — actually made a deal to swing a U.S. election, that calls for impeachment and treason charges. If Trump was complicit in such a plot, he shouldn’t be president. If he tried and failed to shut down investigations that later revealed collusion by his underlings without his knowledge, it’s a more complicated matter.
For now, the public case against Trump appears to be about his clumsy interactions with U.S. intelligence officials, not about any evidence of collusion. This threatens to further chill delicate and extremely important relations between the U.S. and Russia for petty political reasons. I also fear that Russian people will be stigmatized in the U.S. regardless of whether they have anything to do with Putin’s Kremlin. If Trump is undone by this secondary, derivative scandal, soon no one will remember exactly what happened and the collusion story may be validated by default, as far as most Americans are concerned.
I hope Mueller’s investigators will remember what they’re investigating, and I hope they do an honest job.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-23/don-t-let-the-original-trump-russia-question-fade
the gateway pundit – Former CIA Agent: ‘Trey Gowdy Ought to Have His A** Kicked’
Former CIA Agent, Phil Mudd spoke with Alyson Camerota and Chris Cuomo on CNN Wednesday morning to discuss Former CIA Director, John Brennan’s testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee.
Trey Gowdy made minced meat of John Brennan yesterday during the testimony, once again proving that there was ZERO EVIDENCE of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians during the 2016 election.
CNN played a clip of Trey Gowdy shredding John Brennan over whether he had any ‘evidence’ rather than ‘intelligence’ of collusion between the Trump camp and the Russians which apparently triggered former CIA agent, Phil Mudd because he responded by saying, “Trey Gowdy ought to have his a** kicked. He knows the difference between intelligence and evidence.”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/former-cia-agent-trey-gowdy-kicked-video/
( 5 min 51 )
Intelligence is information and conclusions based on existing evidence and what you think the plans of the enemy are, the CIA man knows this and is one of the political partisans who are putting their political agenda ahead of the security of the US. He is the one that need a goo A–kicking.
BREITBART – U.S. Spending £150K to ‘Reduce Terrorism’ by ‘Promoting Positive Narratives’ of Migrants in Europe
The U.S. embassy in Belgium has allocated $200,000 (£154,000) for a group
to ‘counter violent extremism’ through pushing ‘positive narratives’ of mass migration to Europe.
NGOs and nonprofits have until 29 May to apply for the year-long grant, for which they will be asked to “provide positive narratives concerning refugees and immigrant populations” and “dispel the narratives of extremist groups that incite violence and provide alternative narratives”.
Warning that “violent extremist groups are using advances in technology … to spread their propaganda and attract new recruits and inspire individuals more than ever before”, the U.S. embassy says the winner of the grant should be “creative”, and spread “counter messaging” about mass migration “into the cyber realms of gamers, bloggers, and digital activists where the war of ideas is really being fought”.
The grant winning group should promote ‘positive, tolerant messages’ about migrants and people of foreign origin, through “TV, radio, [the internet], and [via] social-media campaigns”, states the embassy document which outlines the project.
Other objectives mentioned in the grant’s announcement include “amplifying the role of women in building secure, tolerant families and communities”, and “directly working with schools … to engage young people in activities that provide exposure to moderate viewpoints and eliminate bias”.
The embassy aims for the programme, which can be completed anywhere in Europe, to “be sustainable beyond the life of the grant”.
According to the embassy in Belgium, which is one of the countries that U.S. President Donald J. Trump has yet to appoint a new ambassador to serve in, the grant to pedal rose-tinted views of mass migration will “reduce violent extremism and terrorism by promoting a comprehensive approach to address violent extremist challenges in Europe”.
More than a million migrants flooded into Europe in 2015 after German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced an open borders policy. Since then, Europe, Germany in particular, has seen suicide bombings, axe attacks, and a truck rampage, with numerous asylum seekers amongst the perpetrators.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/24/us-reduce-terror-positive-migration/
I didn’t vote for that!
Max Boot (Commentary)
How to Defeat Suicide Bombers
A suicide bomber set off his explosives outside the Manchester Arena while concert-goers were leaving after the performance.
This indicates the limits of security measures: While it’s possible to screen those going inside, there will always be vulnerability outside the security checkpoint. In Iraq, lines of people waiting to go through security checkpoints were often struck by suicide bombers.
Israel found itself under incessant assault from suicide bombers during the Second Intifada (2000-2005) and figured out how to defeat this terrible menace through a combination of offensive and defensive security measures.
