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Hashem Abedi is alleged to have claimed that Salam learnt to make bombs from the internet.Donald Trump has vowed to "get to the bottom" of US leaks over the Manchester bombing and said the culprit should be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law". Intelligence sharing with the US has resumed after fresh assurances were received.
NHS England urged 27 major trauma centres to prepare for a possible attack ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend - the first such warning to be issued since 2008.
Ssecurity services have foiled five attacks in the past two months since the Westminster attack, saying authorities are managing 500 active investigations - involving 3,000 subjects of interest at any one time.
Police hunting the network behind Abedi's attack disclosed they have made "significant" arrests and seized "very important" items in raids linked to the investigation. Eight people remain in custody.
Fears over 'second bomb' after police find huge chemical explosive cache and bomb factory in raid of Salman Abedi home. He may have built another device now in the hands of fellow jihadists using skills learnt in Libya.
Armed police officers are patrolling on board trains nationwide for the first time, in a bid to "disrupt and deter criminal activity" on the rail network after the UK terror threat level rose to critical.
Abedi flew from Dusseldorf to Manchester four days before the attack. It is now believed he was in transit on his way back from Istanbul. He had previously visited Frankfurt in 2015.
A man and a woman of Libyan origin were arrested Thursday morning in Withington, Manchester. They have three small children, and moved into the flat at least six months ago. According to neighbours the woman speaks little English and wears traditional religious clothing and the hijab.
The eight arrests described in chronological order
How the Manchester bomber was 'injured on the front line in Libya while fighting with jihadis in his gap year'
[DailyMail] Bomber Salman Abedi may have learnt to kill during the school summer holidays when his father took him to the 2011 Libyan uprising. While there he fell under the influence of a radical preacher named Abdul-Basit Ghwela, according to a US official.He returned to the front line in 2014 when he was hospitalised fighting alongside jihadis in Libya during his gap year, it was claimed last night. He was injured on the front line in Ajdabiya, eastern Libya, and taken to Turkey for treatment using a false passport, a source told the Mail. The incident is believed to have taken place in 2014, shortly after Abedi left Manchester College.
He later returned to study business management at Salford University, before dropping out and descending into a fanatical spiral that culminated in Monday’s atrocity.
Trustee of mosque ‘linked’ to Manchester bomber sent anti-Semitic tweets
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Turkey says no record of Manchester bomber travelling to Syria
[AlAhram] The suicide bomber who killed 22 people in Manchester passed through Istanbul on his way to Europe but there were no records of him entering Syria during his travels, Turkish security officials told Reuters on Thursday. They said Turkey received no warning from European countries about the bomber, Salman Abedi, so he was allowed to travel on to Europe.
Describing Abedi's movements before the attack, one official said: "There is flight traffic before his arrival to Europe. He travels first to Europe, then to a third country and then to Istanbul and back to Europe."
He said the "third country" was not Syria.
"He has not spent any time in Turkey (and) he has not had an entry or exit from Syria during his travels, there is no such information in his records," the official said.