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| Manchester Bomber Met With ISIS Unit in Libya, Officials Say |
| 2017-06-05 |
| And nobody knew any of this stuff beforehand. [NYTIMES] The bomber who killed 22 people at a pop concert in Manchester, England, last month had met in Libya with members of an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... unit linked to the November 2015 Gay Paree terrorist attack, according to current and retired intelligence officials. The content of the communications between the attacker, Salman Abedi, and the terrorist cell remains unknown. But the possibility that he was directed or enabled by Islamic State operatives in Libya, as opposed to Syria, suggests that even as the group’s Middle East base is shrinking, at least one of its remote franchises is developing ways to continue attacks within Europe. On visits to 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... as well as to the coastal Libyan town of Sabratha, Mr. Abedi met with operatives of the Katibat al-Battar al-Libi, a core Islamic State unit that was headquartered in Syria before some of its members dispersed to Libya. Originally made up of Libyans who had gone to Syria to fight in the civil war, the unit became a magnet for French and Belgian imported muscle, and several were dispatched to carry out attacks abroad. Some of the terrorist group’s most devastating hits in Europe, including the coordinated attack in Gay Paree in 2015, were shaped by alumni of the brigade. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The Brits might want to check with Hillary on this; she had a lot to do with making this area in Libya fertile for ISIS. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-05 08:55 |