The number of suicide attacks in Israel fell from 53 in 2002 to none by 2009, through still-ongoing efforts by the IDF to disrupt West Bank terror cells before they can strike.
What the Israelis learned is that suicide bombers do not work alone: they require other people for indoctrination and preparation. Stop those other people – who are not suicidal – and you can prevent the human fuse from being lit.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/terrorism/terrorism-isis-manchester-attack-ideas/
President Trump’s Visit to the Middle East
The royal welcome President Trump received in Saudi Arabia and his meetings with a long list of Arab and Muslim leaders provide him with the image of the authoritative leader of a superpower and the demonstration of a united front against Iran and the Islamic State.
The U.S. administration’s drive to promote the political process between Israel and the Palestinians marks the first opportunity in many years for a different, more realistic process. Even if it is not currently possible to reach a final status agreement, there is a greater chance than in the past to implement interim arrangements. This might improve the reality on the ground and create an environment more conducive to reaching a final status agreement in the future.
http://www.inss.org.il/publication/president-trumps-visit-middle-east/?offset=0&posts=930&type=399
Israel Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Reunification of Jerusalem
As Israel marks the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem according to the Hebrew calendar, explore videos, photos, and links to resources about Israel’s capital.
http://jcpa.org/israel-celebrates-50th-anniversary-reunification-jerusalem/
Jerusalem: 4000 Years in 5 Minutes
‘This is not us’ Father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi says his son is INNOCENT (express, May 24, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/808741/Manchester-explosion-terror-attack-Salman-Abedi-bomb-arena-Ariana-Grande
“THE father of Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi has insisted his son is innocent…”
Manchester bomber Salman Abedi gave ‘killer look’ to Muslim leader who condemned ISIS (express, May 24, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/808846/Manchester-bombing-Salman-Abedi-Ariana-Grande-attacker-ISIS
“MANCHESTER BOMBING suicide attacker Salman Abedi confronted an imam with a “killer look” after the Muslim leader denounced the actions of ISIS, according to a neighbour…”
Manchester terrorist’s brother ‘aware of attacker’s plans’ – bomber’s father also arrested (express, May 24, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/808820/hashem-abedi-salman-manchester-explosion-attack-arrested-tripoli-libya
“THE FATHER and younger brother of Manchester attack terrorist Salman Abedi has been arrested in Libya.
The heartless killer’s younger brother Hashem Abedi was arrested in the Libyan capital of Tripoli last night, while father Ramadam has also been detained today.
Hashem was arrested on suspicion of links with Islamic State, a spokesman for a local counter-terrorism force revealed.
Police claim he had prior knowledge of the attack and said he may have been planning his own atrocity.
The Libyan security force, known as Rada, detained Hashem Abedi, who was born in 1997, on Tuesday evening, spokesman Ahmed Bin Salem said.
Pictures on social media show the youth wielding a huge weapon while dressed in a Nike top.
The father was seized by masked gunman while giving a TV interview.
A third brother has also been arrested after police raids in the UK.
Earlier today the Abedi brothers’ father spoke from Libya, where he said his son was innocent.
He said: “We don’t believe in killing innocents. This is not us.”…”
Double bombing at tourist hotspot leaves body parts scattered (express, May 24, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/808821/Jakarta-bombing-Kampung-Melayu-Indonesia
“A DOUBLE explosion in Indonesia’s capital has left at least one man dead at a bus stop.
Two police officers and a civilian were injured in the blasts on Wednesday night in Kampung Melayu in East Jakarta.
Eyewitnesses in the densely populated neighbourhood said two loud explosions were heard at about 9pm.
Several witnesses said the blasts occurred about 10 minutes apart near a bus stop and a motorcycle parking area…”
US ramps up bombing in Afghanistan as Trump mulls troop surge (RT, May 24, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/usa/389616-increased-us-bombing-afghanistan/
“As the Pentagon lobbies President Donald Trump to send up to 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan, US jets have stepped up bombing operations to levels last seen in 2012, in an effort to crush an Islamic State affiliate before it establishes a foothold…”
McMaster squanders tremendous capital Trump earns in S. Arabia
• Counter-productive statements about ISIS.
• McMaster must go
President Trump did not shy away from calling an Islamist terrorist by his real name when he addressed the heads of state of some fifty Muslim countries over the weekend in Riyadh.
