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2019-10-23 Britain
Manchester arena bomber’s brother denies murder
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hashem Abedi,
...on occasion spelt Hashim al-Obeidi...
the younger brother of the Manchester Arena jacket wallah, pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
Tuesday to 22 counts of murder in connection to the attack.

Salman Abedi
...one of the more notable members of the Manchester Libyan jihadi crowd. The parental generation ties back to the al-Qaeda-aligned Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the 1990s, while the kids pledged to the even more romantic ISIS. Not that it makes much difference in the end — the networks overlap personnel-wise, it’s just a matter of the name on the checking account paying their expenses...
detonated a boom jacket as fans began leaving a concert by US singer Ariana Grande in Manchester, northwest England, on May 22, 2017.

Twenty-two people were killed and 260 others were maimed.

Hashem Abedi appeared at the Old Bailey in London, England’s central criminal court.

Raised in Manchester, he traveled to Libya ahead of the attack. The 22-year-old was arrested in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
and extradited to Britannia in July this year.

He appeared in court wearing spectacles, a grey sweatshirt, and a burgundy t-shirt.

It took six minutes for him to register not guilty pleas to each of the 22 murder counts.

Abedi was remanded in jug at the top-security Belmarsh prison in southeast London.

His trial, expected to last up to eight weeks, was due to start in mid-November but was rescheduled to begin on January 13.

Posted by Fred 2019-10-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top
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