Complementing the Curtis/Ahmed article posted by Harvey, here's one by the great John Pilger:
May 31, 2017
Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know?by John Pilger
The unsayable in Britain’s general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy.
Critical questions – such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist “assets” in Manchester and why the government did not warn the public of the threat in their midst – remain unanswered, deflected by the promise of an internal “review”.
The alleged suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was part of an extremist group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, that thrived in Manchester and was cultivated and used by MI5 for more than 20 years.
The LIFG is proscribed by Britain as a terrorist organisation which seeks a “hardline Islamic state” in Libya and “is part of the wider global Islamist extremist movement, as inspired by al-Qaida”.
The “smoking gun” is that when Theresa May was Home Secretary, LIFG jihadists were allowed to travel unhindered across Europe and encouraged to engage in “battle”: first to remove Mu’ammar Gadaffi in Libya, then to join al-Qaida affiliated groups in Syria.
Last year, the FBI reportedly placed Abedi on a “terrorist watch list” and warned MI5 that his group was looking for a “political target” in Britain. Why wasn’t he apprehended and the network around him prevented from planning and executing the atrocity on 22 May?
These questions arise because of an FBI leak that demolished the “lone wolf” spin in the wake of the 22 May attack – thus, the panicky, uncharacteristic outrage directed at Washington from London and Donald Trump’s apology.The Manchester atrocity lifts the rock of British foreign policy to reveal its Faustian alliance with extreme Islam [...]
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/31 ... ster-know/
This is all essential background and context, and very damning evidence. But NB, it certainly doesn't prove that Salam Abedi dunnit. He could as easily have been even more of a patsy than Lee Harvey Oswald.
This is the obvious point that even Mark Curtis, Nafeez Ahmed and John Pilger do not make. They won't take that last step. They just take it for granted that Salam Abedi (22) dunnit, willingly. The hypothesis that he was sacrificed as casually as LHO does not cross their minds, or at least it does not cross their keyboards.
John Pilger wrote:The alleged suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was part of an extremist group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, that thrived in Manchester and was cultivated and used by MI5 for more than 20 years.
Where is the evidence that
this 22-year-old boy, specifically, was even a
member of that group? (Much less that he was
a member so fanatical that he would sacrifice his own very young life for it and willingly go down in history as a mass-murderer of children.)
If I've missed that evidence, please point me to it. I say there is none. None whatsoever.
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