His language and his message were clear: the United States needs the leaders of Arab Islamic nations as partners. As non-Muslims, we can not eradicate the scourge of a terrorism that draws its source from authentic Islamic texts, nor can we cast out terrorist leaders who model themselves on Mohammad, the prophet of Islam.
Indeed, that is what the Manchester bomber did, blowing himself up in order to kill the children of the Unbelievers. (Quran 3:151: “Soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers.”)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266792/gen-mcmaster-squanders-tremendous-capital-trump-kenneth-r-timmerman
It’ll take more than one limp dhimmi to “squander” PT-45’s “capital”.
Somalia car bomb kills at least 8 in capital, police say (abcnews, May 24, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/somalia-car-bomb-kills-capital-police-47609695
“A car bomb exploded in Somalia’s capital, killing at least eight people and injuring 15, police said Wednesday, as the extremist group al-Shabab quickly claimed responsibility.
The Somalia-based group has vowed to step up attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere after the federal government recently announced a new offensive against the group. Targets have included high-profile spots like military facilities, hotels and areas close to the presidential palace.
The car with explosives had been parked outside a restaurant near the city’s port, Capt. Mohamed Hussein told The Associated Press. Among the dead were a mother and child who were at the restaurant, he said.
“We would ask Allah to give his mercy on their souls,” said Abdifitah Halane, spokesman for Mogadishu’s mayor…”
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2016/12/16/20161221_emergency1.jpg
“The usual hashtags, prayers and facebook filters are being play-acted like some sick déjà vu parody. All this has been proven not to work. The masochistic resigned stupor of elites is also doing more harm than anything else.
Just minutes after it became clear that what happened in Manchester was a terrorist suicide attack many media repeated the traditional calls to ignore the danger and the meaning of such attacks.
The ugly lie was repeated, that terror is a part of everyday life in big cities and we should not be paying so much attention to it. Cynics got more worried about the potential hurt feelings of Muslims than for the victims and their families.
The liberal Brittish newspaper “Indipendent” wrote that the answer to this attack was to continue living the way we used to. As if nothing had happened. I wonder when will these media and organizations finally say that perhaps there is a systematic problem. Exactly how many attacks would that take? One every week? Every day?
No, this is not normal, it is not a part of life in a big city and we must not pretend that life simply goes on. For 22 children and their parents life is over. For hundreds of families life will never be the same. This cannot go on. Europe has an enormous problem and it’s time we start talking about it honestly.”
http://www.webcafe.bg/id_273272089
“BRANNON HOWSE: MAY 22, 2017”
Guests: Robert Spencer & John Guandolo
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/radio/audio/brannon-howse-may-22-2017
“UNDERSTANDING THE THREAT RADIO: MAY 22, 2017”
Hosts: John Guandolo & Chris Gaubatz
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/radio/audio/understanding-threat-radio-may-22-2017
Chris Gaubatz reported that the International Institute of Islam Thought (IIIT), gave $750,000 to Georgetown University.
“Georgetown Islamic Studies Professor: Slavery OK, So is Non-Consensual Sex” By Ian Miles Cheong – February 10, 2017
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/georgetown-islamic-studies-professor-slavery-ok-so-is-non-consensual-sex/
Rewind: “Obama had Georgetown U cover ‘JESUS’ but didn’t have Baltimore mosque cover ‘ALLAH’” by Robert Spencer – February 4, 2016
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/02/obama-had-georgetown-u-cover-jesus-but-didnt-have-baltimore-mosque-cover-allah
Related: All roads lead to Chicago.
Rewind:
1. “The CCHD and Saul Alinsky”
Church Militant Archives – December 9, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=481bgi5Du0s
2. “Obama’s Counterfeit Catholics”
ChurchMilitant Archives – December 9, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFYCNKi-BhA
“The Vortex—Obama at ND Changed Everything” Church Millitant – May 23, 2017
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police with “consequences” for holding equipment that she says belongs to her in order to build a criminal case against a Pakistani staffer suspected of massive cybersecurity breaches involving funneling sensitive congressional data offsite.
The Florida lawmaker used her position on the committee that sets the police force’s budget to press its chief to relinquish the piece of evidence Thursday, in what could be considered using her authority to attempt to interfere with a criminal investigation.
The Capitol Police and outside agencies are pursuing Imran Awan, who has run technology for the Florida lawmaker since 2005 and was banned from the House network in February on suspicion of data breaches and theft.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/24/wasserman-schultz-threatened-police-chief-for-gathering-evidence-on-her-it-staffers-alleged-crimes/
White women’s burrito shop is forced to close after being hounded with accusations it was ‘culturally appropriating Mexican food and jobs’
Kali Wilgus and Liz ‘LC’ Connelly opened Kooks Burritos in Portland, Oregon
The two friends did so after taking a trip to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico, last December
While there, they learned the basics by ‘picking the brain of every tortilla lady’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4538398/Burrito-shop-shuts-accused-stealing-culture.html
Pictures leaked ‘after being shared with US intelligence’ show bomb used in Manchester attack
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/24/leaked-pictures-show-bomb-used-manchester-attack/
Manchester bombing reignites debate over travel ban
Daily Mail columnist: The fear in the UK is real
Putin vows to PUNISH ISIS after Manchester bombing as he vows ACTION and backs Britain (express, May 24, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/808648/Vladimir-Putin-punish-ISIS-terror-Manchester-explosion-bombing-victim-Russia-UK
“VLADIMIR Putin has vowed to crush barbaric Islamic State (ISIS) and stated they will not go unpunished following the massacre at Manchester Arena by a suicide bomber which left 22 people dead…”
Russia: Putin visits the relics of St. Nicholas in the Christ the Savior Cathedral
President’s visit was brief, he kissed the relics and lit a candle, then left the Cathedral.
Thousands of believers queued up to see the relics of one of the Russian Orthodox Church’s most important figures.
Believers will be able to visit the remains of Saint Nicholas from May 22 till July 12 in Moscow and from July 13 till July 28 in Saint-Petersburg.
BREAKING: ‘Huge bang’ as army and police raid flats in Manchester after terror attack (express, May 24, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/808909/Manchester-Arena-terror-attack-Salman-Abedi-police-raids-Blackley
“A LOUD bang has been heard in a block of flats in Blackley, Manchester, as police and the army carry out more raids – sparking fears it could be the location of a terrorist bomb factory.
Pictures show officers sealing off a large stretch of Blackley and entering two flats and onlookers described hearing what sounded like an explosion as officers entered the building.
A witness told the Manchester Evening News she heard two loud bangs as officers entered one of the properties and a woman was brought out from the address.
One man was on the phone to his daughter but heard “a loud bang and then her phone went dead”.
He has not been able to contact her since.
Officers remain inside the second property.
Another witness counted 12 police vans, around 45 police officers, a number of armed police and a bomb squad.
A nearby resident, Chris Barlow, said there was a “bomb or explosion” and two people have been taken away by officers.
More to follow…”
the gateway pundit – SHARYL ATTKISSON: Pressure from Sponsors to Drop News Stories Like Seth Rich Is “Dangerous New Development” (Video)
ATTKISSON: PRESSURE FROM SPONSORS TO DROP STORIES LIKE SETH RICH IS “DANGEROUS NEW DEVELOPMENT”
nvestigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson joined Steve Malzberg on Newsmax TV to discuss the liberal media, President Donald Trump’s first foreign trip and the Seth Rich murder investigation.
Attkisson told Steve she believes the Seth Rich family is being “managed” by outside interests and important questions still remain on the murder investigation.
Sharyl Attkisson: I think there are important questions and if you don’t know who murdered him you can’t really say, “Please don’t look here. That’s a conspiracy theory.” I feel for the family but I also think they are being managed. I would guess the article they wrote in the Washington Post, if I had to guess, I would say that letter was done with help… I think this case is being managed at various levels by people who don’t want this case investigated… That is sort of a dangerous new development in recent years, that there’s pressure to just stop covering a story entirely… There’s these narratives to try to stop a discussion and stop these investigations altogether rather than just provide a different viewpoint to it. That’s a scary development.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/sharyl-attkisson-pressure-sponsors-drop-news-stories-like-seth-rich-dangerous-new-development-video/
Trump budget cuts would make essential UN work ‘impossible’ – spokesman (RT, May 24, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/usa/389620-trumps-cuts-third-funding-un/
“The United Nations has warned that President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut a third of US funding to the UN would “make it impossible” for the agency to carry out its peacekeeping, human rights, and humanitarian assistance functions.
The Trump administration’s 2018 budget proposal calls for $19 billion to be slashed from the International Affairs Budget – from $59.1 billion in fiscal year 2017 to $40.1 billion.
“The figures presented would simply make it impossible for the UN to continue all of its essential work advancing peace, development, human rights and humanitarian assistance,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said in a statement on Wednesday, according to Reuters…”
Wouldnt that be something!